About Robert
Robert Mundheim built a career that crosses government, Wall Street and the law school classroom. He began his academic studies at Harvard, earning a B.A. in American history in 1954 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1957. Years later he added an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971.
He was admitted to the New York bar in 1958 and joined the ranks of national legal organizations soon after. In the 1970s he entered public service and in 1977 served as general counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department. That Washington experience preceded a move into academia: by 1980 he held a professorship in law and finance, teaching and writing at the intersection of corporate practice and financial regulation.
The 1990s brought a turn back toward the private sector. He joined Salomon, Inc. as executive vice president and general counsel in 1992. Five years later he became senior executive vice president and general counsel at Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc., taking on expanded responsibilities during a period of significant change on Wall Street. In 1999 he returned to law firm work as of counsel at Shearman & Sterling in New York.
Mundheim’s memberships reflect a long engagement with the profession. He has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1958 and joined the Pennsylvania bar in 1979. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute, memberships he has held for decades. Those affiliations mirror a career that has moved between practice, policy and teaching.
In the classroom he has been identified with corporate law and finance. His roles in corporate general counsel offices gave him hands-on experience with securities, corporate governance and compliance issues. His academic titles have emphasized the link between legal doctrine and financial markets, and his work has been grounded in both practice and scholarship.
Since 2011 he has been on the faculty at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where he serves as a professor of corporate law and finance. He currently teaches corporate law and finance at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
