Darian Ibrahim
Assistant Professor of Law
E-mail: dibrahim@wisc.edu
Education:
J.D., Cornell Law School (1999)
B.S., Clemson University (1996, Chemical Engineering)
Teaching Areas:
Business Organizations/Corporations
Law and Entrepreneurship
Securities Regulation
Biography
Darian Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He specializes in corporate and securities law and its application to entrepreneurial activity. He is particularly interested in the legal and economic issues involved in financing rapid-growth start-up companies, which he examines in recent work on angel investors, venture debt, and the geography of entrepreneurship. Professor Ibrahim's work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Arizona Law Review, and several other journals.
At Wisconsin, Professor Ibrahim teaches courses in business associations, securities regulation, law & entrepreneurship, and corporate governance. He has also taught courses in contracts and business planning. Professor Ibrahim was previously on the faculty at the University of Arizona, where he was voted Teacher of the Year by the law school student body. At Arizona, he also co-created and co-directed the Business/Law Exchange, an innovative collaboration between the law school and business school focused on entrepreneurship education.
Professor Ibrahim earned a J.D. magna cum laude from Cornell Law School and a B.S. magna cum laude in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University. At Cornell, Professor Ibrahim was Articles Editor of the Cornell Law Review, Order of the Coif, and a recipient of the Fredric H. Weisberg Prize for Constitutional Law. He was a corporate summer associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York and a corporate associate at Troutman Sanders in Atlanta, where he represented clients in mergers & acquisitions and the private placement of securities. He also clerked for Chief Justice Norman S. Fletcher of the Georgia Supreme Court.
Recent Articles:
Debt as Venture Capital, 2010 U. Ill. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming)
Financing the Next Silicon Valley, 87 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2010)
The (Not So) Puzzling Behavior of Angel Investors, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1405 (2008)
Individual or Collective Liability for Corporate Directors?, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 929 (2008)
Entrepreneurs on Horseback: Reflections on the Organization of Law (with D. Gordon Smith), 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 71 (2008)
