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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.