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Carol Swanson

Professor
Email: cswanson@gw.hamline.edu
Phone: cswanson@gw.hamline.edu

A.B., Bowdoin College
J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law

"Making complex business topics come alive is the challenge and joy of teaching. Professional success flows naturally from doing what you love, and the classroom experience should spark that enthusiasm in students planning to practice in the corporate and commercial fields."

Business law is Professor Swanson's area of expertise. Having spent eight years in private and public law practice, she left her business litigation position as a partner with a large Minneapolis law firm to join the Hamline faculty. Swanson launched her legal career at Sullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street firm where she litigated business and products liability matters before moving to Minnesota in 1984 to serve as assistant U.S. attorney.

As a law student, she was articles editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, receiving the "best note" award for her writing on British anticompetitive trade practices. Professor Swanson sits on the board of directors for Minnesota Continuing Legal Education. She regularly publishes in the business law area with a particular focus on corporate issues.

Professor Swanson serves as faculty advisor for the Corporate Law concentration and the Business Law Association. Her courses include Business Associations, Contracts, Antitrust, Securities Regulation, and diverse seminar topics such as corporate governance, business torts, and takeovers.

Selected Publications

  • Insider Trading Madness: Rule 10b5-1 and the Death of Scienter, 52 U. KAN. L. REV. 147 (2003); reprinted in 37 SEC. L. REV. 478 (2005). PDF
  • Antitrust Excitement in the New Millennium: Microsoft, Mergers, and More, 54 OKLA. L. REV. 285 (2001). PDF
  • Unconscionable Quandary: UCC Article 2 and the Unconscionability Doctrine, 31 N.M. L. REV. 359 (2001). PDF
  • Reinventing Insider Trading: The Supreme Court Misappropriates the Misappropriation Theory, 32 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 1157 (1997). PDF
  • The Turn in Takeovers: A Study in Public Appeasement and Unstoppable Capitalism, 30 GA. L. REV. 943 (1996). PDF
  • Corporate Governance: Sliding Seamlessly into the Twenty-First Century, 21 J. CORP. L. 417 (1996). PDF
  • Juggling Shareholder Rights and Strike Suits in Derivative Litigation: The ALI Drops the Ball, 77 MINN. L. REV. 1339 (1993). PDF

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