<img src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/DE2014VisitingScholar235px.jpg" width="235" height="200" class="FloatRight" alt="DE2014VisitingScholar235px">Widener University School of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Afra Afsharipour, the Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law will serve as the school’s 2014 annual visiting scholar in residence in business and corporate law.<br><br>Afsharipour will give the lecture, “Deal Advisors,” on <b>Monday, Nov. 17</b> at <b>4 p.m.</b> at <b>The Wilmington Club, 1103 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del</b>. Attorneys from Delaware and Pennsylvania who attend will be eligible for one substantive continuing legal education credit. New Jersey attorneys may self-report for credit with a Widener Law certificate of attendance. There is no cost to register and business attire is required for attendance.<br><br>Afsharipour’s talk is presented by Widener Law Delaware, its <a href="/Academics/Institutes/InstituteofDelawareCorporateandBusinessLaw.aspx">Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law</a>, and The Delaware Counsel Group LLP, Attorneys at Law, a Wilmington-based law firm that advises nationally and internationally on Delaware corporate and alternative-entity transactions. She is expected to examine the role of financial and legal advisors in merger and acquisition transactions – a topic that has received a great deal of attention in recent Delaware litigation.<br><br>Afsharipour will also speak at Widener Law Delaware on <b>Nov. 18</b> to members of the faculty and students associated with the <a href="/CampusLife/ActivitiesandOrganizations/DelawareJournalofCorporateLaw.aspx">Delaware Journal of Corporate Law</a>. The school’s Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law strives to serve as a forum for interaction between business law scholarship and practice. The institute believes that the law profits from actively engaging lawyers, judges, legislators and scholars who practice, study and define it. Institute Director and Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/HamermeshLawrenceA.aspx">Lawrence A. Hamermesh</a> said the school is looking forward to the events.<br><br>“Our scholar in residence program was designed to introduce young, promising scholars in corporate and business law to the Delaware bench and bar,” Hamermesh said. “We are certain they will benefit from Afra Afsharipour’s scholarly insights, and will enrich her work with their feedback.”<br><br>Widener Law is grateful to Delaware Counsel Group, LLP and Ellisa Habbart, founding partner, for its support of this event. The firm has supported the program since its inception.<br><br>“We have had great success with our visiting scholar program. Almost all of the scholars to date have remained in contact with Delaware and continue to praise the benefits of Delaware law. They are great spokespeople for the state,” Habbart said.<br><br>Afsharipour’s research interests focus on business associations, business planning, antitrust and mergers and acquisitions. Her work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review and the Vanderbilt Law Review. She is chair-elect of the Transactional Law and Skills section of the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to joining the UC Davis School of Law faculty, she practiced at Davis Polk &amp; Wardwell in both New York, N.Y. and Menlo Park, Calif.<br><br>To register for the program at The Wilmington Club, visit <a href="/Spiffs/WidenerLawHighlights/2014VisitingScholar.aspx">law.widener.edu/visitingscholar</a>. For more information, contact Carol Perrupato at 302.477.2178 or <a href="mailto:caperrupato@widener.edu">caperrupato@widener.edu</a>.