Reinier H. Kraakman

Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Business Law
• Comparative Company Law
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Takeovers
• Limited Liability
• Shareholder-Derivative Suits
• Third-Party Enforcement Strategies

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Law

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Mergers and Takeovers

Education

• University of Frankfurt 1971, Fulbright Fellowship in Sociology
• Harvard College B.A. 1971, History and Science
• Harvard University 1973, Sociology Ph.D. Program
• Yale Law School J.D. 1979

Appointments

• Visiting Professor of Law, 1986
• Professor of Law, 1987
• Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law, 1998

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (Reinier H. Kraakman et al. eds., Oxford University Press 2d ed. 2009).
  
• Kraakman, Reinier H. & Henry Hansmann. "The Essential Role of Organizational Law," 110 Yale Law Journal 387 (2000).
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• Kraakman, Reinier H., Bernard Black & Anna Tarassova. "Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong?" 52 Stanford Law Review 1731 (2000).
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• Kraakman, Reinier H. & Bernard Black. "A Self-Enforcing Model of Corporate Law," 109 Harvard Law Review 1911 (1996) (article review).
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• Gilson, Ronald J. & Reinier H. Kraakman. "Reinventing the Outside Director: An Agenda for Institutional Investors," 43 Stanford Law Review 863 (1991).
  
• Hansmann, Henry & Reinier H. Kraakman. "The Uneasy Case for Limiting Shareholder Liability in Tort," 100 Yale Law Journal 1879 (1991).
  

Bibliography

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