Lawrence A. Cunningham
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Lawrence A. Cunningham (born July 10, 1962) is an author of several investing books and is a professor, currently at Boston College. His books include The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Outsmarting the Smart Money. They have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.
[edit] Background
Cunningham's father died when Cunningham was 13, whereupon he enrolled in Girard College, the boarding school for poor orphans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduation, he worked full-time to put himself through his home-state school, University of Delaware. On a scholarship, he attended Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1988.
From 1988 to 1992, Cunningham practiced corporate law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore before taking an appointment to the law faculty of his alma mater. While on the Cardozo faculty, Cunningham directed The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and wrote several books on value investing.
[edit] Significance
Cunningham is regarded as a significant expert in the field of law and accounting, having authored more than 30 scholarly articles in major law journals and published 10 books. These articles are widely-cited in the literature. His books are the standard teaching books for the subject of accounting in US law schools.