Z. Jill Barclift
Associate ProfessorEmail: 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.
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 an attorney with a large Midwest financial services firm. Professor Barclift came to Minnesota in 1996 to head the law department of a bank spin-off of a large retailer. Prior to teaching at Hamline University School of Law she was executive vice president, secretary and general counsel of a financial services firm in Minneapolis. Her practice areas included corporate law, governance, corporate disclosures, and negotiation of corporate purchase and sale of assets.
Z. Jill Barclift Promoted to Associate Professor of Law
Selected Publications
- Senior Corporate Officers and the Duty of Candor: Do the CEO and the CFO Have a Duty to Inform, 41 Valipariso University Law Review 269 (2007) PDF
- Preventive Law: A Strategy for Internal Corporate Lawyers to Advise Managers of their Ethical Obligations, 33 Journal of the Legal Profession (2008) (forthcoming).
- Codes of Ethics and State Fiduciary Duties: Where is the Line?, 1 J. BUS., ENTREPRENEURSHIP & L. 237 (2008). Online Text
- Fuzzy Logic and Corporate Governance Theories, 6 Pierce Law Review 177 (2007) PDF
- Corporate Responsibility: Ensuring Independent Judgment of the General Counsel - A Look at Stock Options, 81 North Dakota Law Review 1 (2005) PDF