Adam C. Pritchard, the Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law, teaches corporate and securities law. He is the author of Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis and Securities Regulation: The Essentials (both with Stephen J. Choi). His research focuses on securities class actions, securities arbitration, and the history of securities law in the U.S. Supreme Court. His articles have appeared in Business Lawyer, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, and various law reviews. Prof. Pritchard holds BA and JD degrees from the University of Virginia, as well as an MPP from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. While at Virginia, he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and served as articles development editor of the Virginia Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. After working in private practice, Prof. Pritchard served as senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the SEC, where he wrote appellate briefs and studied the effect of recent reforms in the areas of securities fraud litigation. He received the SEC's Law and Policy Award for his work in United States v. O'Hagan, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the misappropriation theory of insider trading. Prof. Pritchard has been a visiting professor at the Northwestern University School of Law, the Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Iowa School of Law. He also has been a visiting scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission and a visiting fellow in capital market studies at the Cato Institute. He currently serves as a member of the FINRA National Adjudicatory Council and the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel.