Bruce M. Price
Associate Professor
Biographical Note
During his years of practice, Associate Professor Price concentrated on bankruptcy, contracts, and corporate law. He joined the faculty at Denver University in 2004, where he received the Mentorship Award and was nominated for Most Outstanding Faculty Member and Most Engaging Professor in 2006. A graduate of Haverford College, Price earned his juris doctor with honors from George Washington University National Law Center in 1993. He holds a doctorate from New York University, Institute for Law and Society. His publications include "A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings in Menlo Park: An Organizational Analysis of Increases in Associate Salaries" (Wisconsin Law Review, 2005) and "How Green was My Valley: an Examination of Tournament Theory as a Governance Mechanism in Silicon Valley Law Firms" (Law and Society Review, 2003).
Education
BA, Haverford College
PhD, New York University
Scholarship
Articles
"From Downhill to Slalom: An Empirical Analysis of the Effectiveness of BAPCPA (And Some Unintended Consequences)," 26 Yale Law and Policy Review 135 (2007) (with Terry Dalton). [Available to download at SSRN]
"A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings in Menlo Park: An Organizational Analysis of Increases in Associate Salaries," 2005 Wisconsin Law Review 713 (2005). [Available to download at SSRN]
"How Green Was My Valley: An Examination of Tournament Theory as a Governance Mechanism in Silicon Valley Law Firms," 37 Law and Society Review 731 (2003). [Available to download at SSRN]
Presentations
Speaker, Tenth Circuit Judicial Conference (September 2006).
Panelist, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas (June 2005).
Panelist, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago (June 2004).
"How Green Was My Valley: An Examination of Tournament Theory as a Governance Mechanism in Silicon Valley Law Firms," Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Institute for Law and Society, New York University (March 2004).
"New Institutions of the Knowledge Economy: The Silicon Valley Case," Program on Corporation as a Social Institution, Social Science Research Council, Berkeley (June 2003).
"An Examination of Changing Roles and Relationships of Lawyers in Silicon Valley," Columbia, University of Southern California, and Georgetown Interdisciplinary Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop (June 2003).
"How Green Was My Valley: Changing roles and Relationships of Lawyers in Silicon Valley and the Breakdown of the Cravath System and the Tournament of Lawyers," Joint Law and Society and Canadian Law and Society Conference, Vancouver (2002).
"Invested: An Examination of Ethics, Conflicts, and Cultural Risks in Law Firm Equity Investment Opportunities," Program on Corporation as a Social Institution, SSRC, Berkeley (2001).
"Changing Roles and Relationships of Law Firms in Silicon Valley," New Myths, New Rituals, and New Organizational Forms: A Workshop on the New Economy, Emory University (2001).
"The Six-Minute Man: A Sociolegal Examination of the Institution of Billable Hours in New York City Law Firms," Program on Corporation as a Social Institution, SSRC, Berkeley (1999).
Respondent, Gender Panel Discussion, "Cultural Violence," Human Sciences Department, George Washington University (1997).
Books
Editor, Contracts: Essay and Multiple Choice Questions and Answers (2009).
