Professor Douglas K. Moll

Douglas Moll is a professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches in the areas of business organizations, business torts, and commercial law. He came to the Law Center in 1997 as an Associate Professor of Law.

Professor Moll serves as an Adviser on ALI’s Principles of the Law of Compliance, Enforcement, and Risk Management for Corporations, Nonprofits, and Other Organizations project.

After a clerkship with Judge Carolyn Dineen King on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, he spent two years practicing commercial litigation with Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston.

He is the co-author of a treatise on closely held corporations, three casebooks on business law (closely held business organizations, business organizations generally, and business torts), and a concise hornbook on business organizations. He has also written numerous law review articles focusing on closely held businesses and related fiduciary duty and oppression doctrines. He is a past Chair and current Executive Committee member of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Agency and Unincorporated Business Associations.

EDUCATION: University of Virginia, B.S.; Harvard Law School, J.D.