Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do, Third Edition

Tina L. Stark teaches at Emory University School of Law where she is a Professor in the Practice of Law and the Executive Director of the schools Center for Transactional Law and Practice. She is an internationally recognized authority on contract drafting and the teaching of transactional skills and has written extensively on these topics. She is also the editor-in-chief and co-author of Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate. Professor Stark speaks frequently on drafting, transactional skills, the intersection of law and business, and boilerplate in contracts. She has lectured at programs in the United States, Canada, England, Italy, China, and Poland. In addition, she has served as a consultant to an English law school in connection with the creation of its transactional and business curriculum.

After graduating from Brown University with honors, Professor Stark was a commercial banker at Irving Trust Company. She then attended New York University School of Law where she was a contributing editor to the Journal of International Law Politics. Professor Stark clerked for Judge Jacob D. Fuchsberg of the New York State Court of Appeals.

Professor Stark was a corporate partner at Chadbourne Parke LLP from 1988 until 1993. While there, she had a broad-based transactional practice, including acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and financings. In addition, she developed and implemented the firms corporate training program.

Before joining the Emory faculty, Professor Stark was an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School for fourteen years. She taught courses on drafting, transactional skills, and business.

Professor Stark was appointed as a member of the Professional Education Project by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye of the New York State Court of Appeals. The PEJ studied the legal education curriculum in New York State and recommended, among other things, that continuing legal education become mandatory in New York.