Office: 328 RBC Phone: 610-758-0912 Fax: 610-758-6449 Email: mam9@lehigh.edu Legal Environment of Business Business Law Legal Aspects of Corporate Governance Legal Aspects of Supply Chain Management

Perella Department of Finance and Law:  Professor

Education
-  Villanova University, B.S., M.S.
-  University of Pennsylvania, J.D.

Matthew A. Melone teaches Legal Environment of Business, a core requirement, and Business Law. He also teaches various courses in the graduate program including Legal Aspects of Corporate Governance and Legal Aspects of Supply Chain Management. Professor Melone's research interests are concentrated in the area of federal income taxation and corporate governance. He has written extensively about comparative forms of doing business, executive compensation, partnership taxation, and accounting standards. He has written over 60 articles in various law reviews and tax journals.

Professor Melone began his academic career at Lehigh in 1993. Prior to his joining the Lehigh faculty he was engaged in private practice. Professor Melone is a Certified Public Accountant and received the Alexander E. Loeb Award for attaining the highest score in the Commonwealth of Pa. on the C.P.A. exam.

Research Interests

• Corporate governance
• Federal income taxation
• Executive compensation

Publications and Working Papers

• Analysis of Proposed 409A Regulations-Part 2: Design and Operational Requirements, 8 Bus. Entities 4 (April 2006).
• Proposed 409A Regulations-Part 1: Deferred Compensation Subject to Section 409A, 8 Bus. Entities 18 (Feb. 2006).
• Partnership Provisions of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, 7 Bus. Entities 14 (May, 2005).
• S Corporation Rules Liberalized by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, 7 Bus. Entities 20 (March, 2005).
• Roundup of Significant Income Tax Developments in 2004, 74 Tax Strategies 26 (2005).
• United States Accounting Standards-Rules or Principles? The Devil is Not in the Details, 58 U. Miami L. Rev. 1161 (2004).
• Final Intangible Asset Regulations Make significant Changes in Proposed Rules, 31 Corp. Tax. 15 (2004).
• Are Compensatory Stock Options Worth Reforming?, 38 Gonzaga L. Rev. 535 (2003).

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