J.W. Verret

About

J.W. Verret received his JD and MA in public policy from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, respectively, in 2006. While in law school, Professor Verret served an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics at the Harvard Program on Corporate Governance under the guidance of Professor Lucian Bebchuk.

Professor Verret then served as a law clerk for Vice-Chancellor John W. Noble of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Before joining the faculty at Mason Law, Professor Verret was an associate in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Defense Practice Group at Skadden, Arps in Washington, DC. He has written extensively on corporate law topics, including a recent paper, "Delaware's Guidance," cowritten with Chief Justice Myron T. Steele of the Delaware Supreme Court. His academic work has been featured in the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Business Lawyer, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, and the Virginia Law and Business Review. Professor Verret was recently selected by the Northwestern Law School Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth for a 2009–2010 Searle-Kaufmann Research Fellowship.