Alexander I. Platt
- Earl B. Shurtz Research Professor of Law
- Director, Polsinelli Transactional Law Center
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Biography —
Alex Platt is an expert in securities regulation. His articles have been published in the Stanford Law Review and other leading journals; selected by scholars in the field as among the Top Ten Best Corporate and Securities Articles of the year; featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and other outlets; and cited by several SEC Commissioners.
Before joining KU, Platt was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Platt received his B.A., magna cum laude, in Philosophy and Political Science from Columbia University, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, he clerked for judges Stephen F. Williams (D.C. Cir.) and Royce C. Lamberth (D.D.C.) and practiced for four years at a leading law firm in Washington, D.C.
Education —
Yale Law Journal Articles Editor
magna cum laude
Teaching —
Contracts, Securities Regulation, Business Organizations, Due Diligence in Business Transactions
Admitted
New York 2013; District of Columbia (retired) 2014; U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and the Southern District of New York 2018; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Fourth Circuit 2017; U.S. Court of Federal Claims 2017.
Career History
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, 2018-2020; Associate, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, 2013-2014 and 2015-2018; Law Clerk, Hon. Royce Lamberth (D.D.C.), 2012-2013; Law Clerk, Hon. Stephen F. Williams (D.C. Cir.), 2014-2015.
Clerkships
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Washington, D.C., Law Clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams, 2014 – 2015
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., Law Clerk for Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth, 2012 – 2013
Selected Publications —
- Rethinking the IPO Bureaucracy, Berkeley Bus. L.J. (forthcoming 2025) (ILEP Symposium)
- The Administrative Origins of Mandatory Disclosure, 49 J. Corp. L. 1143 (2024) (Voted Top 10 Corporate & Securities Law Articles of 2024, Corporate Practice Commentator)
- The Whistleblower Industrial Complex, 40 Yale J. Reg. 688 (2023) (reprinted at 2024 Sec. L. Rev. §6.1)
- Unicorniphobia, 13 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 116 (2023)
- Beyond “Market Transparency”: Investor Disclosure and Corporate Governance, 74 Stan. L. Rev. 1393 (2022)