Edward Rock is a professor of law at New York University (NYU) School of Law where he teaches corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and a variety of other courses. He is also the director of NYU's Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance. Prior to these appointments, he was the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Mr. Rock has also taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University, New York, and Hebrew University, Israel. He publishes widely on various issues in corporate law and corporate governance, including the role of hedge funds, the intricacies of corporate voting, corporate governance politics, and has consulted for a variety of government agencies and law firms. Mr. Rock is one of the authors of "The Anatomy of Corporate Law", a widely used text on comparative corporate law. He started his career as a plaintiff side class action lawyer specializing in antitrust and shareholder class actions. He holds a B.S. in physics and mathematics from Yale University, a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford, UK, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.