Mark J. Roe

David Berg Professor of Law

Office:	Griswold 502
Assistant:	Anastasia Tolu (617) 496-2030
Phone:	(617) 495-8099
Fax:	(617) 495-4299
Email:	mroe@law.harvard.edu

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Bibliography

Books

Roe, Mark J. Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization: Legal and Financial Materials (Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press 3d ed. 2011).

Roe, Mark J. Corporate Governance: Political and Legal Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing 2005).
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)

Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance Systems (Mark J. Roe & Jeffrey Gordon eds., Cambridge University Press 2004).
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Roe, Mark J. Political Determinants of Corporate Governance (Oxford University Press 2003).
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Employees and Corporate Governance (Mark J. Roe & Margaret Blair eds., Brookings Institute 1999).
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Cross-Border Views of Corporate Governance (Mark J. Roe ed., Columbia Business and Law Review 1 ed. 1998).

Roe, Mark J. Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton University Press 1994).
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Shorter Works in Collection

Roe, Mark J. "A Political Theory of American Corporate Finance" in Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy 290 (Thomas W. Joo ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2010).

Roe, Mark J. "Capital Markets and Financial Politics: Preferences and Institutions" in Capitalism (Dennis Mueller ed., Oxford University Press, forthcoming2010).

Roe, Mark J. "Juries and the Political Economy of Legal Origin" in Perspectives in Company Law and Financial Regulation : Essays in Honour of Eddy Wymeersch (Michael Tison ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Roe, Mark J. "On Sacrificing Profits in the Public Interest" in Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms 88 (Robert Stavins ed., RFF Press, 2005).

Roe, Mark J. "Explaining Western Securities Markets" in Corporate Governance: Accountability, Enterprise and International Comparisons 235 (Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson & Mike Wright eds., John Wiley, 2005).

Roe, Mark J. "The Institutions of Corporate Governance" in Handbook of New Institutional Economics 371 (Claude Menard & Mary M. Shirley eds., Springer, 2005).

Roe, Mark J. "Explaining Western Securities Markets" in Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Strucutural Forms 279 (Anna Grandori ed., Oxford University Press, 2004).

Roe, Mark J. "The Inevitable Instability of American Corporate Governance" in Restoring Trust in American Business 7 (American Academy of Arts and Sciences ed., MIT Press, forthcoming 2004).

Roe, Mark J. "Labor Policy and Shareholder Primacy (in Japanese)" in Amerika-gata keizai shakai no nimensei: shijo ronri to shakaiteki wakugumi (Shibuya, Imura & Hanzaki eds., 2001).

Roe, Mark J. & Ronald Gilson. "The Political Economy of Japanese Lifetime Employment" in Employees and Corporate Governance (Margaret Blair & Mark Roe eds., Brookings Institution, 1999).

Roe, Mark J. "Comparative Corporate Governance" in Palgrave Dictionary on Law and Economics (1998).

Roe, Mark J. "Mutual Funds in the Boardroom" in Studies in International Corporate Finance and Governance Systems 174 (1997).

Roe, Mark J. "From Antitrust to Corporate Governance: The Corporation and the Law, 1959-1995" in The American Corporation Today 102 (Carl Kaysen ed., 1996).

Roe, Mark J. "German 'Populism' and the Large Public Corporation" in European Economic and Business Law: Legal and Economic Analyses on Integration and Harmonization 241 (Richard Buxbaum et al ed., 1996).

Roe, Mark J. "The Voting Prohibition in bond Workouts" in Corporate Bankruptcy 181 (Jagdeep Bhandari & Lawrence Weiss eds., 1996).

Roe, Mark J. "Bankruptcy and Debt: A New Model for Corporate Reorganization" in Corporate Bankruptcy 351 (Jagdeep Bhandari & Lawrence Weiss eds., 1996).

Roe, Mark J. "Commentary on 'On the Nature of Bankruptcy': Banckruptcy, Priority, and Economics" in Corporate Bankruptcy 181 (Jagdeep Bhandari & Lawrence Weiss eds., 1996).

Roe, Mark J. "Takeover Politics" in The Deal Decade 321 (Brookings Institution, 1993).

Roe, Mark J. "Einige Unterschiede bei der Leitung von Unternehmen in Deutschland und Amerika" in Okonomische Analyse des Unternehmensrechts 333 (Claus Ott & Hans-Bernd Schafer eds., 1993).

Roe, Mark J. "Mutual funds in the Boardroom" in Modernizing U.S. Securities Regulations--Economic and Legal Perspectives 261 (Kenneth Lehn & Robert Kamphuis eds., 1992).

Roe, Mark J. "Institutional Fiduciaries in the Corporate Boardroom" in Institutional Investors: Challengers and Responsibilities 292 (Arnold Sametz & james Bicksler eds., 1991).

Roe, Mark J. "Institutional Fiduciaries in the Boardroom" in Institutional Investing--Challenges and Responsibilities of the 21st Century (Arnold W. Sametz ed., McGraw-Hill, 1991).

Roe, Mark J. "Path Dependence, Political Options, and Governance Systems" in Comparative Corporate Governance 165 (Klaus Hopt & Eddy Wymeersch eds., 1977).

Articles in a Periodical

Roe, Mark J. "The Derivatives Players' Payment Priorities as Financial Crisis Accelerator," 63 Stanford Law Review 539 (2011).
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Roe, Mark J. "The Derivatives Market's Payment Priorities as Financial Crisis Accelerator," 63 Stan. L. Rev. 539 (2011).

Roe, Mark J. & David Skeel. "Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy," 108 Michigan Law Review 727 (2010).

Roe, Mark J. "Delaware's Shrinking Half-Life," 62 Stanford Law Review 125 (2009).

Jackson, Howell & Mark J. Roe. "Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence," 93 Journal of Financial Economics 207 (2009).

Roe, Mark J. "Washington and Delaware as Corporate Lawmakers," 34 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 1 (2009).
(Pileggi lecture)

Roe, Mark J. & Jordan Siegel. "Finance and Politics: A Review Essay," 47 Journal of Economic Literature 782 (2009).

Roe, Mark J. "Is Delaware's Corporate Law Too Big to Fail?" 74 Brooklyn Law Review 75 (2008).
(Pomerantz Lecture)

Roe, Mark J. "Juries and the Political Economy of Legal Origin," 35 Journal of Comparative Economics 294 (2007).

Roe, Mark J. "Legal Origin and Modern Stock Markets," 120 Harvard Law Review 460 (2006) (article review).
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Roe, Mark J. "Delaware's Politics," 118 Harvard Law Review 2491 (2005).
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Roe, Mark J. "Delaware's Competition," 117 Harvard Law Review 588 (2003).
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Roe, Mark J. "Les rentes et leurs consequences en matiere de gouvernance des enterprises," 5 Finance Control Strategie 167 (2002).

Roe, Mark J. "Can Culture Constrain the Economic Model of Corporate Law?" 69 University of Chicago Law Review 1255 (2002).
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Roe, Mark J. "La structure de l'actionnariat: les limites de la theorie juridique," numeral special <<L'actionnaire>> Revue Francaise de Gestation (2002).

Roe, Mark J. "Corporate Law's Limits," 31 Journal of Legal Studies 233 (2002).
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Roe, Mark J. "Rents and Their Corporate Consequences," 53 Stanford Law Review 1463 (2001).
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Roe, Mark J. "Les conditions politiques au development de la firme manageriale," 4 Finance Controle Strategie 123 (2001).

Roe, Mark J. "The Shareholder Wealth Maximation Norm and Industrial Organizations," 149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2063 (2001).

Roe, Mark J. "Political Preconditions to Separating Ownership from Corporate Control," 53 Stanford Law Review 1463 (2000).
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Roe, Mark J. & Lucian A. Bebchuk. "A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance," 52 Stanford Law Review 127 (1999).
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(Reprinted in Foundations of Corporate Law, 2nd ed., (Romano, ed., 2010); Translated into Mandarin and reprinted in 26 Graduate Law Review 126 (2011) (Ning Guijun, translator))

Roe, Mark J. "German Codetermination and German Securities Markets," 5 Columbia Journal of European Law 199 (1999).
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Roe, Mark J. & Ronald Gilson. "Lifetime Employment: Labor Peace and the Evolution of Japanese Corporate Governance," 99 Columbia Law Review 508 (1999).
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Roe, Mark J., Gerard Charreaux, Jean-Pierre Daviet, Michel Hau, Chris Kobrak & Jean-Michel Saussois. "La Corporate Governance en Perspective," 21 Entreprises et Histoire 100 (1999).

Roe, Mark J. "German Securities Markets and German Codeterminism," 98 Columbia Business Law Review 167 (1998).
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Roe, Mark J. "Backlash," 98 Columbia Law Review 217 (1998).
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Roe, Mark J. "The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance," 9 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 8 (1997).

Roe, Mark J. "Chaos and Evolution in Law and Economics," 109 Harvard Law Review 641 (1996).
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Roe, Mark J. "The Modern Corporation and Private Pensions: Strong Managers, Weak Owners," 8 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 111 (1995).

Roe, Mark J. "German 'Populism' and the Large Public Corporation," 14 International Review of Law and Economics 187 (1994).

Roe, Mark J. "The Modern Corporation and Private Pensions," 41 UCLA Law Review 75 (1993).

Roe, Mark J. "Some Differences in Corporate Structure in Germany, Japan, and the United States," 102 Yale Law Journal 1927 (1993).

Roe, Mark J. "Foundations of Corporate Finance: The 1906 Pacification of the Insurance Industry," 93 Columbia Law Review 639 (1993).

Roe, Mark J. & Ronald Gilson. "Understanding Japanese Keiretsu: Overlaps Between Corporate Governance and Industrial Organization," 102 Yale Law Review 871 (1993).

Roe, Mark J. "Mutual Funds in the Boardroom," Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 1993, at 56.

Roe, Mark J. "Political Elements in the Creation of a Mutual Fund Industry," 139 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1469 (1991).

Roe, Mark J. "Political and Legal Restraints on Corporate Control," 27 Journal of Financial Economics 7 (1990).

Articles in a Newspaper

Roe, Mark J. "America's First Debt Crisis," Project Syndicate, August 8, 2011.
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Roe, Mark J. "Economic Future of Egypt's Revolution," Project Syndicate, Feb, 21, 2011.
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Roe, Mark J. "Derivatives Clearinghouses Are No Magic Bullet," Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2010, A19.

Roe, Mark J. "More Corporate Lobbying is Bad Business," Financial Times (FT.com), Jan 25, 2010.
(on the Supreme Court's corporate speech decision)

Roe, Mark J. "End Bankruptcy Priority for Derivatives, Repos and Swaps," FT.com, Dec. 15, 2009.

Roe, Mark J. "What Happens When the Government Enters the Ring?" Forbes.com, July 21, 2009.

Roe, Mark J. "Stress-Testing Washington's Chrysler Bankruptcy Plan," Forbes.com, May 13, 2009.

Roe, Mark J. "Would a GM Bankruptcy Crash Its Suppliers?" The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 2, 2009, Opinion, at A13.

Roe, Mark J. "Clearing the Boardrooms Like GM's," The Wall Street Journal, October 27, 1992, A, at A14.

Roe, Mark J. "That Menace, The Small Shareholder," The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 1992, A, at A12.

Roe, Mark J. "...Or Free Speech for Shareholders?" The Wall Street Journal, December 18, 1991, A, at A14.

Working or Discussion Papers

Roe, Mark J. & Jordan I. Siegel. "Political Instability: Its Effects on Financial Development, Its Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality" (2010).

Bebchuk, Lucian A., Allen Ferrell, Reinier H. Kraakman, Mark J. Roe & Guhan Subramanian. "Placing Election Bylaws on the Corporate Ballot," Harvard PON Working Paper, No. 915403 (2005).
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Works in Progress

Roe, Mark J. The Political Economy of Shareholder Access, in Delaware and in Washington (2010).

Roe, Mark J. Capital Markets and Financial Politics: Preferences and Institutions (2010).