Caleb Griffin

Professor Caleb Griffin is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. His research focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, and tech regulation. A major theme of his research is the study of incentive effects in complex systems. His recent work includes proposals for democratizing the modern corporate governance system as well as novel regulatory approaches for large technology platforms.

Professor Griffin's scholarship has been featured or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, BYU Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, and his work has been featured on the Columbia Blue Sky Blog, the Oxford Business Law Blog, Bloomberg Law, and Institutional Investor. He is a board member at Citizen Shareholders International, a London-based nonprofit, and he serves as the Chair of the Stakeholder Engagement Subcommittee at the American Bar Association.

Professor Griffin teaches Contracts, Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Corporate Governance. Before joining the University of Arkansas, Professor Griffin served as a professor at law schools in Tennessee and Virginia, where he received multiple teaching awards. Before entering academia, Professor Griffin practiced corporate law at the firm of Vinson & Elkins. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

Education

• J.D. Harvard Law School
• B.B.A. Oklahoma Christian University

Companies

• Assistant Professor Of Law University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville (2021)
• Assistant Professor Of Law Belmont University College of Law (2019 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor Regent University School of Law (2016 — 2019)
• Associate Vinson & Elkins (2014 — 2016)
• J.D. Candidate Harvard Law School (2011 — 2014)
• Summer Associate Vinson and Elkins (2013 — 2013)