Associate Professor of Law. (Antitrust; Bankruptcy; Commercial Law; Corporate Finance; Law and Economics.) Keith Sharfman earned a B.A. in economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then was an associate at Latham & Watkins in New York. Before joining the Rutgers-Newark faculty, Professor Sharfman was visiting assistant professor of law and John M. Olin Fellow at Cornell Law School. Professor Sharfman's scholarship was recognized in 2004 with
his appointment as Philip Shuchman Scholar and in 2006 with his selection as an
American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow by the National Conference of Bankruptcy
Judges. His publications include "Contractual Valuation Mechanisms and Corporate Law," 2 Virginia Law & Business Review 53 (2007); "The Law and Economics of Hoarding," 19 Loyola Consumer Law Review 179 (2006); "Judicial Valuation Behavior: Some
Evidence from Bankruptcy," 32 Florida State University Law Review
387 (2005); "Derivative Suits in Bankruptcy," 10 Stanford Journal
of Law, Business & Finance 1 (2004) (lead article); "Creditor[s'
Committee] Derivative Suits: A Reply to Professor Bussel," 10 Stanford
Journal of Law, Business & Finance 38 (2004); "Valuation
Averaging: A New Procedure for Resolving Valuation Disputes," 88 Minnesota
Law Review 357 (2003) [reprinted at 19-2 Commercial Damages Reporter
1 (2004)]; "Is It Ever Too Late for Innocence?," 64 University of
Pittsburgh Law Review 263 (2003) (with George C. Thomas et al.); "The
First Economic Analyst of Law?," 6 Green Bag 2d 99 (2002); "The
Economic Expert Witness," 3 Green Bag 2d 297 (2000) (with Merton H.
Miller); and "Regulating Cyberactivity Disclosures: A Contractarian
Approach," 1996 University of Chicago Legal Forum 639.
