James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law. B.S. 1966, Arizona State University; J.D. 1969, University of California San Francisco, College of the Law; LL.M. 1971, Harvard University. Professor Cox is a native of Kansas. He entered law teaching as a fellow at Boston University and has since taught at the University of San Francisco, Stanford, and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, before coming to Duke in 1979. He has focused his writing and teaching in the areas of corporate and securities law and is the author of a book on the utilization of financial information in the regulation of public corporations, a multi-volume treatise on corporate law (4th Ed. 2024), and casebooks on securities regulations (10th ed. 2022) and business organizations (13th ed. 2024).
He spent the spring of 1989 as a senior Fulbright research fellow at the University of Sydney. He was a former member of the New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee, the NASD Legal Advisory Board, the ABA Committee on Corporate Laws, the ABA Committee of Corporate Laws, the California Corporations, Committee, the Drafting Committee for N.C. Corporations and Non-Profit Corporation, and the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
He was the draftsman for the capital market laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2001, Professor Cox was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Mercature from the University of South Denmark.
