FREE ENTERPRISE PROJECT DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Stefan Padfield is the Deputy Director at the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP), which is the original and premier opponent of the woke takeover of American corporate life.
FEP files shareholder resolutions, engages corporate CEOs and board members, submits public comments, engages state and federal leaders, crafts legislation, files lawsuits and directs media campaigns to push corporations to respect their fiduciary obligations and to stay out of political and social engineering.
Prior to joining FEP, Stefan spent over 15 years teaching law at the University of Akron School of Law, publishing over 15 law review articles and a book chapter. He co-authored a two-volume mini-treatise on the history of economic thought and contributed to the Business Law Prof Blog.
Stefan previously worked in private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and clerked for two federal court judges. Stefan originally emigrated to the U.S. as a child, later becoming a U.S. citizen and serving 6 years in the U.S. Army.
Stefan earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University.
An archive of Stefan’s scholarly papers can be found here.
FEATURED APPEARANCES
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FEATURED ARTICLES
That Starbucks DEI Case Doesn’t Stand for What You Think It Does (Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, April 2024)
Larry Fink’s Investor Letter Ignores Elephants In BlackRock’s Room (RealClearMarkets, April 2024)
Are We Witnessing the Retreat of Woke Capital? (Human Events, April 2024)
The Shareholder Activism of Anti-Discrimination Proponents (Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, April 2024)
Shareholders Must Protect Their Voting Rights to Protect Their Profits (Newsmax, February 2024)
Asked About Its $244 Million BLM Donation, Microsoft Told Its Investors to Pound Sand (The Hill, December 2023)
Are the Big 5 Liars? (Newsmax, November 2023)
Radicalism Behind Corporate Silence to Hamas Atrocities (Newsmax, November 2023)
Nasdaq’s Absurd Diversity Rule Will Replace Women With Men Who Identify As Women to Achieve Equality for Women (The Daily Caller, October 2023)
ESG, DEI & Antisemitism (Newsmax, October 2023)
How Starbucks Avoided Accountability for Racial Discrimination (Washington Times, October 2023)
Do Asset Managers Hate Their Conservative Clients? (Newsmax, October 2023)
ESG Proponents Falsely Claim to Be Capitalists (Newsmax, September 2023)
Directors Need to Account for Reverse Discrimination (Newsmax, September 2023)
Questions Every Corporate Director Should Answer in a Post-Woke World (Enter Stage Right, September 2023)
This Labor Day, Reflect on Why ESG Is Bad for Workers (Newsmax, August 2023)
Break Up Overboarding to Break Up Woke Capitalism (Newsmax, August 2023)
The ‘Hypothetical Conflict’ That May Be at the Root of Disney’s Woes (InsideSources, August 2023)
Corporate America’s Radicalization Enabled by True Believers, Useful Idiots, Opportunists and Cowards (InsideSources, August 2023)
Is Disney Complicit in Hate Speech? (Daily Caller, July 2023)
The Pro-Fiduciary Duty Movement is Winning (Newsmax, June 2023)
Are Corporate Boards Breaching Their Fiduciary Duties by Embracing Transgenderism? (The Washington Times, June 2023)