Patrick Corrigan
Professor of Law
Office: 3164 Eck Hall of Law
Phone: 574-631-0730
Email: pcorrig3@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Mary Juckett
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Professor Patrick Corrigan’s research analyzes how laws and legal institutions shape capital markets and transactional structures, with a particular focus on issues related to initial public offerings and banking law. Corrigan has published or forthcoming work in the Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Journal of Legal Analysis, and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, among others. Professor Corrigan's article "Do the Securities Laws Work (and How)? Lessons from SPACs," originally published in the Washington University Law Review, was selected for republication into Corporate Practice Commentator and Securities Law Review 2025. Corrigan’s work has been cited in final orders by the Securities and Exchange Commission and featured in various media outlets.
Beginning with the Eleventh Edition, he became one of the co-authors of the Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials casebook (with Cox, Langevoort, & Lipton).
Corrigan is a Research Associate at the University of Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics; a Fellow in the Notre Dame Research Program on Law and Market Behavior; and a Fellow in the Notre Dame Program on Private Law.
Before coming to Notre Dame in 2019, Corrigan was the Wagner Fellow in Law & Business at NYU School of Law and NYU Stern School of Business. Corrigan practiced law in the general practice group at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City.
Corrigan earned a J.D. from New York University School of Law, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
Corrigan teaches Business Associations, Securities Regulation, and a seminar on Venture Capital financings and initial public offerings. Corrigan also teaches study-abroad versions of the latter two classes in London.
Areas of Expertise
- Initial Public Offerings
- Securities Law
- Corporation Law
- Banking and Banking Law