University of Rochester President Is
Leading Authority on Securities Law
Eastman Kodak Company said today that Joel Seligman, the President of
the University of Rochester, was named to the company's board of
directors, effective July 1, 2009.
Mr. Seligman, 59, became the 10th president of the University
of Rochester in December 2004, after serving as the Ethan A. H. Shepley
University Professor and Dean of the School of Law at Washington
University in St. Louis. Mr. Seligman is one of the nation’s leading
experts on securities law and is the co-author, with the late Louis Loss
and with Troy Paredes, of an 11-volume series titled Securities
Regulation, the leading treatise in the field. He is also the author
of The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and
Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance.
“As an international expert on securities law and corporate finance,
Joel brings to Kodak an exceptional understanding of complex financial
issues at a time of great change in global markets,” said Antonio M.
Perez, Kodak’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “The election of
Joel Seligman also deepens the mutual connection of the University and
Kodak to the community of Rochester. I am delighted to welcome Joel to
our board.”
A 1971 graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and a cum
laude graduate of Harvard University School of Law in 1974, Seligman
served on the law faculty of Northeastern University (1977-83), George
Washington University (1983-86), and the University of Michigan
(1986-95). He was named Dean of the University of Arizona College of Law
in 1995.
He also has served as reporter for the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Revision of Uniform Securities Act;
as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on
Market Information; and as a member of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants Professional Ethics Executive Committee. He
was a member of the board of the National Association of Securities
Dealers and is currently a member of the board of the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority.
He is the author or co-author of 20 books and over 40 articles on legal
issues related to securities and corporations. He is the co-author (with
John C. Coffee, Jr. of the Columbia University law school faculty and
Hilary Sale of the University of Iowa law school faculty) of the leading
casebook Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials and author of
the casebook Corporations: Cases and Materials.
With the previously announced retirement of Hector de J. Ruiz from
Kodak’s board, Seligman’s election brings the Kodak board membership to
12, only one of whom, Antonio Perez, is an employee of the company.
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