Professor Bunting joined the faculty at Stetson in Fall 2022. Prior to joining Stetson, he was a research assistant professor at the Fox School of Business & Management at Temple University (2018-2022). He has been awarded the Dickerson-Brown Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship and the Excellence in Policy Research Roundtable Award. These awards represent the top research honor at each respective institution. He was also a Wagner Research Fellow at the New York University Center for Law and Business.
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About Me
Professor Bunting earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and his J.D. from New York University Law School in 2006. During undergraduate studies, Professor Bunting earned a B.A. from Carleton College, with a double major in Mathematics and Economics.
Professor Bunting joined the faculty at Stetson in Fall 2022. Prior to joining Stetson, he was a research assistant professor at the Fox School of Business & Management at Temple University (2018-2022). He has been awarded the Dickerson-Brown Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship and the Excellence in Policy Research Roundtable Award. These awards represent the top research honor at each respective institution. He was also a Wagner Research Fellow at the New York University Center for Law and Business.
After law school, but before becoming a law professor, Professor Bunting worked as a litigation associate at Paul Weiss in Manhattan, where he worked on a number of complex cases in corporate law and real estate. Following this, he completed a federal judicial clerkship with Judge Theodore
H. Katz in the Southern District of New York. Professor Bunting also previously served as an economist at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he developed cases addressing illegal lending practices and consumer harm.
Professor Bunting's scholarship sits at the intersection of law
and economics and business law. His work addresses a range of
issues in business law, from corporate political speech and investor primacy to
the regulation of risk transactions and optimal firm size.
Professor Bunting joined the faculty at Stetson in Fall 2022. Prior to joining Stetson, he was a research assistant professor at the Fox School of Business & Management at Temple University (2018-2022). He has been awarded the Dickerson-Brown Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship and the Excellence in Policy Research Roundtable Award. These awards represent the top research honor at each respective institution. He was also a Wagner Research Fellow at the New York University Center for Law and Business.
Publications
- W.C. Bunting, “Investor Primacy,” Tulane Law Review, Forthcoming 2026.
- W.C. Bunting & Tomer Stein, “Lobbying by Brief: Unveiling the Dominance of Amicus Lobbying in the Development of Business Law,,” SMU Law Review, 2025.
- W.C. Bunting, “A Simple Model of Corporate Fiduciary Duties: With an Application to Corporate Compliance,” Review of Law and Economics, 2021.
- W.C. Bunting, “Silencing Corporate Political Speech,” Maryland Law Review , 2024.
- W.C. Bunting, “The Optimal Allocation of Scarce Resources: Three Fundamental Theorems in Property Law,” Baylor Law Review, 2024.
- W.C. Bunting, “Consumer Voice and Optimal Firm Size,” Buffalo Law Review, 2024.
- W.C. Bunting, “Ductile Rights,” Kentucky Law Journal, 2023-2024.
- W.C. Bunting, “A Better Legal Definition of Gambling: With Applications to Synthetic Financial Instruments and Cryptocurrency, ,” Albany Law Review, 2023.
- W.C. Bunting, “How the Law Can Leverage Behavioral Economics to Better Protect Small Business Owners Against Location Risk in the Brick-and-Mortar Retail Sector,” American Business Law Journal , 2022.
- W.C. Bunting, “Against Corporate Activism: Examining the Use of Corporate Speech to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility,” Oklahoma Law Review, 2022.
- W.C. Bunting, “Curbing the Anticompetitive Impact of Commercial Land Use Regulation: An Administrative Approach,,” Villanova Law Review, 2021.
- W.C. Bunting, “Does Increased Access to Home Mortgage Money Decrease Local Crime Rates? Evidence from San Diego County, ,” Regional Science & Urban Economics , 2020.
- W.C. Bunting, “In Defense of a Liberal Choice-Based Approach to Residential Segregation,,” Tennessee Law Review, 2021.
- W.C. Bunting, “The Impact of Data Mining on Information Disclosure by Regulatory Agencies: With an Application to Redlining,” Harvard Journal on Legislation , 2019.
- W.C. Bunting, “Unlocking the Housing-Related Benefits of Telework: A Case for Government Intervention,” Real Estate Law Journal, 2017.
- W.C. Bunting, “Resolving Conflicts over Scarce Resources: Private versus Shared Ownership,” Marquette Law Review , 2016.
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