Julian Velasco

Associate Professor of Law

Office Number: 2113 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.4965
Fax: 574.631.8078
Email: jvelasco@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Gloria Krull

Julian Velasco joined the faculty in the fall of 2001 as an associate professor of law, and earned tenure in 2007. Prior to joining the Notre Dame Law School faculty, he served as an associate professor at the Hofstra University School of Law, practiced law as a corporate attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell, a New York City law firm, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York.

Professor Velasco received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was awarded the honors of Kent Scholar and Stone Scholar and served as an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He earned a B.S. magna cum laude from Georgetown University School of Business Administration, where he majored in Finance and minored in Philosophy and in Theology.

Professor Velasco’s primary teaching and research interests include corporate law and securities law.

In the News

• Featured Faculty on NDLS home page: Julian Velasco – March 2, 2009

LAW70101, Business Associations

LAW70107, Securities Regulation

LAW70123, Corporate Finance

LAW70127, Mergers and Acquisitions

LAW73125, Advanced Topics in Corporate Law (Seminar)

Faculty Expertise Areas

Teaching Interests:
Advanced Topics in Corporate Law
Business Associations
Corporate Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Securities Regulation

Research Interests:
Business & Corporate Law
Corporate Governance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Securities Regulation

Selected Scholarship

The Development of Fiduciary Duties in Corporate Law (work in progress).

The Role of Aspiration in Corporate Fiduciary Duties (draft).

How Many Fiduciary Duties Are There in Corporate Law?, 83 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1231 (2010).

Shareholder Ownership and Primacy, 2010 U. Ill. L. Rev. 897 (2010).

Taking Shareholder Rights Seriously, 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 605 (2007).

The Fundamental Rights of the Shareholder, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 407 (2006).

Structural Bias and the Need for Substantive Review, 82 Wash. U.L.Q. 821 (2004), reprinted in 47 Corp. Prac. Commentator 679 (2005).

Just Do It: An Antidote to the Poison Pill, 52 Emory L.J. 849 (2003).

The Enduring Illegitimacy of the Poison Pill, 27 J. Corp. L. 381 (2002).

Congressional Control Over Federal Court Jurisdiction: A Defense of the Traditional View, 46 Cath. U. L. Rev. 671 (1997).

Note, The Copyrightability of Nonliteral Elements of Computer Programs, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 242 (1994), reprinted in 27 Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 329 (1995).