Curtis J Milhaupt is the William F Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow, by courtesy, of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research and teaching interests include comparative corporate governance, the legal systems of East Asia, and Chinese state capitalism. Prior to his Stanford appointment in 2018, Professor Milhaupt held chaired professorships in comparative corporate law and Japanese law at Columbia Law School. Professor Milhaupt has held numerous visiting appointments at universities around the world and is the recipient of two teaching awards. Prior to entering academia, he practised corporate law in New York and Tokyo with a major US law firm.