Professor of Law
B.A., City College of New York; J.D., Columbia.

Assistant: Nicky McMillan

Phone: 9461

Biography

Professor Haft teaches Corporations, Comparative Corporate Law, and Securities Regulation at the Law Center, and is the author of several articles and books in the corporate and securities law field. Following his graduation from Columbia School of Law in 1954, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman. He then spent four years as an associate with Goldstein, Judd & Gurfein, fourteen years as a partner of Stamer & Haft, and four years as a partner with Kronish, Lieb, Shainswit, Weiner and Hellman. He served as Special Counsel (full-time) to the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1977-78 and, after joining the Law Center faculty in 1978, remained as a part-time consultant to the SEC until 1981. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee of the ABA and the Executive Council of the Securities Law Committee of the FBA. He has been a Visiting Professor at various foreign law schools, including the Sorbonne (Paris I), Cambridge (Jesus College), and the European University Institute in Florence.