Biography

Brian JM Quinn '03 (MLS '01) joined Stanford Law School as a teaching fellow in 2005. He is responsible for all aspects of the Corporate Governance & Practice LLM Program, including student advising and teaching. Quinn's research focuses on corporate law, the structuring of transactions, and private ordering.

Before joining the law school, Quinn was an associate at Cooley Godward in Palo Alto, where he represented public and private technology clients in merger and acquisitions transactions. Quinn has served as a country coordinator for the Harvard Institute for International Development, managing Harvard’s Vietnam-based teaching and research activities, and also worked as a legislative aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He holds an MPP from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Quinn will be joining the faculty of Boston College Law School in the autumn of 2008.

Publications

• “Asset Specific Investment and the Case of the @Home Corporation," "Are Go Shops No Shops?" and with Vu T. Anh, "Social Capital and Contracting for Fruit in the Mekong Delta" (in progress)
• "Bulletproof: Mandatory Rules for Deal Protection," 32 Journal of Corporation Law (June 2007)
• "Vietnam’s Continuing Legal Reform: Gaining Control over the Courts," 4 Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal (June 2003)
• “Legal Reform and Its Context in Vietnam,” 15 Columbia Journal of Asian Law (Spring 2002)

Field of Interest/Expertise

• Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Deals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Contracts, Legal Reform in Transition Countries

Education

• BSFS, Georgetown University
• MPP, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
• JD, MLS, Stanford Law School

Employment

• Legislative Aide, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1990—1992
• Country Coordinator (Vietnam), Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University, 1994—2000
• Associate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cooley Godward LLP, 2003—2005

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Economics Association

Courses

• Corporate Governance & Practice Seminar
• Corporate Governance and Fraud

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Corporate Governance and Practice Seminar

Publications & Cases

• Brian J.M. Quinn and Tu Anh Vu Thanh, Private Ordering and the Structure of Fruit Markets in the Mekong Delta, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 357 (April 2008).
• Brian J.M. Quinn, Asset Specificity and Transaction Structures: A Case Study of @Home Corporation V23, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 354 (March 2008).