Professor Pinto is co-director of The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of
International Business Law. His area of expertise is in United States and comparative
corporate law, which he has explored in his writings and having served as the National
Reporter for the Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He has been a
visiting lecturer on American corporate and securities law at LUISS University in Rome,
and serves on the editorial board of the International and Comparative Law Journal. He is
the co-author of Understanding Corporate Law (2d ed. 2004) (with D. Branson), the
co-editor of The Legal Basis of Comparative Corporate Governance in Publicly Held
Corporations (1998), and author of several law review articles. He has been a visiting
professor at New York University and George Washington Law School. Prior to joining the
faculty in 1983, Professor Pinto taught at Seton Hall University School of Law and was an
associate with the firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He is the director of the Law
School's Summer Abroad Programs.

Articles

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The European Union's Shareholder Voting Rights Directive from an American Perspective: Some Comparisons and Observations (forthcoming), 32 Fordham Int'l L.J. _ (2008)
 

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Control and Responsibility of Credit Rating Agencies in the United States, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. Sup. 341 (2006)
 

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Globalization and the Study of Comparative Corporate Governance [Symposium: Economic Globalization and Corporate Governance], 23 Wis. Int’l. L. J. 477 (reprinted in Corporate Governance and Globalization (T. Clarke & M. dela Rama eds. 2006)) (2005)
 

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Corporate Governance: Monitoring the Board of Directors in American Corporations, 46 Am. J. Comp. L. 317 (Supp. 1998) (1998)
 
"Paramount Takeover, Junkan Shoji Homu (Commercial Law Review) (1994)
 

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Books

Understanding Corporate Law (with Douglas M. Branson) (2004)
 
Understanding Corporate Law (with Douglas M. Branson) (1999)
 
The Legal Basis of Corporate Governance in Publicly Held Corporations: A Comparative Approach (with Gustavo Visentini) (1998)
 

Contributions to Books

The United States of America, Corporate Law: An International Overview (1993)
 
American Corporate Law and the Publicly Traded Corporations, The Legal Basis of Corporate Governance in Publicly-held Corporations: A Comparative Approach (1988)
 
Directors' Conflicts of Interest, Handbook for Corporate Directors (1985)