David A. Westbrook LOUIS A . DEL COTTO PROFESSOR CO - DIREC TOR OF THE NE W YORK CIT Y PROGR A M IN FINANCE AND L AW JD, Harvard Law School BA, Emory University
(716) 645-2490
The last few years have been
dwestbro@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
Those People [May Yet Be] a Kind of
GLOBALIZATION AND THE CONTEMPORARY
Solution: Late Imperial Thoughts on
CORPORATIONS AND CAPITAL MARKETS
the Humanization of Officialdom
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND TECHNOLOGY
(with Mark Maguire), 67 Buffalo
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIAL THEORY
Law Review 889 (2019).
especially collaborative, lots of
Unicorns, Guardians, and the
learning from others as I worry the same old questions, and try to make worthy things. Blessed by conversations, I’m obliged
BOOKS
Concentration of the U.S. Equity Markets
Getting Through Security:
(with Amy Deen Westbrook), 96(3)
Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy,
Nebraska Law Review 688 (2018).
and a Sense of the Modern (with
to leave out many dear friends
Mark Maguire) (Routledge Press, 2020).
and important interlocutors,
CHAPTERS Climbing to 10 to the 11th: Globalization,
but for examples, Amy Deen Westbrook and I have written law review articles on the significance of developments in the equity markets and
ARTICLES
Digitization, Shareholder Capitalism
Foreword, Symposium: Serious Fun:
and the Summits of Contemporary
A conference with & around Schlegel!,
Wealth, in The Inequality Crisis
69(1) Buffalo Law Review 1 (2021).
151 (Edward Fullbrook & Jamie Morgan eds., World Economics
corporate governance for
Social Capitalism: A Descriptive
our understanding of this
Association Books, 2020).
Sketch, 194 Telos 27 (2021).
commercial society. Mark
Magical Contracts, Numinous
Maguire and I just finished a book on counterterrorism, bureaucracy, and “security” as a key to understanding
The Public Problem With
Capitalism, in Magical Capitalism
Counterterrorism (with Mark
45 (Brian Moeran & Timothy Malefyt,
Maguire), Sapiens (Sept. 2020).
eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) (substantially revised from the article).
contemporary life, and not
Security by Design: Counterterrorism
incidentally the bureaucratic
at the Airport, 12:3 Anthropology
state. Computer scientist Perry
Now 122 (2020).
Alexander has introduced me to a bunch of folks who
Snapchat’s Gift: Equity Culture in
are struggling with what
High-Tech Firms (with Amy Deen
‘computing’ means. Economics,
Westbrook), 46 Florida State
politics, and technology all
University Law Review 861 (2019).
seem to be changing what it means to live now, except when they do not. More available at davidawestbrook.com.”
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