Corporate Law & Securities

Legislative Proposals to Examine Corporate Governance, Hearing Before the S. Comm. on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 115 Cong., 2d Sess. (2018) (statement of Professor…

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

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, “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).

Hal S. Scott, John Gulliver & Connor Kortje, A Review of Cryptoasset Market Structure and Regulation in the United States (2023).

Hal Scott & John Gulliver, Enhancing Post-Trade Transparency for U.S. Treasuries (2022).

Hal S. Scott, John Gulliver, Jon Ondrejko & Samuel Holt, Mandatory Central Clearing for U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Treasury Repos (2021).

Hal S. Scott & John Gulliver, Comm. on Cap. Mkts. Reg., Expanding Opportunities for Investors and Retirees: Private Equity (2018).

Comment, The Impact of Class Actions on Rule 10b-5, 38 U. Chi. L. Rev. 337 (1970).