Victor Brudney Prize
Established by the Program on Corporate Governance in honor of Professor Victor Brudney, Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor in Corporate Finance Law, Emeritus. This prize may be awarded annually to the best student paper on a topic related to corporate governance.
2023-2024
Anmar Al Ghadhanfari, LL.M. 2024
Twenty Years of Data on the Information Covenant and the Bringdown Condition in M&A Agreements
Leeor Ofer, S.J.D. 2024
Granting Favors: Insider-Driven Corporate Philanthropy
2022-2023
Olivier Baum, LL.M. 2023
Redemption Mechanism in Poison Pills – A Study with Special Consideration of Twitter’s Poison Pill
Nicholas Rush, J.D. 2023
Two Systems, One Stone – Efficiencies in Proxy Plumbing Reform
2021-2022
Giselle Zouein, LL.M. 2022
Broken M&A Deals: The Ordinary Course Operating Covenant In The Midst of Pandemics
2020-2021
Ria Sen, J.D. 2021
Trust(ee) Issues: Understanding the Role of Board Turnover in Public Pension Fund Performance
Roberto Tallarita, S.J.D.
2019-2020
Raffaele Felicetti, LL.M. 2020
Explaining Index Funds Puzzling Environmental and Social Voting Behavior
2018-2019
Jee Eun Lee, J.D. 2019
From Soft Dollars to Hard Dollars: A Hard Blow? MiFID II Research Unbundling and its Implications for U.S. Sell-side and Buy-side
Tom Vos, LL.M. 2019
Cheap-stock Tunneling in US Rights Offerings: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
2017-2018
Maxime Verheyden, LLM ’17
Public Reporting by Benefit Corporations: Importance, Compliance and Recommendations
2016-2017
Marlen Thaten
Liability of Bank Directors in Corporate Governance Germany – A Call for Public Enforcement
Gilad Zohari
The Taxonomy of Judicial Scrutiny Over the Sale of Controlled Companies to Unaffiliated Third Parties
2015-2016
Scott Hirst, S.J.D.
Undistorting Shareholder Voting
Kobi Kastiel, S.J.D.
Against All Odds: Shareholder Activism in Controlled Companies
Yaron Nili, S.J.D. ’15
The ‘New Insiders’ – Rethinking Independent Directors’ Tenure
2014-2015
Roy Shapira, S.J.D. ’14
A Reputational Theory of Corporate Law
2013-2014
Federico Cenzi Venezze, LL.M. ’13
2012-2013
Yinzhi Miao, LL.M. ’12
Oversea Listing and State-Owned-Enterprise Governance in China: the Role of the State
Alexander Zalivako LL.M. ’12
Structuring Corporate Governance in Close Firms: Legal Problems and their Practical Solutions
2011-2012
Anastasiya Putilova LL.M. ’11
Shareholders’ Agreements in Russia
Andrew Tuch, S.J.D. ’11
Conflicted Gatekeepers: The Volcker Rule and Goldman Sachs
2010-2011
Andrew Tuch, S.J.D. ’11
2009-2010
Pavlos Masouros, LL.M. ’09
Private Ordering and Corporate Governance: The Case of Venture Capital
Roy Shapira, LL.M. ’09
Corporate Philanthropy and the Handicap Principle
Holger Spamann, S.J.D. ’09
Contemporary Legal Transplants: Legal Families and the Diffusion of (Corporate) Law
2008-2009
Jared Gross, J.D. ’08
Berle and Means Revisited: Block Ownership, Agency Costs, and Going Private Transactions, Appendix
John Horsfield-Bradbury, J.D. ’08
Hedge Fund Self-Regulation in the US and UK
2007-2008
Vincent T. Cannon, J.D. ’07
Secondary Markets in Private Equity and the Future of U.S. Capital Markets
Anthony Uccellini, J.D. ’07
The Effect of Disclosure Regulation on M&A Activity: Evidence From the Over-the-Counter Market
2006-2007
Andrew Brasher, J.D. ’06
Substantive Consolidation: A Critical Examination
Katerina Linos, J.D. ’06
Social Learning and the Development of Corporate Law
Holger Spamann, SJD ’09
2005-2006
David M. Foster, J.D. ’05
Politics, Legal Origins, and the Roots of Modern Economic Institutions
Lynn Poss, J.D. ’05
Changes to the Independent Director Requirements: The 2004 Amendments in Context
2004-2005
Kiwi Camara, J.D. ’05
Shareholder Voting and the Bundling Problem in Corporate Law
Gordon Moodie, J.D. ’05
Forty Years of Charter Competition: A Race to Protect Directors from Liability?
Irving Oberman Prize
The Irving Oberman Award for June 2004 was awarded to three students for work each of them did in the field of corporate governance:
Sofie Cools, LL.M. ’04
Protection versus Control: Beware of indices! Shareholder Protection and Balance of Substantive Powers in Common Law and Civil Law Jurisdictions
(This paper has been reworked and is now available with the below title)
The Real Difference in Corporate Law Between the United States and Continental Europe: Distribution of Powers
Petja Toskan, S.J.D. ’04
Systems of Corporate Governance: Convergence, Institutions, and Competitive Advantage
Tobias Troeger LL.M. ’04
Choice of Jurisdiction in European Corporate Law – Perspectives of European Corporate Governance
