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Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Don’t Make Poison Pills More Deadly, New York Times DealBook, February 07, 2013
SEC proposes corporate political spending rules urged by Bebchuk, committee, 1/2013
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Corporate Short-Termism in the Fiscal Cliff’s Shadow, Project Syndicate, 12/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Voluntary Disclosure on Corporate Political Spending Is Not Enough, New York Times DealBook, 12/17/12
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Letting Shareholders Know How Their Money Is Spent, New York Times DealBook, 11/2012
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance, 11/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: For Whom Golden Parachutes Shine, New York Times DealBook, 10/2012
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Money-Market Resistance, Project Syndicate, 10/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Investing in Good Governance, New York Times DealBook, 9/2012
Eight HLS faculty ranked in "High-Impact List" for corporate governance field, 8/2012
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Spooked by Glass-Steagall’s Ghost?, Project Syndicate, 8/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Don’t Discourage Outside Shareholders, New York Times DealBook, 8/2012
Bebchuk named among most influential people in finance, 7/2012
Harvard Law School faculty contribute significantly to the list of most-cited law review articles, 6/2012
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Greece and the Limits of Anti-Austerity, Project Syndicate, 6/2012
In the driver’s seat: The changing role of general counsel, 6/2012
Yinzhi Miao and Alexander Zalivako awarded the Victor Brudney Prize for work in corporate governance, 6/2012
Rulemaking petition on political spending attracts massive support from over 250,000 comments filed with the SEC, 6/2012
Harvard Law School Corporate Faculty Contribute Five Most-Cited Law Review Articles, 6/2012
Student article named one of 2011's ten best corporate and securities articles, 5/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Giving Shareholders a Voice, New York Times DealBook, 4/2012
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: How Brazil Broke Loose, Project Syndicate, 4/2012
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Tobin Trouble, Project Syndicate, 2/2012
On World Bank blog, Bebchuk debates executive compensation, 2/2012
Bebchuk testifies before Senate Banking committee, 2/2012
Bebchuk, Shavell, Kaplow, Fried, and Cohen Make SSRN’s Top Ten List, 1/2012
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Reforming Repo Rules, Project Syndicate, 12/2011
Op-Ed by Morgan Ricks: A Former Treasury Adviser On How To Really Fix Wall Street, New Republic, 12/2011
Coates testifies on investor risks in capital raising, 12/2011
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Clearinghouse Over-Confidence, Project Syndicate, 10/2011
Bebchuk Recognized for Excellence in Corporate Governance, 9/2011
Op-Ed by James Kwak: One Thing Can Stop Corporations From Buying the 2012 Election: Transparency, Atlantic, 9/2011
Op-Ed by John Coates and Taylor Lincoln: Fulfilling the Promise of 'Citizens United,' Washington Post, 9/2011
Committee co-chaired by Bebchuk submits SEC rulemaking petition on political spending, 8/2011
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: America’s First Debt Crisis, Project Syndicate, 8/2011
Scott in Financial Times: Little to celebrate on Dodd-Frank’s birthday, 7/2011
Op-Ed by James Kwak: What Do You Mean, 'Government Is Too Big'?, Atlantic, 7/2011
Cohen wins 2011 Robert C. Witt Award, 7/2011
Bebchuk Named President-Elect of the Western Economic Association International, 7/2011
Wilkins and Heineman in the American Lawyer: On representing controversial clients, 7/2011
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: How Capitalist is America?, Project Syndicate, 6/2011
Scott testifies before House Committee on Financial Services, 6/2011
Harvard faculty and fellows contribute most of the ‘Top Ten Corporate and Securities Law Articles’ of 2010, 6/2011
Three from HLS named to American Philosophical Society, 5/2011
Ferrell study inspires FINRA rule changes: 'The Law and Finance of Broker-Dealer Mark-Ups', 4/2011
Holger Spamann appointed as Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard, 4/2011
Scott in WSJ: Capital Market Regulation Needs an Overhaul, 4/2011
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Fukushima and Derivatives Meltdowns, Project Syndicate, 4/2010
Scott to testify on urgently-needed fixes in the Dodd-Frank rulemaking process, 4/2011
PIFS hosts symposium on building 21st century financial system, 3/2011
Sitkoff named to drafting committee for Uniform Act on Powers of Appointment, 3/2011
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: The Economic Future of Egypt's Revolution, Project Syndicate, 2/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: An Antidote for the Corporate Poison Pill, Wall Street Journal, 2/2011
Scott testifies before House Committee on Financial Services, 1/2011
Harvard Corporate Faculty Lead SSRN Rankings, 1/2011
Bebchuk named 2010 'Governance Star', 12/2010
Scott, CCMR urge Senate and House committees to review pace of rulemaking under Dodd-Frank, 12/2010
Sitkoff essay on law reform in trusts and estates appears in JOTWELL, 12/2010
Scott and Committee on Capital Markets Regulation issue report on 2010 performance of U.S. public equity markets, 12/2010
Scott advises the Financial Stability Oversight Council on the Dodd-Frank Act, 12/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Pricing Corporate Governance, Project Syndicate, 11/2010
Sitkoff elected Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 10/2010
Coates examines costs of corporate political activity to shareholders, 10/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Politics and Corporate Money, Project Syndicate, 9/2010
Latest CCMR study confirms resumed deterioration in competitiveness of U.S. public equity markets, 9/2010
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance, 9/2010
Scott urges major Federal Reserve input to CFTC rules on conflicts of interest in derivatives clearinghouses, 9/2010
The Directorship 100, Directorship Magazine, 9/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried: Tackling the Managerial Power Problem: The Key to Improving Executive Compensation, Pathways Magazine, 8/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Why Bankers' Pay is the Government's Business, Economist.com, 8/2010
Op-Ed by Glenn Hubbard and Hal S. Scott: Geithner's Hollow 'Speed' Pledge to Business, Wall Street Journal, 8/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: How to Pay a Banker, Project Syndicate, 7/2010
Corporate Governance Network debuts new E-Journal, 7/2010
Faculty Scholarship: Bebchuk, Cohen and Spamman on Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, 7/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Don't Gut Proxy Access, New York Times DealBook, 6/2010
Lucian Bebchuk's Keynote Speech at the ICGN Annual Meeting, 6/2010
Committee on Capital Market Regulation releases data showing that U.S. public equity markets deteriorated in Q1 2010, 6/2010
Andrew Tuch awarded the Victor Brudney Prize for work in corporate governance, 6/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Rating the Raters, Project Syndicate, 5/2010
Coates testifies before House committee in support of Disclose Act, 5/2010
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Derivatives Clearinghouses are No Magic Bullet, 5/2010
A view from the brink, 5/2010
Committee on Capital Markets Regulation proposes blueprint for compromise on financial reform, 4/2010
In 'Negotiauctions,' Guhan Subramanian explores the messy middle ground in corporate deals, 4/2010
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance, 3/2010
CCMR Report: Competitiveness of U.S. public equity markets improved slightly in '09, 3/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann: Paid to Fail, Project Syndicate, 3/2010
Harvard Corporate Faculty Lead SSRN Rankings, 3/2010
Committee on Capital Markets Regulation proposes Fed-regulated clearinghouses to reduce systemic risk, 3/2010
Scott named co-chair of new Council on Global Financial Regulation, 2/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Corporate Political Speech is Bad for Shareholders, Project Syndicate, 2/2010
Scott testifies before Senate Banking Committee regarding Volcker Rules, 2/2010
NYU Journal of Law and Business hosts symposium on legal aftershocks of the global financial crisis, 2/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer: The CEO Pay Slice, Project Syndicate, 1/2010
Corporate consequences of the Supreme Court’s speech decision last week: an op-ed by Mark Roe, 1/2010
Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services Committee, 1/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Who Should Be Bailed Out?, Project Syndicate, 12/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann: Bankers had Cashed in Before the Music Stopped, Financial Times, 12/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried: Taming the Stock Option Game, Project Syndicate, 11/2009
Sitkoff in WSJ on Cadbury-Hershey, 11/2009
Scott: Foreign suits reward plaintiffs that discriminate against U.S. firms, 11/2009
Corporate governance experts participate in Proxy Access Roundtable at HLS, 11/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Should Bondholders be Bailed Out?, Project Syndicate, 10/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Holger Spamann: Reducing Incentives for Risk-Taking, New York Times: Dealbook, 10/2009
"The recent financial crisis highlighted what can go wrong when pay arrangements are not properly structured," says Jesse Fried, 10/2009
Harvard Law financial experts explore lessons of the global economic crisis, 10/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Unblocking Corporate Governance Reform, Project Syndicate, 9/2009
HLS professors join amicus brief in Supreme Court Investment Advisor Case, 9/2009
Op-Ed by Hal Scott: Regulatory Reform Needs Rethink, Financial News Online, 9/2009
Professors Push Changes to SEC Reform, The Harvard Crimson, 9/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Why Financial Pay Shouldn't be Left to the Market, Project Syndicate, 8/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Bonus Guarantees Can Fuel Risky Moves, Wall Street Journal Online, 8/2009
Op-Ed by Hal Scott: The Fed's independence is at risk, Financial Times, 8/2009
Bebchuk leads charge urging SEC to give corporate shareholders more rights, 8/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Regulate Financial Pay to Reduce Risk-Taking, Financial Times, 8/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen: Back to the Good Times on Wall Street, Wall Street Journal Online, 7/2009
Coates testifies before Senate subcommittee on improving corporate governance, 7/2009
In Senate testimony, Scott advised on reform of insurance industry regulation, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Let the Good Times Roll Again?, Project Syndicate, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Paying for Performance at Goldman, Wall Street Journal Online, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Hal Scott: The Fed can lead on financial supervision, Wall Street Journal Online, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: What Happens When the Government Enters the Ring?, Forbes, 7/2009
Works by HLS faculty most downloaded on SSRN,, 7/2009
Coates proposes tax and regulatory reforms for mutual funds,, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The Fall of the Toxic-Assets Plan, Wall Street Journal Online, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: How to make a petrol tax politically viable, Financial Times, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Toxic Tests, Project Syndicate, 6/2009
Bebchuk and Fried participate in Harvard Business Review debate on executive compensation, 6/2009
Scott and Committee on Capital Markets Regulation issue major report urging financial regulatory reform, 6/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried: Equity Compensation for Long-Term Results, Wall Street Journal Online, 6/2009
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: The Chrysler Bankruptcy Sale: An Assessment, Forbes, 6/2009
WEBCAST: Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services committee, 6/2009
Jesse Fried will join HLS faculty, 6/2009
Op-Ed by Reinier Kraakman: The Directors Guild, New York Times, 6/2009
Pavlos Masouros, Roy Shapira and Holger Spamann awarded the Victor Brudney Prize for work in corporate governance, 6/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The False Promise of Global Governance Standards, Project Syndicate, 5/2009
Op-Ed: by Lucian Bebchuk: The SEC's Proxy Access Proposal, Wall Street Journal Online, 5/2009
Op-Ed: by Mark Roe: Delayed Petrol Tax Beats CAFE Plan, Financial Times, 5/2009
Op-Ed: by Lucian Bebchuk: Near-Sighted Stress Tests, Forbes.com, 5/2009
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: Stress Testing the Government's Chyrsler Plan, Forbes, 5/2009
How "the bailout is robbing the banks" (webcast), 5/2009
Op-Ed by Hal Scott: Banks Need Fewer Carrots and More Sticks, Wall Street Journal, 5/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The PPIP: keep banks out, FinancialTimes.com, 5/2009
Op-Ed by Mark Roe: A Chrysler Bankruptcy Won't Be Quick, Wall Street Journal, 5/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: How to Avoid Overpaying for Toxic Assets, Wall Street Journal Online, 4/2009
Roe and Klarman, along with HLS alumni, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 4/2009
Subramanian leads 'Top 10' in corporate law and securities scholarship, 4/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: A Fix for Geithner's Plan, Washington Post, 3/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Jump-Starting The Market For Troubled Assets, Forbes, 3/2009
Op-Ed by Hal Scott and Maxwell Jenkins: The US Treasury is a Public, Not a Private, Investor, Financial Times, 3/2009
Op-Ed by John C. Coates and David S. Scharfstein: The Bailout is Robbing the Banks, New York Times, 2/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Congress Gets Punitive on Executive Pay, Wall Street Journal, 2/2009
Op-Ed by Hal Scott, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Luigi Zingales: From Awful to Merely Bad: Reviewing the Bank Rescue Options, Wall Stree Journal, 2/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Pay Cap Debate, Wall Street Journal, 2/2009
Op-Ed by Mark J. Roe: Would a GM Bankruptcy Crash Its Suppliers?, Wall Street Journal, 2/2009
Lawdragon 500, 1/2009
Sitkoff addresses Delaware Trust Conference, 1/2009
Jackson urges expansion of Federal Reserve's power in Senate testimony, 1/2009
In WSJ, Roe looks at Delaware's competitive position in the market to attract corporations, 1/2009
Howell Jackson named as prospective active Dean of Harvard Law School, 1/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Itay Goldstein: How to Give Banks Confidence to Lend to Businesses, Wall Street Journal, 12/2008
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The Rescue Plan: Direct Capital Investments Would be Better for Both Markets and Taxpayers, Financial Times, 10/2008
HLS program gathers U.S. and Japanese leaders to discuss international financial issues, 10/2008
Lawyers' perspective on a "Time of Turmoil", 10/2008
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: How to Pay Less For Distressed Financial Assets, Wall Street Journal, 9/2008
Jackson says the Treasury's bailout plan should target bad loans, not burned investors, 9/2008
Scott urges administration to think carefully about bank bailout plan, 9/2008
HLS well represented among the most influential corporate governance players, 9/2008
Jared Gross and John Horsfield-Bradbury awarded the Victor Brudney Prize for work in corporate governance, 6/2008
CVS Caremark, Safeway, and JCPenney adopt Bebchuk's by-Law proposal, 4/2008
Bebchuk, Roe, and Subramanian honored for top corporate law articles, 3/2008
Sitkoff to represent Massachusetts on the uniform law commission, 3/2008
Blog and program members included in the "500 Leading Lawyers" list, 2/2008
Coates, taking Cogan chair, looks at market forces in corporate law, 2/2008
HLS professors among country's 'Leading Lawyers', 1/2008
Bebchuk ranks first among law professors on SSRN, 1/2008
Ferrell serves as chairman of inaugural Asian Exchange Congress, 12/2007
Sitkoff named an up and coming lawyer for 2007, 9/2007
Bebchuk named to list of 100 most influential players in corporate governance, 9/2007
Ferrell testifies before the Senate about regulating cross-border exchanges, 7/2007
HLS professors start faculty-edited legal journal, 7/2007
Vincent T. Cannon and Anthony Uccellini awarded the Victor Brudney Prize for work in corporate governance, 6/2007
Leaders gather to discuss opportunities for the China, U.S. financial relationship, 6/2007
Scott testifies about impact of new Sarbanes-Oxley standards on small businesses, 6/2007
Jackson testifies about accounting for Social Security and Medicare, 6/2007
Robert H. Sitkoff joins HLS faculty, 5/2007
Bebchuk elected president of the American Law and Economics Association, 5/2007
Bebchuk and Kraakman honored for corporate law articles, 5/2007
Lucian Bebchuk is trying to change the way corporations are governed, 3/2007
Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services Committee, 3/2007
Op-Ed by Professor Guhan Subramanian: Board Silly, New York Times, 2/2007
Bebchuk’s proposal forces change in Home Depot Bylaws, 1/2007
Professor Lucian Bebchuk on Apple Computer and Corporate Governance, 1/2007
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Inside Jobs, Wall Street Journal, 1/2007
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Urs Peyer: 'Lucky' Grants Point to a Deeper Governance Malaise, Financial Times, 12/2006
Research Finds Directors' Options were Favorably Timed, 12/2006
Professor Bebchuk Investigates Option Backdating, 11/2006
Bebchuk Wins Significant Support at CA Shareholder Meeting, 9/2006
Bebchuk Testifies on Executive Compensation Before Senate Committee on Finance, 9/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Rakesh Khurana: The Compensation Game, Harvard Business Review, 8/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Investors Must Have Power, Not Just Figures on Pay, Financial Times, 7/2006
Bebchuk Elected to Lead American Law and Economics Association, 6/2006
Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse Fried, and Robert Jackson Jr. file comments on the SEC's proposed rules concerning the disclosure of executive compensation, 4/2006
Article in SEC Today about the above Filed Comments, 4/2006
Four articles by HLS researchers selected among the top 10 Corporate and Securities articles in 2005, 4/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The SEC: Beyond Disclosure, Forbes, 1/2006
How Much Does the Boss Make?, 1/2006
Lucian Bebchuk ranked as one of the 100 most influential people in finance, 1/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The Disney Verdict and the Protection of Investors, Financial Times, 8/2005
HLS corporate faculty file an amicus brief in the case of AFSCME vs. AIG, 8/2005
Four articles by HLS researchers selected among the top 10 Corporate and Securities articles in 2004, 5/2005
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: What Corporate-Governance Reforms are Still Necessary?, Optimize Magazine, 4/2005
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: What's $13 Million Among Friends?, New York Times, 1/2005
Op-Ed by Robert Pozen on Reforming American Pensions, The Economist, 1/2005
"Pay without Performance" Book is the Focus of Columbia Law School Conference, 10/2004
Two articles by HLS researchers selected among the top 10 Corporate and Securities articles in 2003, 5/2004
Lucian Bebchuk awarded Guggenheim fellowship to study the allocation of power between management and shareholders, 5/2004
Lucian Bebchuk speaks at SEC hearing in favor of shareholder access to the ballot, 3/2004
Op-Ed piece on US listings by foreign firms by Professor Robert Pozen, Financial Times, 2/2004
Lucian Bebchuk submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to proxy rules, 12/2003
Robert Monks delivers lecture on "Why Capitalism without Owners Must Fail", 12/2003 (video of presentation)
Law School-Harvard Business School ad hoc faculty group on corporate governance submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to the proxyrules, 12/2003
Harvard Magazine Forum: "Making Directors Accountable," by Lucian Bebchuk, 11-12/2003
Op-Ed: "A Duet to Mend Markets and Heal Rifts," by Robert Pozen and Mario Draghi, Financial Times, 11/6/2003
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: "Why Shareholders Must Have More Power", Financial Times, 10/21/2003
Op-Ed by Howell Jackson: "It's Even Worse Than You Think", New York Times, 10/9/2003
HLS Faculty Win Five out of the Top Ten Best Papers in Corporate Law, 7/08/2003
Lucian Bebchuk submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to the proxy rules, 6/2003
Harvard Law School-Harvard Business School ad hoc faculty group on corporate governance submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to the proxy rules, 6/2003
Students awarded the Irving Oberman Memorial Award for work in corporate governance, 6/2003
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen: Not-So-Fierce Rivalry, The Daily Deal, 1/2003
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Settling For Less, New York Times, 12/2002
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Oliver Hart: A Threat to Dual Class Shares, Financial Times, 5/2002

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