Peter Molk
John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Professor
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Email:
pmolk@law.ufl.edu
Phone:
(352) 273-0878
Expertise
About
Professor Molk’s research focuses on issues of organizational choice and design, law and finance, and insurance law. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation, 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 graduated with a JD and MA in economics from Yale University, where he received the prize for the best paper in law and economics and was an Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy and a Kauffman Fellow in Law, Economics, and Entrepreneurship. After law school, he clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Education
JD, Yale Law School
MA, Yale University
BA, Amherst College
Courses
- Contracts
- Insurance Law
- Unincorporated Business Enterprises
Publications
- Where Nonprofits Incorporate and Why It Matters, 108 Iowa L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2023)
- The Long-Term Effects of Short Selling and Negative Activism, 2022 U. Ill. L. Rev. (forthcoming, with Frank Portnoy)
- Delaware’s Dominance and the Future of Organizational Law, 55 Ga. L. Rev. 1111 (2021)
- The Challenges of Nonprofit Governance, 62 B.C. L. Rev. 197 (2021, with D. Daniel Sokol)
- Uncorporate Insider Trading, 104 Minn. L. Rev. 1693 (2020)
- Negative Activism, 97 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1333 (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)