G. Marcus Cole
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Marcus Cole is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Professor Cole received a B.S. in 1989 from Cornell University and a J.D. in 1993 from Northwestern University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business. He served as law clerk to Judge Morris Sheppard Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and practiced law with the Chicago law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1997, where he teaches bankruptcy, contracts, venture capital, and other commercial law courses. Professor Cole has published articles on various topics ranging from bankruptcy law to the law and economics of venture capital investment. His publications include A Calculus Without Consent: Mass Tort Bankruptcies, Future Claimants, and the Problem of Third Party Non-Debtor 'Discharge'; The Federalist Cost of Bankruptcy Exemption Reform; Limiting Liability Through Bankruptcy; "Delaware is Not a State:" Are We Witnessing Jurisdictional Competition in Bankruptcy; Limiting Liability Through Bankruptcy; and The Venture Capital Investment Bust: Did Agency Costs Play a Role? Was it Something Lawyers Helped Structure? Professor Cole is also a member of the editorial board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, published by the Cato Institute, and Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section Committee on Bankruptcy.