Recent Highlights

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  Corporate governance experts participate in Proxy Access Roundtable at HLS

  “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Demonstrating the truth behind Margaret Mead’s words, a group of about 40 thoughtful and committed individuals, all prominent members of the nation’s legal, financial, regulatory and academic communities, gathered on Oct. 9 at Harvard Law School’s Langdell Library. They had been invited by the HLS Program on Corporate Governance to participate in the program’s Proxy Access Roundtable.

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  "The recent financial crisis highlighted what can go wrong when pay arrangements are not properly structured," says Jesse Fried

  Jesse Fried ’92, a leading expert in executive compensation, corporate governance, bankruptcy and venture capital, joined the HLS faculty in the fall from the University of California at Berkeley.

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  Cramer: Players who manipulated markets must be held accountable

  “Unless something is done, and done soon, to straighten out the capital markets and bring back the enforcement of laws that protected us from rapacious capitalism for so many years, I would never suggest to the young graduates leaving soon from here that they have anything to do with the stock market.”

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  Class action lawsuits will lay bare the weak links in the securities markets, says Ferrell

  In a recent paper, HLS Professor Allen Ferrell ’95 examines “The Legal and Economic Issues in Litigation Arising from the 2007-2008 Credit Crisis.”

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  Triantis, taking Goldston chair, looks at emerging threats to transactional legal practice

  Message from Professor George Triantis to law firms: "innovate or face decline in transactional revenues."

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  Coates, taking Cogan chair, looks at market forces in corporate law

   Accepting the Cogan chair, Coates offered a lecture (“On Being a Corporate Lawyer”) surveying recent trends in corporate law practice—the field, he said, which continues to draw the majority of graduates of top schools. He noted that the leading corporate law firms have remained relatively stable and free from the kind of volatility seen in the investment banking sector over the past several decades, citing major banks that have vanished or been displaced.