Kevin A. Kordana
Professor of Law
Kevin A. Kordana joined the faculty in 1996 as an associate professor of law. He teaches contracts, corporations and nonprofit organizations. His other teaching and research interests include bankruptcy and law and economics.
Kordana is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was a symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal and an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. He received the Olin Prize for the best paper in law and economics, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Upon graduation from law school, Kordana clerked for Chief Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California and George Washington University law schools.
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