Lawrence E. Mitchell
Lawrence E. Mitchell is the author of The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (2007) and Corporate Irresponsibility: America's Newest Export (2001). He is Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law at The George Washington University, where he has taught for almost 20 years. Professor Mitchell has written extensively on matters of corporate governance, law, and ethics, among other things, and is a founder of the Progressive Corporate Law school, named after his 1995 anthology, Progressive Corporate Law. A graduate of Williams College and Columbia University Law School, Professor Mitchell practiced corporate law in New York from 1981 to 1987.