The Indiana University Maurer School of Law will add to its faculty ranks this fall with the arrival of corporate law and governance Professor Aneil Kovvali.
Kovvali, currently a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, will bolster a nationally recognized business and corporate law program in Bloomington.
“It’s an amazing intellectual community,” Kovvali said of his decision to join Indiana Law. “The faculty includes leading experts in a broad range of important fields, and it’s also a faculty that is willing and eager to try unconventional approaches and consider new ideas.”
Kovvali graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2012, going on to clerk for Judge Christopher F. Droney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He served as a litigation associate with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz from 2014 to 2020 before joining the University of Chicago Law School.
“We’re excited to welcome Aneil and his family to the Law School this summer,” said Dean Austen Parrish. “He’s a fast-rising superstar in the area of business and corporate law.”
Having taught the last two years at the University of Chicago and with published or forthcoming pieces in journals including the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Review, Kovvali comes to the Law School with significant scholarly and teaching credentials.
“Aneil is exactly the type of dedicated and thoughtful scholar, who cares deeply about the community and his students, that we look for to join the Law School. He’s a fabulous addition to our innovative scholarly community,” Dean Parrish said.
Kovvali will teach corporations and corporate finance in the 2022-2023 academic year, and he said he’s eager to begin working with Maurer students.
“There’s a wonderful dynamic between students and professors at Maurer,” he said. “Legal education works best when it’s a two-way street. You need students who are passionate about learning and developing, and you need professors invested in helping students grow. That dynamic doesn’t just happen automatically, but it’s clear that students and faculty at Maurer have it, and continue to work at it.”
Kovvali said he’s also looking forward to exploring the many cultural amenities of Bloomington when he and his family arrive over the summer.
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