Peter Molk

About

Professor Molk’s research focuses on issues of business law and organizational choice, as well as insurance law. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Iowa Law Review, among others, and it has been selected for presentation at the Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. He teaches contracts, securities regulation, corporations, and insurance.

Molk received his JD and MA in economics from Yale University and his BA from Amherst College. While at Yale Law School, he was articles editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Molk’s scholarly contributions to law and economics were recognized throughout law school. He was both an Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy and a Kauffman Fellow in Law, Economics, and Entrepreneurship. He also received the Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. prize for the best paper in law and economics.

Following law school, Molk clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has also worked as a valuation consultant on antitrust and energy matters. Prior to joining the University of Florida in 2018, Molk was an assistant professor at Willamette University and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois.

Education

JD, Yale Law School
MA, Yale University
BA, Amherst College

Selected Publications

• Uncorporate Insider Trading, 104 Minn. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2020)
• Negative Activism, 97 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2020, with Barbara Bliss and Frank Partnoy)
• Institutional Investors as Short Sellers?, 99 B.U. L. Rev. 837 (2019, with Frank Partnoy)
• Protecting LLC Owners While Preserving LLC Flexibility, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 2129 (2018)
• Playing with Fire?  Testing Moral Hazard in Homeowners Insurance Valued Policies, 2018 Utah L. Rev. 347
• How Do LLC Owners Contract Around Default Statutory Protections?, 42 J. Corp. L. 503  (2017)