Lucian A. Bebchuk

William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance

Director, Program on Corporate Governance

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1985
• Professor of Law, 1988
• Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, 1994
• William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, 1998
• Director, Program on Corporate Governance, 2003

Education

• University of Haifa B.A. 1977, Mathematics and Economics
• University of Tel Aviv School of Law LL.B. 1979
• Harvard Law School LL.M. 1980
• Harvard Law School S.J.D. 1984
• Harvard University M.A. 1992, Economics
• Harvard University Ph.D. 1993, Economics

Research Interests

• Corporate Governance
• Law and Finance
• Law and Economics

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Bankruptcy
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Mergers and Takeovers
• Corporate Reorganization
• Economic Analysis of Law

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Corporate Finance
• Corporations
• Law and Economics

Representative Publications

• Bebchuk, Lucian A. "The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise," 93 Virginia Law Review 675 (2007).
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• Bebchuk, Lucian A. "Letting Shareholders Set the Rules," 119 Harv. L. Rev. 1784 (2006).
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• Bebchuk, Lucian A. "The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power," 118 Harvard Law Review 833 (2005).
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  (Reprinted in Foundations of Corporate Law, 2nd ed., (Romano, ed., 2010))
  
• Bebchuk, Lucian A. & Jesse Fried. Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (Harvard University Press 2004).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Bebchuk, Lucian A. & Jesse Fried. "Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem," 17 Journal of Economic Perspectives 71 (2003).
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  (Reprinted in The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader, 3rd ed., (Putterman and Kroszner, eds., 2009)
  
• Bebchuk, Lucian A. "The Case Against Board Veto in Corporate Takeovers," 69 University of Chicago Law Review 973 (2002).
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Bibliography

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