Steve Thel
Wormser Professor of Law
Steve Thel is the I. Maurice Wormser Professor of Law at Fordham University, where he focuses on the areas of contracts, corporate law, investment management and securities regulation. He is the co-author, with the late Edward Yorio of Fordham Law School, of Contract Enforcement: Specific Enforcement and Injunctions (2011) and, with Harvey E. Bines, of Investment Management Law and Regulation (Aspen 2004). He has also published articles in various academic and professional journals, including the Business Lawyer, the Journal of Corporation Law, the Cornell, Fordham, Michigan, New York University, North Carolina, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Virginia and William & Mary Law Reviews, and the Hastings, Ohio State, and Yale Law Journals. He has taught at the Columbia, Cornell, Mississippi and New York University Law Schools as well as at Fordham.
Education
- Harvard Law School (JD 1979)
- North Texas State University (BA 1976)
Representative Publications
Contract Enforcement: Specific Performance and Injunctions (with Edward Yorio) (Aspen 2011 and annual supplements)
Investment Management Law & Regulation (with Harvey Bines) (Aspen 2004 and annual supplements)
Contra Proferentem and the Role of the Jury in Contract Interpretation (with Ethan Leib), 87 TEMPLE L. REV. * (forthcoming)
Taking Section 10(b) Seriously: The Criminal Enforcement of SEC Rules, 2014 COLUM. BUS. L. REV. 1You DO Have to Keep Your Promises: A Disgorgement Theory of Contract Remedies (with Peter Siegelman), 52 WM. & MARY L. REV. 327 (2011)
Willfulness versus Expectation: An Efficient Screen for Efficient Breach, in Fault in American Contract Law (with Peter Siegelman) (Cambridge University Press 2010) (book chapter)
Willfulness versus Expectation: A Promisor-Based Defense of Willful Breach Doctrine (with Peter Siegelman), 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1517 (2009)
Free Writing, 33 J. Corp. L. 941 (2008) (reprinted in 41 Sec. L. Rev. 144 (2009))
Of Equal Wrongs and Half Rights (with Gideon Parchamovsky & Peter Siegelman), 82 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 738 (2007)
Statutory Findings and the Regulation of Insider Trading, 50 Vand. L. Rev. 1091 (1997), reprinted in 30 Sec. L. Rev. 603 (1998)
The Regulation of Investment Management Arrangements as Securities (with Harvey Bines), 58 Ohio St. L. J. 459 (1997)
Section 12(2) of the Securities Act: Does Old Legislation Matter? 63 Fordham L. Rev. 1183 (1995)
$850,000 in 6 Minutes--The Mechanics of Securities Manipulation, 79 Cornell L. Rev. 219 (1994), reprinted in 27 Sec. L. Rev. 119 (1995)
The Promissory Basis of Past Consideration (with Edward Yorio), 78 Va. L. Rev. 1045 (1992)
The Promissory Basis of Section 90 (with Edward Yorio), 101 Yale L.J. 111 (1991), reprinted in Modern American Contract Law (translated into Japanese), and reprinted in part in A Contracts Anthology, and in Foundations of Contract Law, and in Perspectives on Contract Law
The Genius of Section 16: Regulating the Management of Publicly Held Companies, 42 Hastings L.J. 391 (1991)
The Original Conception of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, 42 Stan. L. Rev. 385 (1990), reprinted in 23 Sec. L. Rev. 85 (1991)
Section 20(d) of the Securities Exchange Act: Congress, the Supreme Court, the SEC and the Process of Defining Insider Trading, 69 N.C.L. Rev. 1261 (1991)
Review of Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership by Alan Bromberg & Larry Ribstein, 45 Bus. Law. 1381 (1990)
Closing a Loophole: Insider Trading in Standardized Options, 16 Fordham Urb. L.J. 573 (1989)
Securities Law, Fifth Circuit Symposium, 34 Loy. L. Rev. 1029 (1989)
Regulation of Manipulation Under Section 10(b): Security Prices and the Text of the Securities Exchange Act, 1988 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 359