Lisa M. Fairfax is the Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Professor Fairfax teaches courses in the business area including Corporations, a Securities Law Seminar, and Contracts II. Prior to joining the GW law faculty, Professor Fairfax was a Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law Program at the University of Maryland School of Law, and was voted “Teacher of the Year” by the Maryland law school students. Before entering academia, Professor Fairfax practiced corporate law with the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston and the District of Columbia. Her practice included venture capital transactions, public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Fairfax graduated from Harvard Law School and Harvard College with honors.
Paul Schiff Berman is the Walter S. Cox Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Professor Berman graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and earned his law degree from New York University School of Law. During law school, he served as Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review and received the University Graduation Prize for the graduating law student with the highest cumulative grade point average. He later clerked for Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.