Harvard’s Contribution to the Year’s Ten Best Corporate Articles

Writings by three Harvard Law School professors — Lucian Bebchuk, Mark Roe, and Guhan Subramanian – were selected to be among the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2007 in the annual poll of corporate and securities law faculty around the country. This is a repeat appearance on the top ten list for each of these authors.

Bebchuk’s articles appeared on the top-ten list of the year’s best corporate and securities articles in each of the last six years. The 2007 top ten list included his article The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise. In addition, he had seven articles in the top-ten lists of the preceding five years:

• Letting Shareholders Set the Rules in the 2006 top-ten list;

• The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power in the 2005 top-ten list;

• Firms’ Decisions Where to Incorporate (with Alma Cohen) in the 2004 list;

• Does The Evidence Favor State Competition In Corporate Law? (with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell) and The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Participants (with John Coates and Guhan Subramanian) in the 2003 list; and

• Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried and David Walker) and Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy (with John Coates and Guhan Subramanian) in the 2002 list.

Roe’s article in the 2007 top-ten list is Legal Origins, Politics, and Modern Stock Markets. He has three other articles in the top-ten lists of the preceding five years:

• Delaware’s Politics in the 2005 list;

• Delaware’s Competition in the 2003 list; and

• Corporate Law’s Limits in the 2002 list.

Subramanian’s article selected for the 2007 top-ten list is Post-Siliconix Freeze-outs: Theory and Evidence. His prior contributions to the top-ten lists are:

• Fixing Freezeouts in the 2005 list;

• Bargaining in the Shadows of Takeover Defenses and The Disappearing Delaware Effect in the 2004 list;

• The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Participants (with Lucian Bebchuk and John Coates) in the 2003 list; and

• The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy (with Lucian Bebchuk and John Coates) in the 2002 list.

The full list of the best corporate and securities law articles of 2007 is available here.