Michael Bradley is the F.M. Kirby Professor of Investment Banking at the Fuqua School of Business and Professor of Law at Duke University. From 1985 to 1995 he he was the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Finance and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. Professor Bradley received his Ph.D. in economics and finance from the University of Chicago and has served on the faculties of the Universities of Chicago and Rochester.
Professor Bradley's research interests lie at the intersection of corporate finance and corporate law. He has published papers on corporate capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, takeover defenses and tactics, government regulation of the securities market, insider trading, fiduciary duties of corporate managers, corporate governance and corporate bankruptcy. He has taught courses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and corporate law to MBA students, law students and executives.
Professor Bradley has testified in some of the most important cases involving corporate governance issues. These cases include Household (poison pill), Freuhauf (managerial behavior in control contests), CTS (Control Shares Acquistion Statutes) and Westpoint Pepperill (Merger Moriorium Statutes).
Professor Bradley's research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Business, and the law reviews of Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Iowa Universities. He has testified before the Senate Banking Committee, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Council of Institutional Investors and has presented the results of his research in numerous academic forums. His work has been cited in textbooks, professional journals and the decisions of numerous state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.