Michael Dorff is the Michael & Jessica Downer Chair and the Director of the Technology Law and Entrepreneurship Program at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. He formerly served as the founding Associate Dean for Research at Southwestern. Professor Dorff’s research focuses primarily on corporate governance (especially executive compensation), corporate purpose, social enterprise, and the philosophy of law and economics. Professor Dorff’s book on executive compensation, Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed, and How to Fix It was published by the University of California Press in 2014. His next book, Becoming a Public Benefit Corporation: Express Your Values, Energize Stakeholders, Make the World a Better Place, will be published by Stanford University Press in November 2023. His writing has appeared or been discussed in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Politico, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, and Fortune, as well as numerous law reviews such as the Harvard Business Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, and the Negotiation Journal.