The John M. Olin Center
Faculty
Allen Ferrell
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Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law
| Office: | Griswold 303 |
| Assistant: | Wendy Moore 617/496-2865 |
| Phone: | (617) 495-8961 |
| Fax: | (617) 496-4863 |
| Email: | fferrell@law.harvard.edu |
Research Interests
- Corporate governance
- Finance
- Regulation of Financial Institutions
- Securities regulation
Representative Publications
- "A Proposal for Solving the 'Payment for Order Flow' Problem," 74 California Law Review 1027 (May 2001)
- "A New Approach to Regulatory Competition and Takeover Law," with Lucian Bebchuk 87 Virginia Law Review (March 2001)
- "Comment on Electronic versus Floor-Based Training," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (2001 (forthcoming))
- "Federal Intervention to Enhance Shareholder Choice," with Lucian Bebchuk Virginia Law Review (2001)
- "Federalism and Corporate Law: The Race to Protect Managers from Takeovers," 99 Columbia Law Review 1168 (1999)
Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work
- Financial Institutions Regulation
- Securities Regulation
Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries
- Corporate Finance
- Economic Analysis of Law
- Finance
- Financial Institutions
- International Finance
- Securities
Education
- Brown University B.A. 1992, Philosophy
- Brown University M.A. 1992, Philosophy
- Harvard Law School J.D. 1995
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. 2005, Economics
Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Law, 1999
- John M. Olin Research Professor in Law, Economics, and Business, 2000-01
- Professor of Law, 2005
- Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law, 2005