Professor Cathy Hwang, University of Utah Law School
Professor Hwang’s research centers on business law, including mergers and acquisitions, deal structuring, and deal contracting. Recent works include Deal Momentum, forthcoming in UCLA Law Review, Unbundled Bargains: Multi-agreement Contracting in Complex Mergers and Acquisitions, published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and The Value of Uncertainty, published in the Northwestern University Law Review (reprinted from the Northwestern University Law Review Online).
Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Professor Hwang was the resident academic fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, a joint initiative of Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining the legal academy, Professor Hwang practiced as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York.
Professor Hwang received her undergraduate degree in economics and international relations from Pomona College, and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was managing editor of the Chicago Journal of International Law. She teaches Business Organizations and Mergers and Acquisitions.
