BU Law Congratulates David Webber, Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Professor of Law

The promotion acknowledges Webber’s dedication to teaching and key contributions to legal scholarship.

Boston University School of Law congratulates Professor of Law David Webber, who has been awarded tenure and promoted to full professor by Boston University. The University’s actions follow a rigorous process of evaluation of Webber’s achievements in teaching, research, and service to the School and University, and his contributions to the field of law.

Webber teaches JD courses in the areas of securities regulation, shareholder activism, and civil procedure. His research spans a range of corporate law areas including fiduciary duties, shareholder activism, corporate governance, and shareholder litigation, and his publications have been cited by courts and academics. He has organized several conferences and events such as the Third Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation.

Professor Webber has been a speaker at numerous academic as well as practitioner-oriented conferences and has testified about pension governance issues in California and New Hampshire. He has presented his research at the Harvard-Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies and the American Law and Economics Association conference, to name a few.

Professor Webber is under contract with Harvard University Press for a book about shareholder activism, and is also co-editing a book about shareholder litigation. His prior scholarship has been anthologized in publications such as Securities Law Review and Corporate Practice Commentator, and he has published articles in the New York University Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and the Journal of Corporation Law. Recent publications include “Shareholder Litigation Without Class Actions,” in the Arizona Law Review (2015) and “The Use and Abuse of Labor’s Capital,” in the New York University Law Review (2014).

Professor Webber holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Columbia University and a JD from New York University School of Law where he was a Leonard Wagner Fellow in Law & Business before joining BU Law’s faculty in 2010. He has been an editor for NYU Law Review in the past and has written editorials for the Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Reuters, and others.

“We are proud to recognize Professor Webber’s exceptional commitment to scholarship and his students,” says Dean Maureen O’Rourke. “I look forward to working with him in what will undoubtedly be an exemplary career.”

Reported by Indira Priyadarshini (COM’16).