Charles W. Murdock

Charles W. Murdock is one of the leading scholars and experts in Illinois corporate law and other business organizations. He has published numerous law review articles; the second edition of his two-volume treatise on Illinois business organizations for West Publishing Company, Illinois Practice – Business Organizations, vol. 7 & 8, is supplemented annually. Professor Murdock was the draftsman for the 1983 Illinois Business Corporation Act, and on the committees that have revised the Illinois Limited Liability Act.

While in law school, Professor Murdock served as editor of Recent Decisions. Upon graduation, he joined Schiff, Hardin & Waite, a large Chicago law firm specializing in corporate and securities work. Before assuming the deanship of Loyola in 1975, he taught at DePaul, Notre Dame, and the University of California (Hastings). In 1983, he resigned as dean to serve as Deputy Attorney General of Illinois; he returned to the Loyola faculty in 1985.

While at Notre Dame, he was one of the founders for the National Center for Law and the Handicapped and also established a Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company, the first MESBIC to be affiliated with a university and to be supported by faculty and graduate students. He has frequently served as an expert witness in corporate and securities law matters and as a lecturer in local and national CLE programs; he has also served as a special master for the District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois and as a consultant to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Professor Murdock co-founded the Loyola Family Business Program, a membership forum of many of the most significant family businesses in the Midwest, and has also been recognized in Who’s Who in America.