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

TARP, ‘Say on Pay’ and Other Legislative Developments
(Editors note: This post by Joseph E. Bachelder recently appeared in the New York Law Jounal.) Executive pay is being buffeted. It has been the subject of much legislative and other attention. The Troubled Assets…
Why do Insiders Trade?
(Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Juha-Pekka Kallunki of the University Of Oulu, and Henrik Nilsson and Jörgen Hellström of Umeå University.) Many studies examine whether insiders’ trading activity is informative regarding future…
The American Corporation and its Shareholders: Dooryard Visits Disallowed?
(Editor’s Note: The post below by Commissioner Walter is a transcript of remarks by her at the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals on June 27, 2009 in San Diego.) I am delighted to…
Why the SEC should not further restrain short selling
The hedge fund coalition that I chair, the Coalition of Private Investment Companies (CPIC), recently submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which we laid out our case for why…
SEC Advocates Broad Reforms of Synthetic Ownership Instruments and Markets
(Editor’s Note: This post is based on a client memo by Theodore N. Mirvis and Adam O. Emmerich of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.) As we have pointed out for some time, non-traditional structured and…
Financial Visibility and Going Private
(Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Hamid Mehran and Stavros Peristiani of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.) In our forthcoming Review of Financial Studies paper Financial Visibility and the Decision to…
The Proper Limits of Shareholder Proxy Access
(Editor’s Note: The post below by Commissioner Paredes is a transcript of remarks by him at the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 23, 2009 in Washington, D.C.) It is…
Toxic Tests
Editor’s Note: This post is Lucian Bebchuk’s current column in his series of monthly commentaries titled “The Rules of the Game” for the international association of newpapers Project Syndicate. The series focuses on finance and…
Retaining Key Target Employees: Lessons For Acquirors
This post is by my colleagues Jonathan Layne, Mark Lahive and Ben Ross. Common issues confronting acquirors involve retaining the target company’s key employees and protecting against the loss of business to defecting employees. A…
Modernizing Pension Fund Legal Standards
(Editor’s Note: This post comes from Keith L. Johnson, Program Director for the International Corporate Governance Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and Frank Jan de Graaf, Professor of International Business at Hanze…