Larry E. Ribstein
Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair

Phone: 217-244-9881 Email: ribstein@law.uiuc.edu B.A. Johns Hopkins University J.D. University of Chicago Law School Courses Business Organizations Market Regulation Unincorporated Business and Securities Vita Low Resolution Photo (~550k jpg) High Resolution Photo (~2Mb jpg)		Professor Larry E. Ribstein is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law. Professor Ribstein is the author of leading treatises on limited liability companies (Ribstein & Keatinge on Limited Liability Companies), partnership law (Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnerships) and limited liability partnerships (Bromberg & Ribstein on LLPs), as well as two business associations casebooks (Unincorporated Business Entities and Ribstein & Letsou, Business Associations). Professor Ribstein is the co-author, with Henry Butler, of The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle and The Constitution and the Corporation. From 1998-2001 he was co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. Ribstein has written or co-authored approximately 120 articles on subjects including corporate, securities and partnership law, constitutional law, bankruptcy, film, the internet, family law, professional ethics and licensing, uniform laws, choice of law and jurisdictional competition. His articles during the past year have focused on Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate social responsibility, fiduciary duties in partnerships, fiduciary duties of corporate directors, the history of corporate and partnership law, the implications of behavioral finance for securities regulation, journalism and the portrayal of business in film. Ribstein's article, Are Partners Fiduciaries? was selected by a vote of corporate and securities laws scholars as one of the best articles of 2005. Ribstein's blog site focusing on business law is Ideoblog and his webpage is http://www.ribstein.org/.