Elizabeth Pollman

Bio

Elizabeth Pollman is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (as of January 2020), previously at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.  She teaches and writes on a wide variety of topics in business law, with a particular focus in her scholarship on corporate governance, purpose, and personhood, as well as startups, entrepreneurship, and law and technology.  She has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Sydney Law School and UC Berkeley School of Law, and served as a fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. Before teaching, she practiced as a transactional lawyer and business litigator at Latham & Watkins in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. She clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned both her B.A. and J.D., with distinction, from Stanford University.