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Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Should Bondholders be Bailed Out?, Project Syndicate, 10/2009
Corporate governance experts participate in Proxy Access Roundtable at HLS, 11/2009
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
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
Students 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
Students 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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