The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Sat, 02 May 2026 11:30:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Where are the Best (Corporate) Law Professors Teaching? – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Where are the Best (Corporate) Law Professors Teaching? https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/01/05/where-are-the-best-corporate-law-professors-teaching/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-are-the-best-corporate-law-professors-teaching https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/01/05/where-are-the-best-corporate-law-professors-teaching/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:10:09 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=72256?d=20160105091009EST Posted by Marco Ventoruzzo, Bocconi University and Pennsylvania State University, on Tuesday, January 5, 2016
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Marco Ventoruzzo is a comparative business law scholar with a joint appointment with the Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law and Bocconi University. This post is based on an article authored by Professor Ventoruzzo.

Are the best law professors teaching at the best law schools in the United States? And how can the best law schools around the world be evaluated in terms of the scholarship their professors produce? On this website we talk a lot about corporate governance, but what about the governance of scholars of corporate governance? Is the Emperor naked?

I recently wrote an essay that contributes to addressing these questions by examining empirically a specific issue: whether the top-ranking law schools employ the most productive, authoritative and influential scholars of corporate law. For the reasons I explain in the paper, corporate law can be used as an effective and useful proxy also for other areas.

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