Peter Molk
John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Professor
Professor of Law
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
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
- Business ASsociations
- Securities Regulation
Publications
Recent Publications
- Negative Trading in Congress, 100 Ind. L.J. (forthcoming 2025) (with Frank Partnoy)
- Discretionary Investing by ‘Passive’ S&P 500 Funds, 41 Yale J. Reg. 248 (2024) (with Adriana Robertson)
- Where Nonprofits Incorporate and Why It Matters, 108 Iowa L. Rev. 1781 (2023)
- The Long-Term Effects of Short Selling and Negative Activism, 2022 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1 (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)