John Orcutt
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
- JD, Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley
- john.orcutt@law.unh.edu
- (603) 513-5185
- Courses: Business Associations I, Contracts, Securities Regulation: Public and Private Securities Markets
- Committees: AALS/Faculty Scholarship Awards, Academic Integration, Appointments, International Technology Transfer Institute
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Scholarship
Professor Orcutt, who was selected as the law school’s “Teacher of the Year” for five straight years (2004-2008), teaches courses in Business Associations, Contracts, and Securities Regulation. He has also recently taught Mergers & Acquisition and Start-up Company Finance. Professor Orcutt has also taught IP, Entrepreneurialism and Foreign Direct Investment in China in the law school’s Summer Intellectual Property Institute at Tsinghua University Law School.
Professor Orcutt recently co-founded the law school’s International Technology Transfer Institute, which is a specialized research and consulting center that seeks to help countries throughout the world improve the flow of publicly-funded innovations from universities and research institutes into the commercial sector.
In 2008, Professor Orcutt was elected chairperson of New Hampshire's EPSCoR Statewide Committee. The goal of EPSCoR, which stands for Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, is to foster economic development by improving the R&D infrastructure of select states. As part of his work for New Hampshire EPSCoR, Professor Orcutt is co-authoring a science & technology business plan for New Hampshire along with Professor Ross Gittell (UNH Whittemore School of Business and Economics).
Before coming to the law school, Professor Orcutt spent eight years as both a capital markets attorney and an investment banker. Professor Orcutt was a Principal at Robertson Stephens, a Silicon Valley investment bank, where he was the head of its West Coast Telecom Services investment banking practice. He also served as Chief Administrative Officer of Robertson Stephens' M&A group and as its Associate General Counsel. Prior to joining Robertson Stephens, Professor Orcutt was a Corporate Finance Associate with Shearman & Sterling, serving in both its New York, NY and Paris, France offices, where he specialized in securities offerings by European companies conducting dual listings in the United States and Europe.
Professor Orcutt’s research interests focus on innovations systems and how to improve the environment for entrepreneurial companies and technology-based economic development.
Recent Publications
Books
Shaping China’s Innovation Future: University Technology Transfer in Transition (co-authored with Hong Shen) (Edward Elgar Publishing – to be published in fall 2010).
Law Review Articles
The Case Against Exempting Smaller Reporting Companies From Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: Why Market-Based Solutions are Likely to Harm Ordinary Investors, 14 FORDHAM JOURNAL OF CORPORATE & FINANCIAL LAW 325 (2009).
Improving the Efficiency of the Angel Finance Market: A Proposal to Expand the Intermediary Role of Finders in the Private Capital Raising Setting, 37 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL 861 (2005).
Investor Skepticism v. Investor Confidence: Why the New Research Analyst Reforms Will Harm Investors, 81 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1 (2003).
Policy Reports
New Hampshire in the Innovation Economy: A Plan to Increase Innovation and Technology-Based Economic Development in New Hampshire (co-authored study with Prof. Ross Gittell) (preliminary report issued April 2010 – next version due in late 2010)
Works-in-Progress
Patent Valuation (in-progress book) (co-authored with Prof. William Murphy)
China: The Birth of a Modern Economic Legal System . . .And What It Means For The Rest Of The World (in-progress book) (co-authored with Hong Shen)
Don’t Fear the Reaper: Why Hostile Raiders are Needed to Save America from its Bad Corporate Managers (in-progress law review article)
