Professor Edward Rock is the Professor of Law at NYU and his main areas of teaching and research are corporate law and corporate governance. In his 50 or so articles, he has written about poison pills, politics and corporate law, hedge funds, corporate voting, proxy access, corporate federalism and mergers and acquisitions, among other things. 
 
In addition to teaching and research, he is also the director of NYU’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance and the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Corporate Governance. 
 
He was a visiting professor at Columbia and at Hebrew University, where he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar.