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Tina L. Stark Professor in the Practice of Law and Executive Director, Center for Transactional Law and Practice Tina L. Stark is a Professor in the Practice of Law and the Executive Director of Emory’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice. The Center was established in 2007 to focus on the business and legal aspects of transactional law and skills. Professor Stark is an internationally recognized authority on contract drafting and the teaching of transactional skills and has written extensively on these topics. She is the author of the textbook Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do and the editor-in-chief and co-author of Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate. A noted educator of both lawyers and law students, Professor Stark has been teaching transactional law and skills since 1989. Professor Stark speaks frequently on drafting, transactional skills, the intersection of law and business, and boilerplate in contracts. She has lectured at programs in the United States, Canada, England, Italy, China, and Poland. In addition, she has served as a consultant to an English law school in connection with its creation of a transactional and business curriculum. After graduating from Brown University with honors, Professor Stark was a commercial banker at Irving Trust Company. She then attended New York University School of Law where she was a contributing editor to the Journal of International Law & Politics. Professor Stark clerked for Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1982. Following her clerkship, Professor Stark was an associate at Barrett Smith Schapiro Simon & Armstrong. She was a corporate partner at Chadbourne & Parke LLP from 1988 until 1993. While there, she had a broad-based transactional practice, including acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and financings. In addition, she developed and implemented the firm’s corporate training program. Professor Stark was appointed as a member of the Professional Education Project by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye of the New York State Court of Appeals. The PEJ studied the legal education curriculum in New York State and recommended, among other things, that continuing legal education become mandatory in New York. Currently, Professor Stark is co-chair of the Business Law Education Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. Before joining the Emory faculty, Professor Stark was an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School for fourteen years. She taught courses on drafting, transactional skills, and business. In addition, through her business, she taught continuing legal education courses at the major law firms in North America, Europe, and Asia. Education: A.B., Brown University, 1975; J.D., New York University School of Law, 1980.
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