Frederick Tung

Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law and Business

Frederick Tung researches and teaches in the areas of corporate and securities law and bankruptcy, both domestic and international.  He has served as a consultant on corporate and commercial law reform for the Ministry of Justice in Ethiopia, the Center for Commercial Law and Economics in Indonesia, and the California Law Revision Commission.  He has also served as a lecturer in the law department at Peking University.  Before entering law teaching, Professor Tung clerked for the Honorable Stanley A. Weigel in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, and then practiced corporate and bankruptcy law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Professor Tung's recent scholarship includes "Leverage in the Board Room:  The Unsung Influence of Private Lenders in Corporate Governance," forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review, and "What Else Matters for Corporate Governance?: The Case of Bank Monitoring, in the Boston University Law Review. Other scholarship has appeared in the Northwestern University Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Wisconsin Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of International Law, among others.

Professor Tung has been a permanent blogger with the popular corporate law blog Conglomerate.  He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate degree with honors from Cornell University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.

Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law and Business. J.D. Harvard Law School. A.B., Cornell University.