David L. Ratner

David L. Ratner is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of San Francisco School of Law. From 1982 to 1999, he was a Professor of Law at that school, specializing in corporation and securities law. He also served as Dean of the school from 1982 to 1989. From 1964 to 1982, he was a member of the faculty of Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York. Prior to that, he practiced law for eight years with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1952, and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1955, where he was Article Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

From 1966 to 1968, Professor Ratner served as Executive Assistant to Manuel F. Cohen, Chairman of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and from 1971 to 1973 he served as Chief Counsel to the Securities Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in its Study of the Securities Markets.

Professor Ratner is the author of Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2003) (with Hazen), Institutional Investors:Teaching Materials (1978), and Securities Regulation in a Nutshell (7th ed. 2002), as well as a number of articles in law reviews and other publications. He was a visiting professor of law at Stanford University in fall 1974, at Arizona State University in spring 1974, at the University of San Francisco in fall 1980, at Georgetown University in the 1989-90 school year, and at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in fall 1992. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Monash University (Australia) in spring 1981. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Larkspur Planning Commission.