Brandeis University, AB 1964
Columbia University, JD 1967
Office: 28 Cargill Hall
Mail: 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373-3919
Fax: (617) 373-5056
E-mail: d.phillips@neu.edu
David M. Phillips
Professor Phillips has written extensively in the areas of business ethics, foreign trade and investment, commercial law, corporations, the Uniform Commercial Code, the role of legal scholarship and law schools in developing nations and foreign legal systems, and federal restrictions on aviation and foreign investment.
Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty, Professor Phillips was a Fulbright scholar and lecturer at Seoul National University Graduate School of Law, a fellow of the International Legal Center and a consultant to the US Cultural Attache to the Republic of Korea and the Agency for International Development. Professor Phillips served as a co-reporter of a Boston Bar Association project to revise the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law. The revised statute was passed and signed into law, effective July 2004. He teaches in the areas of corporate and business law.
- “The Unexplored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State,” 25 Penn State International Law Review, 2007.
- From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial, Trials, Challenging the Media, the Law and the Academy, ed., with Kaufman, Herman and Ross. Valentine Mitchell, 2006.
- “Corporate Law and the Gaza Pullout,” New York Sun, Dec. 31, 2004.
- “Corporate Gifts Should Be Disclosed” (with Bohnen), 14 The Chronicle of Philanthropy 39, March 21, 2002.
- “Management Lessons That Could Teach McKinsey & Co,” The Forward, June 15, 2001.
- “Secured Credit and Bankruptcy: A Call for the Federalization of Personal Property Security Law,” 50 Law and Contemporary Problems 53, 1987.
- “Foreign Investment in United States Communications” (with Jost), Manual of Foreign Investment in the United States. Marans et al, eds. Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1984.
- “Products Liability of Successor Corporations: A Corporate and Commercial Law Perspective,” 11 Hofstra Law Review 249, 1982.
- “Restraints on Foreign Investment in the Merchant Marine - An Asset or Liability to United States Interests?” 11 Cornell International Law Journal 1, 1978.
