Sofie Cools
S.J.D. Candidate
PhD Candidate Catholic University of Leuven (FWO Fellow)
scools at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Dissertation
Combining Dispersed Stock Ownership and Strong Shareholders. A Comparative and Empirical Analysis.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Comparative Corporate Law with Professor Mark Roe, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Corporate Law Theory with Professor Reinier Kraakman, Harvard Law School
- Empirical Corporate Law with Professor Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Financial Law
- Securities Regulation
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate, 2009 – Present
- Catholic University of Leuven, PhD Candidate, 2009 - Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. 2004
- Catholic University of Leuven, Lic. Law 2003
- Catholic University of Leuven, Cand. Law 2000
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Research Foundation Flanders, Doctoral fellow, 2009 – Present
- University of Leuven, Teaching assistant, 2005-2009
- Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires), Visiting lecturer, 2006
- Harvard Law School, Irving Oberman Memorial Award, 2004
- Universities of Maastricht, Leuven and Utrecht, Ius Commune Prize, 2004
- Francqui Foundation, Fellow, 2003-2004
- Belgian American Educational Foundation, Graduate fellow, 2003-2004
Representative Publications
- Sofie Cools, The Real Difference in Corporate Law Between the United States and Continental Europe: Distribution of Powers, 30 Del. J. Corp. L. 697 (2005)
- Sofie Cools, Europe’s Ius Commune on Director Revocability, 8 EUR. COMPANY & FIN. L. REV. 199 (2011)
Additional Information
- Languages: English, Dutch, French, German