Corporate Law & Securities

John C. Coates, SPAC Law and Myths, 78 Bus. Law. 371 (2023).

Protecting Shareholders and Enhancing Public Confidence by Improving Corporate Governance: Hearing Before the S. Subcomm. on Securities, Insurance, and Investment of the S. Comm. on…

John C. Coates, Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal And Economic Analysis, 1 J. Legal Analysis 591 (2009).

Examining Investor Risks in Capital Raising, Hearing on S. 1824, S. 1831, S. 1933 and S. 1970 Before the Subcomm. on Securities, Insurance, and Investment…

Additional Discussion of H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act, Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections: Hearing on H.R. 5175 Before the H.

John C. Coates, IV, Corporate Speech & the First Amendment: History, Data, and Implications, 30 Const. Comment. 223 (2015).

John C. Coates, Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice, in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (Jeffrey N. Gordon…

John C. Coates, Why Have M&A Contracts Grown? Evidence from Twenty Years of Deals (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ. &…

John C. Coates, The Volcker Rule as Structural Law: Implications for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Law, 10 Cap. Mkt. L.J. 447 (2015).

John C. Coates & Taylor Lincoln, Fulfilling Kennedy’s Promise: Why the SEC Should Mandate Disclosure of Corporate Political Activity (July 27, 2011).

John C. Coates, The Contestability of Corporate Control: A Critique of the Scientific Evidence on Takeover Defenses, 79 Texas L. Rev. 271 (2000).

John C. Coates, “Fair Value” as an Avoidable Rule of Corporate Law: Minority Discounts in Conflict Transactions, 147 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1251 (1999).

John C. Coates, Explaining Variation in Takeover Defenses: Blame the Lawyers, 89 Calif. L. Rev. 1301 (2001).

John C. Coates & Suraj Srinivasan, SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review, 28 Accounting Horizons 627 (2014).

John C. Coates, The Goals and Promise of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 21 J. Econ. Persp. 91 (2007).

John C. Coates, Corporate Politics, Governance, and Value Before and After Citizens United, 9 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 657 (2012).

Jacob Gersen, Markets and Corporate Conflict: A substitution-cost approach to business litigation, 24 Law & Soc. Inquiry 589 (1999).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 94 Am. J. Soc. 447 (1988) (reviewing Ronald Dore, Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues (1987)).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 45 J. Asian Stud. 398 (1986) (reviewing Elliott J. Hahn, Japanese Business Law and the Legal System (1984)).

J. Mark Ramseyer, General Comments: Afterword, in Enterprise Law: Contracts, Markets and Laws in the US and Japan 381 (Zenichi Shishido ed., 2014).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Costs of the Consensual Myth: Antitrust Enforcement and Institutional Barriers to Litigation in Japan, 94 Yale L.J. 604 (1985).