Articles by Bebchuk, Coates and Fried Voted to be Among the Top Ten Corporate and Securities Articles of 2015

The Corporate Practice Commentator announced last week the list of the Ten Best Corporate and Securities Articles selected by an annual poll of corporate and securities law academics. The list includes three articles from Harvard Law faculty associated with the Program on Corporate Governance, Professors Lucian Bebchuk, John Coates, and Jesse Fried.

The top ten articles were selected from a field of more than 540 pieces. Professor Robert Thompson of Georgetown Law School conducted the annual poll.

The selected Bebchuk, Coates, and Fried articles are:

• Bebchuk, Lucian, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang. The Long-term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism. 115 Colum. L. Rev. 1085-1155 (2015) (available here and discussed on the Forum here).
• Coates, John C. IV. Cost-benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications. 124 Yale L. J. 882-1011 (2015) (available here and discussed on the Forum here).
• Fried, Jesse M. The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-term Shareholders. 124 Yale L. J. 1554-1627 (2015) (available here and discussed on the Forum here).

Additional information about the best corporate and securities law articles of 2015 and the selection process is available here.