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Seth C. Oranburg is a Professor of Law and scholar of corporate governance, securities regulation, and digital assets. He has authored eight books and over fifty publications, testified before federal commissions, and writes regular commentary in national outlets including Bloomberg Law and the Washington Reporter.

Seth C. Oranburg is a three-time award-winning Professor of Law whose research examines how legal rules create and destroy governance in organizations, markets, and civil society. His scholarship spans corporate law, securities regulation, contracts, trade secrets, and digital assets. He has published in the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy, the Louisiana Law Review, the Mercer Law Review, and Bloomberg Law, with forthcoming articles in the Dartmouth Law Review and the Review of Banking & Financial Law at Boston University. He has authored eight books. Before becoming a professor, Oranburg practiced venture finance and emerging-company law at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley and antitrust law at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in Washington, DC. He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and magna cum laude from the University of Florida. He is licensed in New Hampshire, California, and the District of Columbia.

Seth C. Oranburg is a Professor of Law and a three-time teaching-award recipient whose work examines how law creates, supports, and destroys governance in organizations, markets, and civil society. His current scholarship clusters around four areas: digital asset regulation (including stablecoin policy and the CLARITY Act framework for token classification), corporate governance (including Delaware corporate law reform and the social-media-and-corporate-power problem), university governance (the sovereign-charities framework, identity-based exclusion at elite institutions), and trade secret valuation.

Oranburg has published in the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy, the Louisiana Law Review, the Mercer Law Review, and Bloomberg Law, with forthcoming articles in the Dartmouth Law Review and the Review of Banking & Financial Law at Boston University. He writes regular op-eds for the Washington Reporter, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller, Daily Signal, and other outlets. He has testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and serves as Commissioner on the New Hampshire Commission to Study Stable Tokens. He directs the Program on Organizations, Business and Markets at the NYU Classical Liberal Institute and chairs the Law Faculty Section of the Academic Engagement Network.

His books include Contract Law: Rules, Cases, and Problems, Protecting Trade Secrets, A History of Financial Technology and Regulation, and the forthcoming Aspen treatise Business Associations: Law in Theory and Practice. Before becoming a professor, Oranburg practiced venture finance and emerging-company law at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley and antitrust law at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in Washington, DC. He holds a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Florida.