SJD Candidates
Holger Spamann
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S.J.D. & Ph.D. Candidate
Terence M. Considine Fellow
| Status: | in residence |
| Email: | hspamann at law.harvard.edu |
Dissertation
Legal Origins and Capital Markets Development
Influential quantitative cross-country studies find a correlation between the 'legal origin' of a country's legal system (i.e., Common Law, and French, German, and Scandinavian Civil Law) and specific legal rules, and between such rules and various measures of financial and economic development. My research seeks to elucidate this phenomenon.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Comparative Corporate Governance, with Professor Mark J. Roe, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Corporate Law Theory, with Professor Lucian A. Bebchuk, Harvard Law School
- Law & Economics, with Professor Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Private International Law
- WTO Law
Education
- Harvard University GSAS, Ph.D. Candidate (Econ.) 2006-Present
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2004-Present
- London School of Economics, London, England, B.Sc. (Econ.) 2006
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, Certificate in English Legal Methods 2005
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program 2000-2001
- University / Court of Appeals of Hamburg, Germany, First State Exam 1999, Second State Exam 2005
- University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris, France, Maîtrise en Droit Privé 1996
Representative Publications
- On the Insignificance and/or Endogeneity of La Porta et al.'s 'Anti-Director Rights Index' under Consistent Coding, Harvard Olin Fellows Discussion Paper No. 7/2006 = ECGI Law Working Paper No. 67/2006 (paper) (ADRI data documentation) (ADRI data .xls) (full dataset .dta)
- The Myth of 'Rebalancing' Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement Practice, 9 Journal of International Economic Law 31 (2006) (doi:10.1093/jiel/jgi054) (abstract) (full text)
- Choice of Law in a Federal System and an Internal Market, Jean Monnet Working Paper 8/01 (2001)
Additional Information
- spamann.net
- Languages: English, German, French, Russian, Spanish (reading only)