Portrait of Mohsen Manesh

Mohsen Manesh

Mr. & Mrs. L.L. Stewart Professor of Business Law | Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Programs | Faculty Director, Portland Program
Law, Law-JD, Business Law
mohsen@uoregon.edu
Office: 2800 NE Liberty St, Portland Campus, Portland OR 97211
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Biography

Mohsen Manesh is the Mr. & Mrs. L.L. Stewart Professor of Business Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research & Programs at the University of Oregon School of Law. His scholarship on corporate, contract, and LLC law has been cited in leading casebooks and more than 40 court decisions, including the Delaware Supreme Court, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. His articles have appeared in the N.Y.U. Law Review, Boston College Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Florida State University Law Review, and the Journal of Corporation Law, among others. He is a frequent contributor to the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, and his opinion writing has appeared in Bloomberg Law, Law360, and The Hill.

At Oregon Law, Professor Manesh teaches core business courses covering corporations, LLCs, securities regulation, contracts, and mergers & acquisitions. He has received the Orlando J. Hollis Faculty Teaching Award, the law school's highest teaching honor, and the University of Oregon's Herman Award for Outstanding Online Education.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Manesh practiced corporate finance and business transactions at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Seattle, representing clients from venture-backed start-ups to publicly traded corporations. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University, where he was named to the Order of the Coif and served as notes editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, and his B.S. in industrial engineering summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas.

Publications:

 
A New Cardinal Precept in Corporate Law, 86 La. L. Rev.  1 (2025).
 
Still Abandoned, 79 Bus. Law.  1085 (2025) (co-authored with Joseph A. Grundfest).
 
 
The Corporate Contract and Shareholder Arbitration, 98 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1106 (2023) (co-authored with Joseph A. Grundfest).
 
Abandoned and Split But Never Reversed: Borak and Federal Court Derivative Litigation, 78 Bus. Law. 1047 (2023) (co-authored with Joseph A. Grundfest).
 
 
The Contested Edges of Internal Affairs, 87 Tenn. L. Rev. 251 (2020).
 
Fiduciary Principles in Unincorporated Entity Law, in The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller, and Robert H. Sitkoff, eds., Oxford University Press, 2019).
 
 
Creatures of Contract: A Half-Truth about LLCs, 42 Del. J. Corp. L. 391 (2018).
 
 
Equity in LLC Law?, 44 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 93 (2016).
 
Dictum in Alternative Entity Jurisprudence and the Expansion of Judicial Power in Delaware, in Research Handbook on Partnerships, LLCs and Alternative Forms of Business Organizations (2015).
 
Nearing 30, Is Revlon Showing its Age?, 71 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 107 (2014).
 
 
 
 
 
 
Legal Asymmetry and the End of Corporate Law, 34 Del. J. Corp. L. 465 (2009).
 
The Immorality of Theft, The Amorality of Infringement, 2006 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 5.
 
Indeterminacy and Self Enforcement: A Defense of Delaware's Approach to Director Independence in Derivative Litigation, 6 J. Bus. & Sec. L. 177 (2006).