Professor Afsharipour Elected to American Society of Comparative Law Executive Committee

Professor Afra Afsharipour has been elected to the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. She will serve a two-year term.

Founded in 1951, the ASCL is the leading organization devoted to the comparative study of legal systems and traditions. It consists of about 100 institutional sponsor members, in the U.S. and abroad, along with individual members, and publishes the American Journal of Comparative Law. 

Afsharipour has published widely on comparative corporate governance, with a focus on corporate governance in India.  Most recently, she was an invited contributor to Board-Shareholder Dialogue Policy Debate, Legal Constraints and Best Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2024), edited by Professors Luca Enriques (University of Oxford) and Giovanni Strampelli (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan). The book featured contributions from top corporate law and corporate governance scholars from the world's leading academic institutions to provide analysis of key corporate governance topics. 

Afsharipour is co-editor of Comparative Corporate Governance (with Martin Gelter, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2021). She authored the Handbook on Corporate Governance in India: Legal Standards and Board Practices (The Conference Board, 2016) and co-authored the 2021 edition of the handbook. In 2023, she was named a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. 

Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law Afra Afsharipour’s areas of research include corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, transactional law, and the legal profession. From 2018-2024, she served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Her scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and UC Davis Law Review, among other leading publications.