Peterhouse

BA (Harvard), MS, Juris Doctorate (Columbia)

University Lecturer; Deputy Director, 3CL; Deputy Director of the LL.M. Course

Corporate law, insolvency law, corporate governance law, international insolvency law, and comparative law.

Jodie Adams Kirshner is a University Lecturer in Corporate Law, a fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge and the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law.  She has completed research fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Cambridge Centre for Business Research as a Fulbright Scholar, the London Business School Centre for Corporate Governance, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany.  She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and graduate degrees from Columbia University in New York.  As a practicing lawyer, she served as a federal judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and worked as a litigator at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.  She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has recently been named a Fellow of the Center for Law, Economics and Finance at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. (based on her empirical work on the Societas Europaea).  She spends time regularly at Columbia Law School as a Scholar in Residence.