Associate Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., Harvard University
Contracts I
Contracts II
Corporate Finance
Robert P. Bartlett III joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2005 and teaches Corporate Finance and Contracts. Prior to joining the Georgia Law faculty, Bartlett served as a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University School of Law during the 2004-05 academic year. He was also a corporate associate in the Menlo Park, Calif., and Waltham, Mass., offices of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian.
Bartlett's primary area of research focuses on the intersection of finance and business law, with a particular emphasis on private equity transactions. Since entering the legal academy, Bartlett's scholarship has been published in the Fordham Law Review, the UCLA Law Review and the University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming). Bartlett has also written and co-authored a number of practice-oriented guides for corporate law practitioners, including publications in The Business Lawyer and The Acquisition and Sale of the Emerging Growth Company: The M&A Exit (Thomson West, 2004). Additionally, Bartlett is an advisory board member to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Model Document Working Group, a consortium of lawyers responsible for drafting and maintaining the NVCA's model documents for venture capital financing transactions.
Bartlett is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as a notes editor of the Harvard Law Review and was a semifinalist in Harvard's Ames Moot Court Competition. He also earned his undergraduate degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, where he was the recipient of the Detur Prize and David Donald Prize as well as a John Harvard Scholarship and a Harvard College Fellowship.
ARTICLES
Going Private but Staying Public: Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms' Going-private Decisions, 76 U. Chi. L. Rev. 7 (2009).
Commentary, 51 Ariz. L. Rev. 47 (2009).
Taking Finance Seriously: How Debt Financing Distorts Bidding Outcomes in Corporate Takeovers, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 1975 (2008).
Venture Capital, Agency Costs, and the False Dichotomy of the Corporation, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 37 (2006).
Understanding Price-Based Antidilution Protection: Five Principles to Apply When Negotiating a Down-Round Financing, 59 Bus. Law. 23 (2003).
Cyberspace Regulation and the Discourse of State Sovereignty, 112 Harv. L. Rev. 1680 (1999).
CHAPTERS
"The Ancillary Agreements" in The Acquisition and Sale of the Emerging Growth Company: The M&A Exit (Glasser LegalWorks, 2004).

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