• Antitrust and Trade Regulation
• Seminar in Nonprofit Institutions
• Corporations (covers state corporate law and federal securities regulation)
• Seminar in the Corporation in Modern Society (advanced issues in corporate law and securities regulation)

Education:

• Columbia University School of Law 1965, magna cum laude
• Columbia College, B.A., 1962, magna cum laude

Detailed Biography:

Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia University. He has served as Dwight Professor since 1984, and was an Assistant Professor (1970-71), an Associate Professor (1971-73), and a Professor of Law (1973-84) at Columbia. From 2002-05, Professor Goldschmid served as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and in 1998-99, he was the SEC's General Counsel (chief legal officer); from January 1 to July 15, 2000, he was Special Senior Advisor to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt. In 1997-98, Professor Goldschmid was a consultant on antitrust policy to the Federal Trade Commission, and in 1995-96, was a member of the FTC's Task Force on High Tech/Innovation Issues. He now serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Greenwall Foundation, as a Public Governor and Chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as a Director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, as a Director of Transparency International-USA, and on the Governing Board of the Center for Audit Quality. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Yale’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, on the PCAOB Advisory Council, and on the International Advisory Board of the Israel Securities Authority.

Recent Publications:

Case and Materials on Trade Regulation (5th ed. 2003) (with Pitofsky and Wood); The Impact of the Modern Corporation (1984) (with Bock, Millstein, and Scherer); The SEC at 70: Let's Celebrate Its Reinvigorated Golden Years, 80 Notre Dame L. Rev. 825 (2005); Foreword to Enforcement and Corporate Governance: Three Views, Global Corporate Governance Forum (2005); and The Myth of Absolute Confidentiality and the Complexity of the Counseling Task (The Orison S. Marden Lecture), 58 A.B. Rec. 306 (2003).