Jeffrey J. Haas practiced corporate and securities law, with a
primary focus on public offerings and mergers & acquisitions,
at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Latham & Watkins in New York
City prior to joining the faculty at New York Law School in 1996.
At NYLS, Professor Haas teaches courses in mutual fund regulation,
securities law, mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance,
corporations and contracts. His scholarly articles have appeared in
the Southern California Law Review, the Michigan Law
Review, the Emory Law Review and the University
of Pennsylvania Law Review, among others. He has also
co-authored the books INVESTMENT ADVISER REGULATION IN A NUTSHELL
(Thomson West 2008) and CORPORATE FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE: CASES,
MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS FOR AN ADVANCED COURSE IN CORPORATIONS
(Carolina Academic Press 2006) and authored CORPORATE FINANCE IN A
NUTSHELL (Thomson West 2nd Ed. 2011). Professor Haas currently
serves on the Board of Trustees for the American Independence
family of mutual funds and previously served on the Board of
Trustees of the HSBC family of mutual funds. Professor Haas
received his B.S. summa cum laude from Florida State
University and his J.D. cum laude from the University of
Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a comment editor on the law
review.