Faculty

Stephen F. Diamond

Associate Professor of Law


Prior Appointments

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, California
Associate, Latham & Watkins, New York, New York
Visiting Scholar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University
Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California
Visiting Scholar, Center for U.S. Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Project on Terrorism, Amb. Donald F. McHenry)

Notes

 

Professor Diamond’s research centers on the impact of globalization, new technology and financial innovation on social and political institutions.  He is particularly interested in global capital markets and the labor movement.  Prior to law school he had extensive experience in the labor movement as a union staff member, officer and labor educator.  He continues to advise labor unions and institutional investors on issues related to corporate finance and governance. While in private practice, Professor Diamond represented investment banks, private equity firms, start-up companies and public companies, predominantly in the high technology sector. Professor Diamond also serves on the board of directors of a small cap technology company located in Silicon Valley.

 

In addition to his extensive experience in financial transactions, Professor Diamond was part of the legal team headed by Professor Harold Koh at Yale Law School that represented the so-called Haitian "boat people" who were quarantined by the U.S. government at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay.  While in private practice he served as outside counsel to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and survivors of the Golden Venture, a ship carrying political refugees from mainland China that ran aground in New York.  A three year legal and political campaign led to the survivors’ release from detention in INS jails.

 

Selected Publications

 

Ringing the Bell on the NYSE: Might a Nonprofit Stock Exchange Have Been Efficient? Duquesne Business Law Journal, Spring, 2007

 

The Delphi "Bankruptcy"
Dissent, Spring, 2006

 

Human Rights, Labor Rights and International Trade: Law and Policy Perspectives (with Lance A. Compa), University of Pennsylvania (1996; 2003).

 

The PetroChina Syndrome: Regulating Capital Markets in the Anti-Globalization Era, 29 The Journal of Corporation Law 39 (2003).

 

The 'Race to the Bottom' Returns: China's Challenge to the International Labor Movement, 10 U.C. Davis Journal of International Law and Policy 39 (2003).

 

Hey, the Boss Just Called Me Into the Office... The Weingarten Decision and the Right to Representation on the Job, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California at Berkeley (2004).

 

Course Websites

 

LexisNexis Blackboard

Courses Taught
sdiamond@scu.edu
(408) 554-4813
Heafey 205B

EDUCATION

J.D., Yale Law School, Symposium Editor, Yale Law Journal
Ph.D., Political Science, University of London (Birkbeck College), MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa

Working Papers at SSRN