Instructors
Holger Spamann
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Holger Spamann
February 8, 2023
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…
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Hedge and Private Equity Funds: Law and Policy
February 6, 2023
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…
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Corporations A
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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Corporate Finance
January 19, 2023
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…
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Corporations B
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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Corporate Finance
January 18, 2023
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…
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Corporate Finance
January 18, 2023
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…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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Corporate Finance: Advanced
January 18, 2023
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…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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Holger Spamann, Comment on “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases”, 14 Am. Econ. J.: Applied Econ. 519 (2022).
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Holger Spamann & Jacob Fisher, Corporate Purpose: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations/Confusions (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ. & Bus., Discussion Paper…
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Corporations in 100 Pages
December 21, 2022
Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (3rd ed. 2022).
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Indirect Investor Protection: The Investment Ecosystem and Its Legal Underpinnings
December 21, 2022
Holger Spamann, Indirect Investor Protection: The Investment Ecosystem and Its Legal Underpinnings, 14 J. Legal Analysis 17 (2022).
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The SPAC Trap: How SPACs Disable Indirect Investor Protection
December 3, 2022
Holger Spamann & Hao Guo, The SPAC Trap: How SPACs Disable Indirect Investor Protection, Yale J. on Regul. Bull. (2022).
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Holger Spamann et al., Judges in the Lab: No Precedent Effects, No Common/Civil Law Differences, 13 J. Legal Analysis 110 (2021).
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Simplified Codes
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Simplified Codes (last visited Aug. 30, 2022).
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Corinna Coupette, Jyotsna Singh & Holger Spamann, Simplify Your Law: Using Information Theory to Deduplicate Legal Documents (Oct. 2, 2021) (unpublished manuscript).
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Extension: Lawyers’ Role-Induced Bias Arises Fast and Persists despite Intervention
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Extension: Lawyers’ Role-Induced Bias Arises Fast and Persists despite Intervention, 49 J. Leg. Stud. 467 (2020).
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Mergers & Acquisitions
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Mergers & Acquisitions, in Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).
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Fiduciary Duties
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Fiduciary Duties, in Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).
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Corporations & Corporate Law
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations & Corporate Law, in Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).
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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,…
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Corporations in 100 Pages
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020).
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On Inference When Using State Corporate Laws for Identification
October 19, 2022
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…
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Law Matters — Less Than We Thought
October 19, 2022
Daniel M. Klerman & Holger Spamann, Law Matters — Less Than We Thought, J. L., Econ., & Org. (2022).
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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).
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Precedent and Chinese Judges: An Experiment
October 19, 2022
John Zhuang Liu, Lars Klöhn & Holger Spamann, Precedent and Chinese Judges: An Experiment, 69 Am. J. Comp. L. 93 (2021).
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Corporations
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Corporations (2019).
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Simplified DGCL: including a guide to the federal proxy rules
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Simplified DGCL: including a guide to the federal proxy rules (2018).
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Does the Supreme Court Really Not Apply Chevron When It Should?
October 19, 2022
Natalie Salmanowitz & Holger Spamann, Does the Supreme Court Really Not Apply Chevron When It Should?, 57 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 81 (2019).
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Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017)
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017), 29 Psychol. Sci. 1006 (2018).
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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 22 Corporate Law Professors, Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al.
October 19, 2022
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.
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Deficiencies in Accounting and Financial Reporting of State and Municipal Governments
October 19, 2022
James Naughton & Holger Spamann, Deficiencies in Accounting and Financial Reporting of State and Municipal Governments, 85 CPA J., June 2015, at 16.
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Standard of Review for World Trade Organization Panels in Trade Remedy Cases: A Critical Analysis
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Standard of Review for World Trade Organization Panels in Trade Remedy Cases: A Critical Analysis, 38 J. World Trade 509 (2004).
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Derivatives Trading and Negative Voting
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Derivatives Trading and Negative Voting (Harvard Law, Econ., & Bus. Discussion Paper No. 730, 2014).
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‘Law and Finance’ Revisited
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, ‘Law and Finance’ Revisited (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr., Discussion Paper No. 12, 2008).
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On the Insignificance and/or Endogeneity of La Porta et al.’s ‘Anti-Director Rights Index’ under Consistent Coding
October 19, 2022
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.,…
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Choice of Law in a Federal System and an Internal Market
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Choice of Law in a Federal System and an Internal Market (Jean Monnet Ctr., Working Paper No. 8/01, 2001).
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Holger Spamann, The Myth of ‘Rebalancing’ Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement Practice, 9 J. Int’l Econ. L. 31 (2006).
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Contemporary Legal Transplants — Legal Families and the Diffusion of (Corporate) Law
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Contemporary Legal Transplants – Legal Families and the Diffusion of (Corporate) Law, 2009 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 1813.
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Justice Is Less Blind, and Less Legalistic, than We Thought: Evidence from an Experiment with Real Judges
October 19, 2022
Spamann, Holger & Lars Kloehn, Justice is Less Blind, and Less Legalistic, Than We Thought: Evidence from an Experiment with Real Judges, J. Legal Stud.
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Monetary Liability for Breach of the Duty of Care?
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Monetary Liability for Breach of the Duty of Care? 8 J. Legal Analysis 337 (2016).
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Large-Sample, Quantitative Research Designs for Comparative Law?
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Large Sample, Quantitative Research Designs for Comparative Law?, 57 Am. J. Comp. L. 797 (2009).
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The “Antidirector Rights Index” Revisited
October 19, 2022
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).
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Empirical Comparative Law
October 19, 2022
Holger Spamann, Empirical Comparative Law, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 131 (2015).
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Holger Spamann, Legal Origin, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement, 166 J. Inst. & Theoretical Econ. 149 (2010).