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James D. Cox
Professor Cox joined the faculty of the School of Law at Duke in 1979 where he specializes in the areas of corporate and
securities law. Prior to moving to Durham, he taught at the law schools of Boston University, the University of San
Francisco, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and Stanford. During the 1988-89 academic year he was
a Senior Research Fulbright Fellow at the University of Sydney. Professor Cox earned his B.S. from Arizona State University
and law degrees at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
In addition to his texts Financial Information, Accounting and the Law; Cox and Hazen on Corporations; and Securities
Regulations Cases and Materials (with Hillman & Langevoort), Professor Cox has published extensively in the areas of market
regulation and corporate governance as well as having testified before the U.S. House and Senate on insider trading, class
actions, and market reform issues. The Corporations treatise won the Association of American Publishers National Book Award
for Best New Professional/Scholarly Legal Book for 1995. He served as a member of the corporate law drafting committees in
California (1977-80) and North Carolina (1984-93) and presently is a member of the ABA Business Law Section's Committee on
Corporate Laws.
Professor Cox is a member of the American Law Institute and ABA Committee on Corporate Laws and a past member of the NYSE
Legal Advisory Committee, the NASD Legal Advisory Board, and the Fulbright Law Discipline Review Committee. In 2001 he was
awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Mercature from the University of Southern Denmark for his work in international securities
law.
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