Holger Spamann

Holger Spamann is the Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporate law and corporate finance. His research focuses…

Prerequisite: None required; preferred that students have already completed Corporations or at a minimum are taking contemporaneously with this course. Exam: Last Class Take-home This…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisites: Students must have taken Analytical Methods, Introduction to Finance Concepts, or a similar introduction to basic present value calculations at HLS or elsewhere. Exam…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisites: Students must have taken Analytical Methods, Introduction to Finance Concepts, or a similar introduction to basic present value calculations at HLS or elsewhere. Exam…

Prerequisites: Students must have taken Analytical Methods, Introduction to Finance Concepts, or a similar introduction to basic present value calculations at HLS or elsewhere. Exam…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisites: Students must concurrently enroll in Corporate Finance, or have previously taken the class at HLS or a similar class elsewhere (in this case, faculty…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Holger Spamann, Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”, 14 Am. Econ. J.: Applied Econ. 519 (2022).

Holger Spamann & Jacob Fisher, Corporate Purpose: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations/Confusions (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ. & Bus., Discussion Paper…

Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (3rd ed. 2022).

Holger Spamann, Indirect Investor Protection: The Investment Ecosystem and Its Legal Underpinnings, 14 J. Legal Analysis 17 (2022).

Holger Spamann & Hao Guo, The SPAC Trap: How SPACs Disable Indirect Investor Protection, Yale J. on Regul. Bull. (2022).

Holger Spamann et al., Judges in the Lab: No Precedent Effects, No Common/Civil Law Differences, 13 J. Legal Analysis 110 (2021).

Holger Spamann, Simplified Codes (last visited Aug. 30, 2022).

Corinna Coupette, Jyotsna Singh & Holger Spamann, Simplify Your Law: Using Information Theory to Deduplicate Legal Documents (Oct. 2, 2021) (unpublished manuscript).

Holger Spamann, Extension: Lawyers’ Role-Induced Bias Arises Fast and Persists despite Intervention, 49 J. Leg. Stud. 467 (2020).

Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Mergers & Acquisitions, in Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).

Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Fiduciary Duties, in Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).

Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations & Corporate Law, in Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).

Holger Spamann, No, Judges Are Not Influenced by Outdoor Temperature (Or Other Weather): Comment (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1036,…

Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).

Holger Spamann, On Inference When Using State Corporate Laws for Identification (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1024, Eur. Corp. Governance…

Daniel M. Klerman & Holger Spamann, Law Matters — Less Than We Thought, J. L., Econ., & Org. (2022).

Holger Spamann, Lawyers’ Role-Induced Bias Arises Fast and Persists Despite Intervention (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1005, May 15, 2019).

John Zhuang Liu, Lars Klöhn & Holger Spamann, Precedent and Chinese Judges: An Experiment, 69 Am. J. Comp. L. 93 (2021).

Holger Spamann, Corporations (2019).

Holger Spamann, Simplified DGCL: including a guide to the federal proxy rules (2018).

Natalie Salmanowitz & Holger Spamann, Does the Supreme Court Really Not Apply Chevron When It Should?, 57 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 81 (2019).

Holger Spamann, Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017), 29 Psychol. Sci. 1006 (2018).

John C. Coates, IV, Lucian A. Bebchuk, John C. Coffee, Bernard S. Black, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, James D. Cox, Marcel Kahan, Reinier Kraakman, Jeffrey N.

James Naughton & Holger Spamann, Deficiencies in Accounting and Financial Reporting of State and Municipal Governments, 85 CPA J., June 2015, at 16.

Holger Spamann, Standard of Review for World Trade Organization Panels in Trade Remedy Cases: A Critical Analysis, 38 J. World Trade 509 (2004).

Holger Spamann, Derivatives Trading and Negative Voting (Harvard Law, Econ., & Bus. Discussion Paper No. 730, 2014).

Holger Spamann, ‘Law and Finance’ Revisited (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr., Discussion Paper No. 12, 2008).

Holger Spamann, On the Insignificance and/or Endogeneity of La Porta et al.’s ‘Anti-Director Rights Index’ under Consistent Coding (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr.,…

Holger Spamann, Choice of Law in a Federal System and an Internal Market (Jean Monnet Ctr., Working Paper No. 8/01, 2001).

Holger Spamann, The Myth of ‘Rebalancing’ Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement Practice, 9 J. Int’l Econ. L. 31 (2006).

Holger Spamann, Contemporary Legal Transplants – Legal Families and the Diffusion of (Corporate) Law, 2009 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 1813.

Spamann, Holger & Lars Kloehn, Justice is Less Blind, and Less Legalistic, Than We Thought: Evidence from an Experiment with Real Judges, J. Legal Stud.

Holger Spamann, Monetary Liability for Breach of the Duty of Care? 8 J. Legal Analysis 337 (2016).

Holger Spamann, Large Sample, Quantitative Research Designs for Comparative Law?, 57 Am. J. Comp. L. 797 (2009).

Holger Spamann, The “Antidirector Rights Index” Revisited, 23 Rev. Fin. Stud. 467 (2010) (The documentation, data, and code are available at http://bit.ly/mdfmwM or http://bit.ly/mnIp1r).

Holger Spamann, Empirical Comparative Law, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 131 (2015).

Holger Spamann, Legal Origin, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement, 166 J. Inst. & Theoretical Econ. 149 (2010).