University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Gordon Smith was voted Chair-Elect of the Business Associations Section of the Association of American Law Schools at the Association’s annual meeting in January 2006.

Smith specializes in corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial businesses and venture capital. He joined the University of Wisconsin's law faculty in 2002 and is Associate Director of INSITE - the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship. INSITE is an interdisciplinary group within the University of Wisconsin whose mission entails developing innovative and competitive research programs to expand the contributions of entrepreneurship and technology into the wealth of related research already present on the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus.

In 2004, he published (with Professor Cynthia Williams of the University of Illinois College of Law) the innovative casebook Business Organizations: Cases, Problems & Case Studies (Aspen Publishers). In addition Professor Smith is currently working on the first law school casebook on The Law of Entrepreneurial Finance (with Professor Larry Garvin of the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University).

The Association of American Law Schools is the principal representative of legal education to the federal government, other national higher education organizations and learned societies, and international law schools.

Submitted by on January 19, 2006

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