Lynn Stout

Lynn A. Stout (September 14, 1957 – April 16, 2018) was an American corporate law scholar. She was the Distinguished Professor of Corporate &amp; Business Law at the Cornell Law School. Before, she worked as Professor of Corporate and Securities Law at UCLA Law School. Her work was about researching, writing on, and teaching about corporate law, securities and derivatives regulation, law and economics, and prosocial behavior and law. 
Stout died on April 16, 2018 at the age of 61 of cancer.