Two visiting professors -- one an expert in corporate law and the other in legal philosophy -- will teach courses this fall at the Cornell Law School.

Boston University School of Law Professor Charles K. Whitehead '83, an expert in corporate, capital market and merger and acquisition law, will teach courses on business associations and capital structure and corporate governance.

"I hope that my students will come to appreciate the broader issues that corporate law is designed to address," says Whitehead. "Understanding how the law was applied and what it was intended to accomplish is key, and I expect my students will gain a sufficient familiarity to be able to undertake those analyses on their own."

Before joining academia, Whitehead practiced law in the United States, Europe and Asia as an attorney and as general counsel of several large financial institutions.

Chaim Gans, professor of legal philosophy at Tel Aviv University, will teach a seminar on national and multicultural rights. He will cover such topics as multiculturalism, cultural nationalism, ultra-nationalist thinking and polyethnic rights. Gans, who holds a LL.B. from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University, is author of "Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience" (1992); "The Limits of Nationalism" (2003); "From Richard Wagner to the Palestinian Right of Return" (2006; in Hebrew) and "A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State" (2008).