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Urska Velikonja

Assistant Professor of Law

Phone: (410) 706-4253
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E-mail:
uvelikonja @ law.umaryland.edu

Office: 231

LLB, 2002, University of Ljubljana
LLM, 2003, Harvard Law School
JD, 2009, Harvard Law School, magna cum laude

Curriculum Vitae


Biography | Selected Publications | In the News

Urska Velikonja joins the School of Law after clerking for the Honorable Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Her current research interests include corporate law and corporate malfeasance. She has authored or co-authored more than a dozen articles about alternative dispute resolution, corporate governance, freedom of expression and the right to privacy. After completing her LLB, with honors, at the University of Ljublanja School of Law, she clerked and practiced at an international firm in Ljublanja before coming to the United States to earn her JD. At Harvard, Professor Velikonja served as Senior Editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and Article Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. In addition, Velikonja was a Teaching Fellow for the Harvard Economics Department and a Post-Graduate Research Fellow at Harvard Law. In 2009 she was selected as one of two O’Connor Fellows at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she taught a corporate law seminar.

Articles

The Politics of Board Independence, 92 North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2014).

The Cost of Securities Fraud, 54 William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming 2013). [Full Text]

Leverage, Sanctions, and Deterrence of Accounting Fraud, 44 U.C. Davis Law Review 1281 (2011). [Full Text]

Negotiating Executive Compensation in Lieu of Regulation, 25 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 621 (2010). [Full Text]

Making Peace and Making Money: Economic Analysis of the Market for Mediators in Private Practice, 72 Albany Law Review 257 (2009). [Full Text]

The Costs of Multiple Gestation Pregnancies in Assisted Reproduction, 32 Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, 463 (2009). [Full Text]

Corporate Governance of State-owned Enterprises, in Corporate Governance in Slovenia 113 (Katarina Zajc ed., 2004).

Recent News featuring Urska Velikonja

February 22, 2013

Urska Velikonja, an assistant professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, is quoted in the Baltimore Business Journal story "Legg Mason splits CEO and chair duties with power shift."



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