Peter B. Oh

Professor Oh writes and teaches in the areas of Agency & Partnership, Business Organizations, Corporate Finance, Law & Economics, and Securities Regulation. His research examines corporate phenomena utilizing interdisciplinary methods from economics, finance, and statistics, as well as intradisciplinary tools from public and private law. Professor Oh’s articles have been published in prominent journals, such as the Journal of Corporation Law, Tulane Law Review, and Wake Forest Law Review; and cited in judicial opinions. He is currently undertaking a comprehensive empirical analysis of the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil within the United Kingdom and the United States.

Professor Oh received his B.A. in Philosophy and Ethics, Politics & Economics from Yale University, and his J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School, where he served as a member of the Law Review. He was a law firm associate in New York City for a number of years before entering academe. He currently serves as the faculty advisor for the Journal of Law and Commerce as well as the J.D./M.B.A. programs with the University of Pittsburgh Katz School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business.

Currently Teaching

• Law and Economics Seminar (Fall 08)
• Business Organizations (Spring 09)
• Agency & Partnership (Spring 09)

Courses Previously Taught

• Corporate Finance
• Securities Regulation

Selected Publications

Work in Progress:

• Veil-Piercing
• Piercing v. Lifting

Scholarly Articles:

• The Dutch Auction Myth, 42 Wake Forest Law Review 853 (2007).
• A View of the Dutch IPO Cathedral, 2 Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal 615 (2007) (Symposium Keynote Address)
• Tracing, 80 Tulane Law Review 849 (2006).
• Gatekeeping, 29 Journal of Corporation Law 735 (2004).
• A Jurisdictional Approach to Collapsing Corporate Distinctions, 55 Rutgers Law Review 389 (2003).