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By Jim Naughton, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Editor’s Note: This post comes from Ryan Bubb and Alex Kaufman of Harvard University.) Perhaps no academic paper has done more to convince scholars and policymakers that mortgage securitization led to lax screening by lenders and fueled the subprime crisis than did the recent paper by K...

By Scott Hirst, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Robert Clark Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law Harvard Law School Mark Roe David Berg Professor of Law Harvard Law School Eric Roiter Lecturer in Law Boston University School of Law

By philg An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Kevin Carey argues that Harvard should have used some of its fantastic accumulated wealth to expand the number of undergraduates. The U.S. population keeps growing and yet Harvard produces the same number of graduates each year. Thus Harva...

By John F. Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Visiting Professor, Georgetown Law Center, •  John Thompson, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Symantec Corporation. •  The concept that certain institutions are “too-big-to-fail” and its impact on market expectations. •  The quality of due diligence undertaken by financial institutions.

By philg In July, a black employee of Harvard University was arrested in Cambridge. What evidence was sufficient to justify the arrest? Henry Louis Gates was tired, frustrated, and apparently not very hospitable. More: Wikipedia. This month, a white employee of Yale University was suspected of m...

By palfrey At a workshop at Oxford University, HLS Prof. David Wilkins has convened the managing partners of some of the world’s leading law firms.  Ted Burke of Freshfields, Simon Davies of Linklaters, Wim Dejonghe of Allen & Overy, Neville Eisenberg og Berwin Leighton Paisner, and Cyril Shro...

By Scott Hirst, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Richard Squire of the Fordham University School of Law.) According to the Treasury Department’s June 2009 report on the financial crisis, the collapse of AIG is Exhibit One in the case for more aggressive federal regulation of derivative contrac...

By palfrey Amid all the noise of the start of fall semester, Eszter Hargittai and I are launching a new experiment: a course taught jointly (and separately) at Northwestern University and at Harvard University on research methods in Internet & Society.  We’ll post as much of the material as mak...

By palfrey Over the past year, I’ve worked with my colleagues at the Harvard Law School Library, our Library Committee of faculty members, and many others to develop a new organizational design for the HLSL.  It goes into effect today.  The description of our new organizational form is posted to the L...

By John Coates, Harvard Law School, Stephen J. Choi Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law New York University School of Law Robert C. Clark Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law Harvard Law School Eric Roiter Lecturer at Law Boston University School of Law

By palfrey One of the new efforts underway at the Harvard Law School Library is providing support for the growing number of faculty who perform empirical research.  It’s something that a few other libraries have begun to do, and we think it’s a great idea.  After a successful pilot this past year (wher...

By palfrey No small issue on the agenda here at Aspen Ideas Festival — the future of education, technology, and how people learn — but the panel assembled is in fact up to the task. Connie Yowell (MacArthur Foundation, whose brainchild is the $50 million Digital Media and Learning initiative), Howar...

By Fabrizio Ferri, NYU Stern School of Business, In the first study, co-authored with David Maber of University of Southern California, Say on Pay Votes and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK, we perform two sets of tests. First, we examine UK firms’ responses to say on pay votes by analyzing the changes to compensation policies mad...

By Richard A. Posner, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; University of Chicago Law School, My remaining proposals are for measures to improve regulatory performance, as distinct from the organization of financial regulation. First, we need a program that will rotate financial regulatory staff among the different financial regulatory agencies, to broaden the perspectiv...

By Robert A.G. Monks, Principal, Lens Governance Advisors, It is thus not too surprising that it was Powell who wrote the Court’s opinion sustaining the First National Bank of Boston’s constitutional challenge to the Massachusetts statute. 3.     The Roberts Majority and Corporate Influence in Politics

By Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance recently issued The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards, a discussion paper I co-authored with Professor Assaf Hamdani. The paper is scheduled for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Our slides fr...

By Jim Naughton, co-editor, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog Editor’s Note: This post comes from Anil K. Kashyap of The University of Chicago.) I recently presented a new working paper co-written with Takeo Hoshi at the Law, Economics and Organizations workshop at Harvard Law School entitled Will the U.S. Bank Recapitalization Succeed? Lessons fro...

By djones Radio Berkman pokes its head into a recent talkback with the directors of the film Secrecy, Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. They are joined by Harvard Law School professors Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith.

By David Giacalone by John Stevenson - Quiet Enough (2004) . . . Melissa “Missy” Brooks Batten (1972 - 2008) . . . It was no surprise to find Harvard Law School graduate Barack Obama [HLS '91] on the cover of the current issue of the Harvard Law Bulletin, when it arrived last month.  I was surprised, however, while belat...

By philg The Harvard professor objected “But there is a lot of great innovation in education going on at Harvard right now.”  My ears perked up.  Were they going to do something with Internet-supported cooperative work?  With using teleconferencing to collaborate with universities in Chi...

By Jim Naughton, co-editor, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog Editor’s Note: This post comes from Dhammika Dharmapala of the University of Connecticut, and Vikramaditya Khanna of the University of Michigan Law School.) Recently in the Law and Economics Seminar here at Harvard Law School, we presented our paper entitled Corporate Governance, En...

By Andrew Tuch, co-editor, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, At Harvard, Strine concludes his grand tour through Delaware’s takeover law, vintage of 1985, by asking the class what overarching view of the corporation the cases take. Do they suggest that the corporation is primarily shareholder property that the board should aim to maximize or tha...

By David Giacalone ” . . . Interestingly, it was Harvard Law School, regarded by many as the apex of legal education (and located in the heart of liberal Cambridge) that early grappled with the appropriateness of punishing students for engaging in satire and parody. With the eyes of the higher-education elite w...

By Andrew Tuch, co-editor, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, But the regent by far of all the blogs with a Delaware connection is the ‘‘Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog,’’ which has been hit nearly two million times in its roughly two years of existence. This is in part a testament to the importance of Delaware corporate law.

By Jim Naughton, co-editor, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog As the hit counter on the right hand side of this blog indicates, our Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog has just reached the 2-million-hits mark. Our blog, which was founded in December 2006, has been enjoying robust growth in traffic. The cumulative number of hits on the Blog ha...

By palfrey Prof. Robert Darnton said of this vote: “That such a renowned law school should support Open Access so resoundingly is a victory for the democratization of knowledge. Far from turning its back to the outside world, the HLS is sharing its intellectual wealth.”  Amen. I’m just delighted that t...

Having a very interesting day at IS2K7 at the Harvard Law School. There's a great list of questions we're visiting here. Here in Ames (a vast and beautiful courtroom), there are lots of questions and comments about What's Wrong with The System, about the Harvard and MIT "brands" and what the...

By lydondev The lines are from a book titled Four Years at Yale by Lyman H. Bogg, Yale class of 1869, in the dawn of the Gilded Age. Perhaps there is no pithier statement of the case for President Bush’s reelection, though John Kerry could claim the endorsement just as proudly.