Barclift, Z. Jill

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Barclift, Z. Jill

Associate Professor
Email: zbarclift@hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2357

J.D., Columbia University School of Law (1983)
Human Rights Law Review (1982-83)
B.S., Northwestern University (1980)

Areas of legal expertise: Corporate/business law, governance, and corporate/legal ethics.

Recent courses taught: Corporations, securities regulation, corporate finance, seminar – business law and ethics.

View Professor Barclift's research: SSRN Author Page -- Z. Jill Barclift

Professor Barclift brings more than 15 years of corporate law experience to Hamline. After graduating from Columbia University School of Law in 1983, she worked as in-house counsel to a variety of financial service companies. Prior to teaching at Hamline University School of Law, she was executive vice president, secretary and general counsel of a financial services company in Minneapolis. Her practice areas included corporate law, governance, corporate disclosures, negotiation of corporate purchase and sale of assets, and financial services.

Publications

Codes of Ethics and State Fiduciary Duties: Where is the Line?, 1 J. BUS., ENTREPRENEURSHIP & L. 237 (2008).
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Corporate Governance and CEO Domination, 50 WASHBURN L. J. 611 (2011).

Corporate Responsibility: Ensuring Independent Judgment of the General Counsel - A Look at Stock Options, 81 N. DAKOTA L. REV. 1 (2005).
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Fuzzy Logic and Corporate Governance Theories, 6 PIERCE L. REV. 177 (2007).
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Governance in the Public Corporation of the Future: The Battle for Control of Corporate Governance, 15 CHAP. L. REV. 1 (2011).

Preventive Law: A Strategy for Internal Corporate Lawyers to Advise Managers of their Ethical Obligations, 33 J. LEGAL PROF. 31 (2008).
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Scheme Liability and Common Law Fraud under State Law: Holding Corporate Officers and their Co-Conspirators Accountable to Shareholders, 26 T.M. COOLEY L. REV. (2009).

Senior Corporate Officers and the Duty of Candor: Do the CEO and the CFO Have a Duty to Inform, 41 VALP. U. L. REV. 269 (2007).
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Too Big to Fail, Too Big Not to Know: Financial Firms and Corporate Social Responsibility, 25 St. John's J. of Civ. Rights and Econ. Devel. (2011).