Background
Coffee, John Collins was born on November 15, 1944 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of John Collins and Mary E. Coffee.
General practitioner legal educator
Coffee, John Collins was born on November 15, 1944 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of John Collins and Mary E. Coffee.
Coffee grew up in Manhasset, New New York He attended Manhasset High School where he was in the National Honor Society. After graduation, he attended Amherst College with his high school friend and classmate, actor Ken Howard.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College in 1966, his Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1969 and later an Master of Laws (in taxation) from New York University School of Law.
Education Following graduation from law school, Coffee was a Reginald Heber Smith fellow for one year, doing poverty law litigation in New York City. He entered private practice as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1970-1976. He has also served as Reporter for the American Bar Association for its Model Standards on Sentencing Alternatives and Procedures and for the American Law Institute"s Principles of Corporate Governance.
From 1976-1980, he was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center before coming to Columbia.
He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2001), Stanford University Law School (1988), the University of Virginia Law School (1978), and the University of Michigan Law School (1979). Coffee has been listed by the National Law Journal as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States." He is often quoted by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other major media outlets, such as Fox News and Cable News Network, in their corporate and securities reporting.
He has also written one of the best known casebooks on United States. securities regulation, as well as another on corporations. He is considered one of the foremost legal scholars in that area of securities law.
Professor Coffee is the most cited law professor in law reviews in the combined corporate, commercial, and business law field
Personal They have one daughter, who is a physician. On August 10, 2011, Coffee was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Member panel on sentencing research National Academy Sciences, 1980-1983. Member legal advisory board National Association of Securities Dealers. Member market regulation committee National Association of Securities Dealers Regulation, Incorporated.
Member of advisory board LENS, Incorporated.
Member standing commission on law and justice National Academy of Sciences. Reginald Heber Smith fellow, 1969-1970.Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Bar Foundation.
Member American Law Institute (reporter project oncorp. governance), American Bar Association (reporter minimum standards for criminal justice), American Association Law School (chairman of the section on business associations 1981-1982, Chairman of Commission on sections 1984-1985, chairman audit committee), Association Bar City of New York (commission on securities laws 1981-1992).
Married Jane Purcell, July 1, 1970.