Stefan Padfield

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Stefan Padfield is a Principal for the Free Enterprise Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

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BIOGRAPHY

Stefan Padfield is a Principal for the Free Enterprise Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

Prior to joining Heritage, Padfield was the Executive Director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP), filing shareholder resolutions, engaging corporate managers, supervising lawsuits and directing media campaigns to push corporations back to neutral.

Before joining FEP, Padfield was a tenured full professor of law, spending over 15 years teaching law at the University of Akron School of Law, publishing over 15 law review articles and a book chapter. He also co-authored a two-volume mini-treatise on the history of economic thought and contributed to the Business Law Prof Blog.

Padfield previously worked in private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and clerked for two federal court judges. Stefan originally emigrated to the U.S. as a child, later becoming a U.S. citizen and serving 6 years in the U.S. Army. Padfield earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University.

Summary

Stefan Padfield is a Principal for the Free Enterprise Initiative and a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

Before joining Heritage, he was the Executive Director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project.

He served in the U.S. Army and earned a law degree from the University of Kansas.

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    Red Flag Case Studies Highlight Corporations Putting Shareholder Value at Risk

    Stefan Padfield
    When corporate governance experts speak about “red flags,” they are typically referring to information signaling a problem at a corporation that warrants additional oversight. As a related law firm memo on Delaware law notes: “The duty of oversight requires directors to … take action to address red flags that indicate potential corporate wrongdoing.” As a…
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  • opinion

    The Great Corporate Governance Realignment

    Stefan Padfield
  • opinion

    After Years of Weaponizing Shareholder Voting, Will the Big Three Escape Accountability?

    Stefan Padfield
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    How ESG Will Destroy Your Company

    Stefan Padfield
  • opinion

    A Boycott That’s Increasingly Off-Target: The Pitfalls of Pushing DEI

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    A Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling

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