Melvin A. Eisenberg
Melvin A. Eisenberg is the Jesse H Choper Professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. After studying at Columbia University (1956) and Harvard University (1959), he worked in the firm Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler, as assistant counsel in the Warren Commission, and joined Berkeley in 1966. He is recognised as a leading scholar in US corporate law, and contract law, in both of which he has authored leading textbooks. He has advised the American Law Institute on both the Restatement (Third) of Agency and Restatement (Third) of Restitution.