The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

This blog provides updates on working papers, seminars, speakers, and other activities sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance. "The blog will also provide a forum for communications about corporate governance by individuals associated with the program—faculty, fellows, and members of the program’s advisory board—as well as by guest contributors and others."

Author: Robert Jackson is the blawg's managing editor; among other HLS faculty contributors are Lucian Bebchuk, John C. Coates, Allen Ferrell, Reinier H. Kraakman and Robert H. Sitkoff. Other contributors: Theodore Mirvis, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York City; Robert A.G. Monks, principal, Lens Governance Advisors; Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Widener University School of Law; Broc Romanek, who also authors TheCorporateCounsel.net and DealLawyers.com; Lynn A. Stout, University of California-Los Angeles School of Law; Andrea Unterberger, Corporation Service Company; Michael S. Weisbach, University of Illinois;J. Robert Brown, Jr., University of Denver Sturm College of Law; and Sandeep Gopalan, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; Brown and Gopalan also contribute to Race to the Bottom.

Recent Posts from The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

Executive Compensation for the 2009-2010 Season
Charles M. Nathan is a corporate partner at Latham & Watkins LLP and Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group.This post comes is based on a Latham & Watkins LLP client memorandum by…
The Merger Agreement as a Contract
Recently, in the Mergers and Acquisitions course at Harvard Law School, three preeminent M&A practitioners discussed the Merger Agreement as a Contract with Vice Chancellor Leo Strine, Jr., who teaches the class. The panelists were…
Regulation and Class Actions
This post comes to us from Eric Helland of Claremont McKenna College and Jonathan Klick of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Regulation and litigation do not occur in isolation. In almost every case of…
Too Big to Save: How to Fix the US Financial System
This post is a review of Robert Pozen’s recent book, “Too Big to Save: How to Fix the US Financial System” by Sean Cameron, MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School. Bob Pozen’s book, Too Big…
The House and Senate Debate Resolution Authority
Annette Nazareth is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. This post is based on a Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP client memorandum by Ms. Nazareth together with Donald…
The Wrong Prescription? Revisiting the Justification for Poison Pills
This post comes to us from Mark Lebovitch and Laura Gundersheim. Mark Lebovitch is a partner at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, where he is primarily responsible for the firm’s corporate governance litigation practice.…
Bob Monks Delivers Lecture on Shareholder Activism
Robert Monks, a legendary shareholder activist and founder of ISS (which was later acquired by RiskMetrics) and the Corporate Library, recently gave a talk as part of the Shareholder Activism course here at Harvard Law…
Shareholders: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
(Editor’s Note: This post is based on an article that first appeared in the Atlantic.) As we now know all too well, the credit crisis and the global recession stemmed, in important part, from stark…
Pensions and Corporate Capital Structure Decisions
(Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Anil Shivdasani of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Irina Stefanescu of Indiana University.) In our paper, How Do Pensions Affect Corporate Capital Structure…
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: A Poor Framework for Risk Analysis by Both Investors and Directors
(Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Sanford J. Lewis, Counsel to the Investor Environmental Health Network.) A clash is emerging between the needs and duties of directors and investors to manage risks, and…