Eric J. Pan is Associate Professor of Law and Director of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and Washington, DC.

Prof. Pan conducts research on financial regulation, capital markets, corporate governance and international law. Among his many professional activities, Prof. Pan directs the London-based Chatham House City Series, serves as a member of the International Bar Association’s Securities Law Task Force on Extraterritorial Regulation and frequently speaks about international financial and corporate law issues across North America, Europe and Asia.

Before joining Cardozo, Prof. Pan was an attorney in the Washington, DC office of Covington & Burling, where he worked in Covington’s corporate, securities, and international practice groups. His practice consisted of mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, securities regulation, general corporate advisory work, and public and private international law matters. Before his time at Covington, he was a Jean Monnet Lecturer in Law at Warwick University, England, and served as director of Warwick’s Programme in Law and Business. He was also a visiting fellow in international law at Cambridge University, England.

He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, and A.B. from Harvard College.