Current Fellows
Current Fellows researching topics related to the Program on Corporate Governance include:
Matthew Cain
Itai Fiegenbaum
Talia Gillis
Research: Protecting Mutual Fund Investors: Regulatory Options
Tami Groswald Ozery
Scott Hirst
Research: Corporate Charters
Masaki Iwasaki
Kobi Kastiel
Research: Executive Compensation in Controlling Shareholder Companies; Unfriendly IPOs
Thomas Keusch
Jihyun Kim
Yunsoo Shin
Research: Shareholder Activism in South Korea
Aluma Zernik
Past Fellows
Adi Libson
Adi Osofsky
June Rhee
Demetrio Maltese
Research: Conflicts of Interests in Public Companies’ General Meetings
Yaron Nili
Research: Independent Directors or the New “Insiders”—the Limited Case for Capping Board Tenure
Chen Barir
Given Imaging Limited
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: An Executive Duty to Cause Corporations to be adequately Capitalized
Michal Barzuza
University of Virginia
Research: Price considerations in state competition over corporate charters
Laura Beny
University of Michigan Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-2001
Research: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Agency and Market Theories of Insider Trading, John M. Olin Discussion Paper No. 264 (September 1999).
“Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence”, 7 Amerian Law and Economics Review (2005), pp. 144-183.
Lisa Bernstein
University of Chicago Law School
Olin Fellow, 1989-90
Jonathan Borowsky
Research: Organizing mutual funds or repos with a built-in auction mechanism
John J. Bu
Goldman Sachs and Company
Olin Fellow, 1989-1990
Research: Distress-Contingent Convertible Bonds: An Alternative for Restructured Troubled Companies, 104 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1991), pp. 1857-1877.
Ryan Bubb
New York University School of Law
Considine Fellow, 2008-2009
Research: Consumer biases and firm ownership
Eli Bukspan
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Business, Law & Technology
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: Economic Aspects of Locked Control Types in Corporate Law
Laurie Burlingame
Goodwin Proctor LLP
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Getting to the Truth of the Matter: Revising the TILA Disclosure Scheme to Better Protect Customers
Kiwi Camara
Camara & Sibley
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Institutional shareholder activism in corporate governance: risk incentive effect of stock options on senior management
Damien Cannavan
David Daniels
Research: Arguing for a compromise solution to the debate about reducing the disclosure window in Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Erik Caspersen
Olin Fellow, 1995-96
Research: Criminal Liability for Management Opportunism: A Superior Approach to Regulating Tender Offer Defenses
Stephen Choi
New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1992-94
Research: Investor Liability: Financial Innovations in the Regulatory State and The Coming Revolution in Corporate Law, 107 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1994), pp. 1941-1958.
Michael Dayan
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Secondary Liability of Professionals Under the Securities Laws
Elisabeth de Fontenay
Eddo Dinstein
Volovelsky Dinstein Sneh & Co.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: The Fifth Stage of Capitalism
Tijana Dvornic
Olin Fellow, Spring 2007 (2007-08)
Research: Tax exempt organizations, hospitals
Aryeh Falk
Kenneth Fenyo
The Sperry & Hutchinson Company, Inc.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Insider Trading in Junk Bonds; subsequently published in 105 Harvard Law Review, No. 7 (1992), pp. 1720-40.
Allen Ferrell
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Creating a Market for Corporate Voting Rights
Michael Frakes
Northwestern Law
Olin Fellow, 2002-2005
Research: Empirical corporate law and finance projects relating to various governance issues
Jesse Fried
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-93
Research: LBOs, Fraudulent Conveyance Law, and Efficient Transfers of Corporate Control
Stavros Gadinis
Berkeley Law
Research: SEC Enforcement against broker-dealer firms: domestic and international
Rishi Ganti
Security & Exchange Commission
Olin Fellow, 1997-2000
Research: Do Ticker Reassignments Cause Investor Confusion?
Matteo Gatti
Rutgers University School of Law
Visiting Fellow, Program on Corporate Governance, 2003
Ryan Gavin
McKinsey & Company
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Reconceptualizing Traditional Tax Analysis
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Challenging the Shareholder Primacy Norm: Shareholders vs. Stakeholders
Benjamin Gerber
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Unfettering Innocuous Benefits of Management Interlocks: Towards an Optimal Definition of “Competitors” Under Section 8 of the Clayton Act
Oren Bar-Gill
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Misreporting corporate performance; the costs of permitting managers to sell shares
David Gilo
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Partial Ownership as a Strategic Variable to Facilitate Tacit Collusion, Michigan Law Review (2000).
Yehonatan Givati
Olin Fellow, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
Research: Law and Economics; Corporate Law
Tom Gole
Brandon Gold
Research: Takeover defenses in IPOs
Gaurang (Mitu) Gulati
Duke Law School
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: The Globalization of the Legal Market and Its Effects on Discrimination (with Vivian Fu).
Andrew Guzman
University of California at Berkeley
Olin Fellow, 1994-96
Research: National Laws, International Money: Securities Regulation in a Global Capital Market (with Stephen Choi), 65 Fordham Law Review (1997), pp. 1855.
Shachar Hadar
Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Berkman & Co.
Olin Fellow, 2001-2003
Research: Tracking Stock
Guy Halfteck
Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Securities class actions
Jeffrey Hall
Research: Privatization and government contracting
Assaf Hamdani
Hebrew University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: Gatekeeper liability
Sharon Hannes
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: The Missing Link in the Corporate Takeover Literature or Why Would Similar Firms Adopt Different Anti-Takeover Mechanisms (at the IPO stage)?
Joung Hwang
Olin Fellow, 2000-01
Robert Jackson
Columbia Law School
Olin Fellow, 2003-2005
Research: Reducing the costs of monitoring regulatory compliance; the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on systematic equity risk; the effects of short sales on shareholder voting rights
Christine Jolls
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-94
Research: Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth (w/ L. Bebchuk), 15 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, No. 2 (1999), pp. 487-502.
Marcel Kahan
New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1986-88
Research: A Framework for Analyzing Legal Policy Towards Proxy Contests (w/L. Bebchuk), 78 California Law Review (1990), pp. 1071-1135.
Thomas Keusch
Vikramaditya (Vic S.) Khanna
The University of Michigan Law School
Research: Better Early than Late: An Economic Analysis of the Timing of Disclosure of Preliminary Merger Negotiations.
Eithan Kidron
Daniel Klaff
Olin Fellow, 2006-08
Research: Economic Explanations for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation in the Context of Bankruptcy Law
Israel Klein
Michael Komenda
Research: Economic efficiency and consistency of the current approach to civil penalty amounts by securities regulators
James Kwak
University of Connecticut School of Law
Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, 2011-2012
Research: Regulation of pension plan investment offerings under ERISA; the politics of federal government deficits
“Improving Retirement Savings Options for Employees“, John M. Olin Fellows’ Discussion Paper No. 42 (February 2012)
Hao Liang
Amir Licht
European Corporate Governance Institute Olin Fellow, 1995-98
Research: International Diversity in Securities Regulation: Some Roadblocks on the Way to Convergence, 20 Cardoza Law Review, No. 1 (September 1998), pp. 227-285.
Katerina Linos
Berkeley Law
Olin Fellow, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08
Research: Social learning and the development of corporate law
Larry Locke
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Olin Fellow, 1989-90
Research: After the FIRREA: An Analysis of the Savings and Loan Industry After the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 71 (May 1990).
Haim Machluf
Herzog, Fox & Neeman
Research: The internal affairs doctrine
William Magnuson
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody
Jeffrey Manns
Research: Propoerty law and corporate law
Gordon Moodie
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz
Research: Forty Years of Charter Competition: A Race to Protect Directors from Liability?
Balaji Narain
Research: Disaggregation of firms, shareholder derivative suits, federal regulations
Jim Naughton
Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University
Considine Fellow, 2007–2008, 2009–2010
Research: Securities fraud law and trading volume
Ophir Nave
Tadmor & Co. Yuval Levy & Co.
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: The Importance of Shareholder Votes in Takeover Law, Economic Analysis of Taking Law
Noam Noked
Research: The interaction between corporate taxation and corporate governance
Stephen O’Brien
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Olin Fellow, 1989-91
Research: Is Insider Trading Beneficial to the Stock Market?
Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang
Silviu Pitis
Research: Managing incentives in the international arena
Kenneth Reinker
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Stock returns and judicial decisions, how do they relate, what empirical evidence can be found
Morgan Ricks
Vanderbilt Law School
Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, 2010-2012
“A Regulatory Design for Monetary Stability“, John M. Olin Discussion Paper, No. 706 (September 2011)
“Reforming the Short-Term Funding Markets“, John M. Olin Discussion Paper, No. 713 (May 2012)
Miriam Schwartz-Ziv
Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
Fellows of the Program on Corporate Governance
Matthew Schoenfeld
Research: Sovereign credit default swaps
Tomer Shadmy
Roy Shapira
Research: A Reputational Theory of Corporate Law
Dorothy Shapiro
Research: A law and economics analysis of Judge Rakoff’s decision to block a settlement between SEC and Citigroup.
Greg Shill
Research: The Golden Leash and the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty
Nitzan Shilon
Research: Stock Ownership Policies — Rhetoric and Reality
Michael Simkovic
Seton Hall University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Did sunlight disinfect open market repurchases? An empirical study of false signaling since the 2003 SEC Disclosure Requirement
R. Christopher Small
Research: Corporate governance and taxation
Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 2009-2011
Research: Derivatives & moral hazard in corporate finance
Lars Stole
Chicago Booth
Olin Fellow, 1988-1991
Research: Do Short-Term Managerial Objectives Lead to Under- or Over-Investment in Long-Term Projects? (w/L. Bebchuk), 48 Journal of Finance, No. 2 (June 1993), pp. 719-729.
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Using Capital Cash Flows to Value Dissenters’ Shares in Appraisal Proceedings, 111 Harvard Law Review No. 7 (May, 1998), pp. 2099-2116.
Shaud Tavakoli
Research: Impact of consumer tax credits on affected companies during 08-10 economic downturn
Avishalom Tor
University of Notre Dame
Olin Fellow, 1998-2003
Research: The Behavioral Law and Economics of Corporate Governance and Control
Andrew F. Tuch
Washington University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2008-2012
Research: Professional regulation of investment bankers
Anthony Uccellini
Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Mergers and acquisitions, disclosure, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, regulation
Pierre-Hugues Verdier
University of Virginia Law School
Olin Fellow, Summer 2008 (2007-08)
Research: The rise of hedge funds: an evaluation of regulatory concerns and international governance proposals
John Verret
George Mason University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Reform in the mutual fund industry through changes in SEC regulation and its effects on fund return
Brian Vito
David Walker
Boston University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Rethinking Rights of First Refusal, 5 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance No. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-58.
Jeremy Weisman
Fellows of the Program on Corporate Governance
Charles C.Y. Wang
Soo J. Yim
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Olin Fellow, 1991-92, 2004-2005
Research 2004-05: Intersections between capital markets regulation and coporate governance, focusing on share supplydynamics and pricing in the areas of short selling and initial public offerings.
Research 1991-92: Government Intervention and Regulation in Emerging Stock Markets: A Case Study of the Korean Stock Exchange
