Professor of Law
B.A., Economics and International Relations, Johns Hopkins
J.D., University of Chicago
Fellow, American Bankruptcy Law Journal
Keith Sharfman teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust,
bankruptcy, commercial law, corporate finance, corporate
reorganization, law and economics, and legal valuation. He received
a B.A. in economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins
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, where he worked on a wide range of
antitrust, bankruptcy, corporate finance, and intellectual property
matters.
For more than a decade, Professor Sharfman has published
extensively in a variety of scholarly journals. His articles
include “Contractual Valuation Mechanisms and Corporate Law,” 2
Virginia Law & Business Review 53 (2007); “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);
“Valuation Averaging: A New Procedure for Resolving Valuation
Disputes,” 88 Minnesota Law Review 357 (2003); and “Is It Ever Too
Late for Innocence?,” 64 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 263
(2003) (with George C. Thomas et al.).
In recognition of his scholarship, the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges selected Professor Sharfman in 2006 as an
American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow, and in 2007 he became a
member of the Journal’s editorial advisory board.