Harvey
J. Goldschmid is a former Commissioner at the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission. He is on leave from
the Columbia University School of Law, where he serves
as Dwight Professor of Law. 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. In 1998-99, Commissioner Goldschmid served
as General Counsel (chief legal officer) of the SEC, and
from January 1 to July 15, 2000, he was Special Senior
Advisor to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt.
Commissioner Goldschmid is the author of numerous publications
on corporate, securities, and antitrust law. He is a frequent
lecturer at national and international legal programs and
seminars. He received the 1999 Chairman's Award for Excellence
from the SEC, and several teaching awards, including Columbia
Law School's Willis L.M. Reese Award for Excellence in
Teaching in both 1996 and 1997.
From 1980-93, Commissioner Goldschmid served as a Reporter
for the American Law Institute's Corporate Governance Project.
From 2000-01, he served as Chair of the Nominating Committee,
and in 1998, completed a term as Treasurer and a member
of the Executive Committee (i.e., Board of Directors)
of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York,
where Commissioner Goldschmid previously served as Chair
of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Committee on Securities
Regulation, and Chair of the Committee on Antitrust and
Trade Regulation. He also has served as Chair of the Section
on Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the Association
of American Law Schools and as Founding Director of Columbia
University's Center for Law and Economic Studies. He served
in 1997-98 as a consultant to both the Federal Trade Commission
and the SEC, and during this period, was a member of the
Legal Advisory Committee (and Chair of its Subcommittee
on Corporate Governance) of the New York Stock Exchange.
Commissioner Goldschmid received his J.D., magna cum laude,
from the Columbia University School of Law in 1965 and
a B.A., also magna cum laude, from Columbia College in
1962. He was Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review
and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His publications include Cases
and Materials on Trade Regulation (5th ed. 2003) (with
Pitofsky and Wood); The Impact of the Modern Corporation (1984)
(with Bock, Millstein, and Scherer); Business Disclosure:
Government's Need to Know (1979); and Industrial
Concentration: The New Learning (1974) (with Mann
and Weston)
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