Geeyoung Min is an Associate Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law, where she has been a faculty member since 2019. Her teaching and research areas are Business Enterprises, Securities Regulation, and Corporate Governance and Compliance.
Her scholarship integrates both doctrinal analysis and empirical methods, primarily focusing on publicly traded companies in the U.S. In addition, she often incorporates a comparative perspective, examining corporate governance issues in other countries, particularly in East Asia.
Professor Min was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law. She earned her LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School and holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a B. L. from Seoul National University.
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LL.M. and J.S.D. Yale Law School
B.A. and B.L. Seoul National University
The Employees’ Dilemma: Balancing Internal Reporting, Whistleblowing, and Insider Trading Risks, 48 Seattle U. L. Rev. 439 (2025) (solicited for the Berle XVI Symposium: Corporate Governance at the Intersection of Law and Information)
Shareholder Direct Democracy, 74 Emory L. J. 381 (2024)
Strategic Compliance, 57 UC Davis L. Rev. 415 (2023)
Realigning Stockholder Inspection Rights(with Alexander M. Krischik), 27 Stan. J. L. Bus. & Fin. 225 (2022)
Relational Enforcement of Stock Exchange Rules(with Kwon-Yong Jin), 47 BYU L. Rev.149 (2021)
Governance by Dividends, 107Iowa L. Rev.117 (2021)
Board Compliance(with John Armour, Brandon Garrett, and Jeffrey Gordon), 104Minn. L.Rev.1191(2020)
Taking Compliance Seriously (with John Armour and Jeffrey Gordon) , 37Yale J. Reg. 1 (2020)
Insulation by Separation: When Dual-Class Stock Met Corporate Spin-offs(with Young Ran (Christine) Kim), 10 UC Irvine L. Rev. 1 (2019)
Active Firms and Active Shareholders: Corporate Political Activity and Shareholder Proposals(with Hye Young You), 48 J. Legal Stud. 81 (2019)
Contractarian Theory and Unilateral Bylaw Amendments (with Albert H. Choi), 104 Iowa L. Rev. 1(2018)
Shareholder Voice in Corporate Charter Amendments , 43 J. Corp. L. 289 (2018)
Competition and Corporate Governance: Teaming Up to Police Tunneling(with Yong Lim), 36 Nw. J. Int’l L. & Bus. 267 (2016)
The SEC and the Courts’ Cooperative Policing of Related Party Transactions, 2014 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 663 (2014)
Business Enterprises
This course deals with issues relating to common forms of business organization, including corporations, limited liability companies and closely held corporations. The four credit version of Business Enterprises also includes an introduction to mergers and acquisitions.
Corporate Governance and Compliance
(Formerly Corporate Law and Policy: Corporate Governance and Compliance) A survey of issues in corporate governance and compliance in light of the legal risks faced by corporations and corporate directors and officers in the legal environment presented by securities law, antitrust, tort law, environmental law, and other sources of liability. Specific topics include risk management, Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, internal compliance programs, and corporate codes of conduct and codes of behavior.
Securities Regulation I
(Formerly DCL 428)
This course examines the registration requirements applicable to public offers of securities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Michigan Blue Sky Law. Primary emphasis will be placed upon the various types of securities that are subject to registration and the exemptions from registration requirements. In addition, the course will explore, in further depth, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Business Enterprises may be taken concurrently.