Professor Douglas K. Moll

Douglas K. Moll is the A.A. White Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, where he has taught Business Organizations, Agency and Partnership, and Secured Transactions since 1997. He is a leading national voice in the field of closely held corporations and fiduciary duties in business associations. Professor Moll graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Carolyn King on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is the co-author of several authoritative texts, including a hornbook on business organizations, three casebooks on business law, and a highly cited treatise on closely held corporations. Before entering academia, he practiced commercial litigation in Houston. 

Major Publications: 

• Closely Held Corporations 
• Macey and Moll's Statutory Supplement to The Law of Business Organizations, Cases, Materials, and Problems 
• Contracting Out of Partnership 
• Case Law Update: A Survey of Recent Texas Partnership and LLC Cases 
• The Limited Effect of 'Maximum Effect' 
• Against Contractual Formalism in Shareholder Oppression Law