Biography

Elizabeth Pollman joined Stanford Law School as a teaching fellow in 2009 and as a fellow with the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance in 2011.

Her scholarship examines various topics in business law, particularly corporate rights and the legal consequences of corporate identity. Her publications include Reconceiving Corporate Personhood (forthcoming, Utah Law Review) and Citizens Not United: The Lack of Stockholder Voluntariness in Corporate Political Speech, 119 Yale Law Journal Online 53 (2009). Her current works in progress examine whether corporations have a constitutional right to privacy and the public/private company distinction with the advent of new trading platforms for private company shares.

Prior to joining the law school, Pollman was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. Her diverse practice experience includes corporate transactional and litigation work. She clerked for the Honorable Judge Raymond C. Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated from Stanford Law School in 2005. Before law school, Pollman received her undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Stanford University and worked at a newspaper start-up and on an anthropology publication.

Fields of Interest

Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Securities Law, Venture Capital, and Negotiation.

Key Works

• Terrill Pollman, Judith M. Stinson, Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Elizabeth Pollman, Legal Writing: Examples & Explanations, Frederick, Md.: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2011.
• Elizabeth Pollman, Reconceiving Corporate Personhood, SSRN working paper series / Utah Law Review, forthcoming 2011.
• Citizens Not United: The Lack of Stockholder Voluntariness in Corporate Political Speech, 119 Yale Law Journal Online 53 (2009).
• Strengthening Special Committees, 9 U.C. DAVIS BUS. L.J. 137 (2009).
• Global Futures: The Game, in HISTORIES OF THE FUTURE (with A. Tsing) (Daniel Rosenberg et al. eds., Duke Univ. Press 2005).
• Arbitration, Consent and Contractual Theory: The Implications of EEOC v. Waffle House (with J. Dodge), 8 HARV. NEGOT. L. REV. 289 (2003).

Publications & Cases

• Terrill Pollman, Judith M. Stinson, Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Elizabeth Pollman, Legal Writing: Examples & Explanations, Frederick, Md.: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2011.
• Elizabeth Pollman, Reconceiving Corporate Personhood, SSRN working paper series / Utah Law Review, forthcoming 2011.
• Citizens Not United: The Lack of Stockholder Voluntariness in Corporate Political Speech, 119 Yale Law Journal Online 53 (2009).
• Strengthening Special Committees, 9 U.C. DAVIS BUS. L.J. 137 (2009).
• Global Futures: The Game, in HISTORIES OF THE FUTURE (with A. Tsing) (Daniel Rosenberg et al. eds., Duke Univ. Press 2005).
• Arbitration, Consent and Contractual Theory: The Implications of EEOC v. Waffle House (with J. Dodge), 8 HARV. NEGOT. L. REV. 289 (2003).