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Da Lin

Associate Professor of Law
Curriculum Vitae

  • Profile
    Da Lin is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Richmond, where she teaches and writes about corporate governance, securities regulation, and financial regulation. Before coming to Richmond, Professor Lin taught as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where she was a recipient of the HLS Student Government Teaching and Advising Award and the Women’s Law Association’s “Shatter the Ceiling” Award for Excellence in Mentorship. At Richmond, she teaches Business Associations, Securities Regulation, and Corporate Governance.

    Professor Lin’s research seeks to empirically assess the realities of corporate and financial ecosystems to enhance our regulation of them. Her article, Beyond Beholden, was selected by scholars in the field as among the Top Ten Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2021. She has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and presented to the Delaware Court of Chancery on current topics in corporate governance and bank regulation.
    Professor Lin received her A.B. and S.M. in applied mathematics from Harvard University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. After graduation, she clerked for Judge R. Lanier Anderson III on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced at King & Spalding LLP. Before law school, she worked as a research analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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    • Presentations

      "Roundtable: Developments in the Law of Entire Fairness in Delaware," Roundtable: Developments in the Law of Entire Fairness in Delaware, American College of Governance Counsel (November 2023)

      "How Deals Die," University of Richmond Faculty & Staff Research Symposium, University of Richmond (September 2023)

      "How Deals Die," Junior Faculty Forum, University of Richmond School of Law (May 2023)

      "Holding Executives Accountable After Recent Bank Failures," Holding Executives Accountable After Recent Bank Failures, United States Senate Committee On. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (May 2023)

      "How Deals Die," Tulane Corporate and Securities Roundtable , Tulane Law School and the Murphy Institute (March 2023)

      "How Deals Die," Temple University Beasley School of Law Faculty Colloquium, Temple University Beasley School of Law (March 2023)

      "How Deals Die," NYU/Penn Conference on Law & Finance, The University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics, Wharton’s Financial Institutions Center, and NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business (February 2023)

      "The Banker Removal Power," Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Legal Division Workshop, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (February 2023)

      Presenter, "How Deals Die," Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Virginia School of Law and Society for Empirical Legal Studies (November 2022)

      "Controlling Shareholders," Delaware Court of Chancery's Retreat, (October 2021)

      Panelist, "The Banker Removal Power," Wharton Conference on Financial Regulation, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (April 2021)

      Presenter, "The Banker Removal Power," Financial Regulation, Boston University (April 2021)

      Panelist, "Fireside Chat," University of Richmond Law Review Symposium: Corporate & Securities Law in the Time of the Coronavirus, University of Richmond Law Review (March 2021)

      Presenter, "The Banker Removal Power," Becoming a Law Professor, Harvard Law School (February 2021)

      Presenter, "The Banker Removal Power," Wake Forest Faculty Workshop, Wake Forest University School of Law (February 2021)

      Presenter, "The Banker Removal Power," Washington and Lee Faculty Workshop, Washington and Lee University School of Law (February 2021)

      Presenter, "The Next Post-Crisis Financial Reform," AALS 2021 Annual Meeting, AALS (January 2021)

      Presenter, "The Banker Removal Power," National Business Law Scholars Conference, (June 2020)

      Presenter, "Becoming a Law Professor," Harvard Law School (February 2020)

      Commentator, "Complexity, Bounded Managerial Rationality, and the Shareholder Primacy Doctrine," Rethinking the Shareholder Franchise, University of Wisconsin Law School (September 2019)

    • Bar Admissions

      Georgia

    • Professional Experience

      Associate Professor of Law (2023 - present)
      University of Richmond School of Law

      Assistant Professor of Law (2019 - 2023)
      University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA

      Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law (2015 - 2019)
      Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

      Associate, Healthcare Group (2014 - 2015)
      King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA

      Law Clerk, the Hon. R. Lanier Anderson III (2013 - 2014)
      U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Macon, GA

      Research Associate, Research Group (2009 - 2010)
      Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY

  • Publications
    Journal Articles

    The Banker Removal Power, 108 Virginia Law Review 1 (with Lev Menand) (2022).

    Beyond Beholden, 44 The Journal of Corporation Law 515 (2019).

    Bank Recapitalizations: A Comparative Perspective, 50 Harvard Journal on Legislation 513 (2013).

    Blog Posts

    Why Shareholder Primacy Persists, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (May 2021).

    Corporate Law Can No Longer Ignore Shareholder Heterogeneity, Jotwell | The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (May 2020).

    Janus and Public Pension Funds, Harvard Law Review Blog (September 2018).

    Missing Data and Anti-Discrimination Laws, Harvard Law Review Blog (April 2018).

  • In the News

    Virginia Governor Northam Announces Administration Appointments (STL News)
    Wed., Sep. 30, 2020

    States Must Act to Cut Auto Insurance Rates During COVID-19 (Law 360)
    Fri., May. 8, 2020