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The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
(Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., 2015)We test the empirical validity of a claim that has been playing a central role in debates on corporate governance — the claim that interventions by activist hedge funds have a detrimental effect on the long-term interests ... -
A Look at The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984
(2002)The DPC-PTR Act was a piece of legislation that was fought over bitterly by the generic and research-based industries, and passed only when a tenuous balance was reached through last-minute negotiations. "One indication ... -
Looking for "Persons" in the Law
(Institute on Religion and Public Life, 2006) -
The Loss Causation Requirement for Rule 10B-5 Causes of Action: The Implications of Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo
(American Bar Association, 2007)In order to have recoverable damages in a Rule 10b-5 action, plaintiffs must establish loss causation, i.e. that the actionable misconduct was the cause of economic losses to the plaintiffs. The requirement of loss causation ... -
Lost in a Cyber Campus
(World Economic Forum, 2000) -
Louis B. Sohn: Recollections of a Co-conspirator
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2007) -
Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar: Licensing Difficulty and Attorney Quality in Japan
(Society for Japanese Studies, 2015)Under certain circumstance, a relaxation in occupational licensing standards can increase the quality of those who enter the industry. The effect turns on the opportunity costs of preparing for the licensing examination: ... -
Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar: Licensing Difficulty and Attorney Quality in Japan
(Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2013)Under certain circumstance, a relaxation in occupational licensing standards can increase the quality of those who enter the industry. The effect turns on the opportunity costs of preparing for the licensing examination: ... -
Lowering the Cost of Bank Recapitalization
(Yale Journal on Regulation, 2009)Efforts to recapitalize banks in the current crisis have to date been focused on government assistance under the TARP, rather than private investment, and on bank holding companies, rather than banks. We describe three ... -
The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making
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Lucky CEOS and Lucky Directors
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)We study the relation between opportunistic timing of option grants and corporate governance failures, focusing on “lucky” grants awarded at the lowest price of the grant month. Option grant practices were designed to ... -
The Lurking Rule Against Accumulations of Income
(Northwestern Law School, 2006)For 200 years the rule against accumulations of income, which limits the time during which a settlor may direct the trustee to accumulate and retain income in trust, has lurked in the shadow of its older and more distinguished ... -
M&A Contracts: Purposes, Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice
(2015)M&A transactions are governed by contracts that exhibit constrained variation – they are negotiated, yet full of boilerplate, tailored, yet full of patterns and regularities. This paper (a chapter of the Research Handbook ... -
M. L. B. v. S. L. J., 519 U.S. 102 (1996)
(Harvard Law School Library, 2013) -
Major Trends Lead Us Back to Basics
(University of Iowa, College of Law, 2006) -
Make it Work!: Breyer on Patents in the Life Sciences
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2015-06-18)This short essay is part of a Harvard Law Review Symposium honoring Justice Breyer on his 20th Year on The Supreme Court. It examines Breyer's opinions and impact on the law of patents in the life sciences, and shows how ... -
Making Coasean Property More Coasean
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)In his pioneering work on transaction costs, Ronald Coase presupposed a picture of property as a bundle of government-prescribed use rights. This picture is not only not essential to what Coase was trying to do, but its ... -
Making Credit Safer
(University of Pennsylvania, 2008) -
Making History or Making Peace: When Prosecutions Should Give Way to Truth Commissions and Peace Negotiations
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)This essay identifies a set of choices for national leaders and human rights advocates following mass atrocities, including whether to pursue a truth commission, how to coordinate its relationship with potential criminal ...