


Cox then directed Highway in 2002 and Wonderland in 2003. His short film Atomic Tabasco (which he made while a student at New York University) received an honorable mention at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and a Bronze Medal at the 1999 Student Academy Awards. from Arizona State University and law degrees at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.James Cox (born February 5, 1975) is an American film director. During the 1988-89 academic year he was a Senior Research Fulbright Fellow at the University of Sydney.

He served as a member of the corporate law drafting committees in California (1977-80) and North Carolina (1984-93).Ĭox joined the Duke Law faculty in 1979 after teaching at the law schools of Boston University, the University of San Francisco, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and Stanford. Cox and Hazen on Corporations won the Association of American Publishers National Book Award for Best New Professional/Scholarly Legal Book for 1995. In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Mercature from the University of Southern Denmark for his work in international securities law. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Standing Advisory Group for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. In 2009, he was appointed to the Bipartisan Policy Center's credit rating agency task force and most recently was a member of the Center’s Capital Market Task Force. House and Senate on insider trading, class actions, and market reform issues.Ĭox’s memberships have included the American Law Institute, the ABA Committee on Corporate Laws, the NYSE Legal Advisory Committee, the NASD Legal Advisory Board, and the Fulbright Law Discipline Review Committee.

In addition to his texts, Financial Information, Accounting and the Law Corporations and Other Business Organizations Cases and Materials (with Eisenberg) and Securities Regulations Cases and Materials (with Hillman & Langevoort) and his multi-volume treatise Cox and Hazen on Corporations, he has published extensively in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance, and has testified before the U.S. Cox, the Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, specializes in the areas of corporate and securities law.
