A.B., Cornell University
J.D., New York University

Associate Director, The Center on Property, Citizenship and Entrepreneurism  (Corporate Counsel and Governance)
Founding Director of the Center for Law and Business Enterprise;
Director of the Corporate Counsel Program--
The Corporate Counsel Program is a unique curriculum that offers students interested in careers as corporate counsel the opportunity to specialize in their law studies. He is also a co-director of the Law in London Program.


Professor Day has written on real estate finance, corporate finance, taxation, foreign policy and national defense, legal literature, and legal education in such journals as Journal des 
Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Wake Forest Law Review, Urban Law Annual (Washington University), University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, Syracuse Law Review, Journal of Corporate Law (Iowa), Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and the Real Estate Finance Journal. Professor Day was a Research Alumni Fellow in 1992-1993. His current research focuses on early capital markets and on the relationship between liquidity and management structures in entrepreneurial businesses. He has presented papers and chaired panels at law, finance and economic conferences in Europe, Asia and the United States and South America.

Professor Day is an expert in Early Capital Markets, Real Estate Finance and Development, Corporations, Closely Held Businesses, Professional Responsibility and Appellate Advocacy.

Professor Day Co-Chaired the College of Law’s Building Committee. That project resulted in MacNaughton Hall ($17 million for new facilities and renovations for the College). He has consulted on courtroom design and law school building projects. Professor Day served as Associate Dean for Academics and Acting Director of the Barclay Law Library. He has also served as Moot Court Advisor as well as coaching appellate and trial teams to national competitions. During his tenure as Moot Court Advisor the College earned the coveted American College of Trial Lawyers Emil Gumpert Award (1990) for the best advocacy program in the Nation. The College was also designated the “Outstanding New York State Moot Court Program” by the Defense Association of New York (1988).

Professor Day earned his A.B. from Cornell University and J.D. from New York University School of Law (law review editor). He practiced litigation and corporate real estate with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, PA. He has been admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and New York. Prior to coming to Syracuse University he taught at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Day served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve.        

Articles: 

Law Schools Can Solve Our Bar Pass Problem-"Do The Work!"  40 Cal. West.L Rev. 321 (2004)

Partner to Plutocrat: The Separation of Ownership from Management in Emerging Capital Markets-19th Century Industrial America. 58 U. Miami L. Rev. 201 (2004)

Teaching Students How to Become In-House Counsel, 51 J. LEGAL
EDUC. 503 (2001)

Investor Power & Liquidity: Corporations, Capital Markets
and the Industrialization of America, 5 J. SMALL & EMERGING
BUS. L. 345 (2001).

Corporate Governance, Conrail and the Market: Getting on the Right
Track! 26 J. CORPORATION L. 1 (Fall 2000).

In Search of the Read Footnote: Techniques for Writing Legal 
Scholarship and Having It Published, 6 J. L. WRITING 229 (2000).

Criminal Procedure Issues Arising From Close Contacts Between 
Mainland China and Taiwan, 21 SYRACUSE J. INT'L L. & COM. 105
(1995). (Co-author: Chen Ronbing Zheng Jingren, DuLianrui)

The Teaching of Legal Classics, 26 IND. L. REV. 263 (1993).

Resisting Serfdom: Making the Market Work in a Great Republic, 25
IND. L. REV. 799 (1992).

Riding the Rapids: Financing the Leveraged Transaction Without
Getting Wet, 41 SYRACUSE L. REV. 661 (1990). (Co-authors: Michael P.
Walls, Lisa A. Dolak)

Maintaining the Dragon's Teeth: Balanced Sales of Advanced Weapons
and High Technology to the Two Chinas -An Exercise in Balance of 
Power Policies by the United States, 13 SYRACUSE J. INT'L L. & COM .29
(1986).

Corporate Real Estate Ventures: Using Flips Without Flopping, 1 Real Est. Fin. J. 46 (Fall 1985).

Corporate Investment in Real Estate Ventures -Special Considerations
for Special Allocations Under 704: "The Price is Right!", 10 J. CORP. L.
313 (1985).

Commissioner v. Tufts: The Fall of Footnote 37: The Confirmation of 
the Functional Relationship, 45 U. PITT. L. REV. 803 (1984).

Implied Antitrust Appeals: Principles for Analysis, 86 DICK. L. REV. 447
(1982).(Co-author: Robert S. Balter)

A Land Retrenchment Policy for Energy and Resources-Short Times: A
Modest Proposal, 10 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 71 (1982).

The Condominium Crisis: A Problem Unresolved, 21 URB. L. ANN. 3 (1981).
(Co-author: Mark I. Forgel)

Federal Income Tax Reform: An Important Tool for Historic 
Preservation, 16 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 315 (1980).