Areas of Interest
Corporate and Transactional Law
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Holger Spamann, the Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law at Harvard, has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).
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Ahead of the holiday travel season, Harvard Law graduate Ganesh Sitaraman argues in a new book that deregulating the airline industry has led to higher costs, less choice, and more misery for the flying public.
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Harvard Law’s Transactional Law Clinics help community members build businesses and long-term financial security
September 6, 2023
Harvard Law’s Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, Entertainment Law Clinic, and Community Enterprise Project make a difference for community members in Boston and beyond.
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Corporate law and governance specialist Mariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law as professor of law
July 12, 2023
Mariana Pargendler, whose scholarship focuses on corporate law and corporate governance, will join the Harvard Law faculty in 2024.
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Mergers and acquisition experts David Sorkin ’84 and Alan Klein ’84 to lead new course designed to provide students with additional hands-on corporate law experience.
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Roberto Tallarita S.J.D. ’23, a lecturer on law and the associate director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, has been named an assistant professor of law at Harvard.
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Professor Rebecca Tushnet says that Disney’s claims of retaliation are strong and that, if the company prevails in the lower courts, the Supreme Court might choose to have the final word.
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New faculty appointments
April 18, 2023
Harvard Law School expands the ranks of its faculty with four appointments.
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Harvard Law expert J.S. Nelson says that Elon Musk and the tech industry risk gains when they engage in disreputable business practices.
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Laurence Tribe reflects on Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, 40 years later
December 7, 2022
In this installment of "Cases in Brief," Laurence Tribe reflects on the landmark decision involving a popular Harvard Square bar denied a liquor license by the church next door.
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The Ames Game
November 14, 2022
At the 2022 Ames Moot Court Competition, two teams battled over Article III judicial power and climate change.
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‘Misunderstanding how the world works’
November 9, 2022
Harvard Law Professor Mark Roe says that Wall Street short-termism has gotten a bad rap.
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Articles by Harvard Law faculty and alumni among top ten corporate and securities articles of 2021
June 22, 2022
Articles by four Harvard Law faculty were selected in an annual poll of corporate and securities law professors as three of the ten best corporate and securities articles of 2021.
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Jared Ellias, a specialist in the study of corporate bankruptcies, joins the Harvard Law faculty
June 9, 2022
Jared Ellias, a bankruptcy law expert and corporate governance scholar, is joining Harvard Law School as a professor of law.
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Subramanian, Barzuza, other Harvard Law affiliates recognized by Corporate Practice Commentator
May 6, 2021
Articles by Harvard Law Professor Guhan Subramanian, Visiting Professor Michal Barzuza and several HLS alumni were named the Top Corporate and Securities Articles of 2020.
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Helping the financially vulnerable find stability
March 25, 2021
Last year, Harvard Law Professor Howell Jackson and students in his FinTech class worked with a national nonprofit to help the United Parcel Service create an emergency savings program for 90,000 of its nonunion workers.
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More than 1,200 empirical studies apply an index developed by HLS Professors Bebchuk, Cohen and Ferrell
March 11, 2021
"What Matters in Corporate Governance," a 2009 study by Harvard Law Professors Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Allen Ferrell continues to have enormous influence on present-day research
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Debating stakeholder capitalism
December 16, 2020
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis intensifying discussions about corporate purpose duties to stakeholders, the European Corporate Governance Institute and the London Business School Centre for Corporate Governance recently hosted a virtual debate on stakeholder capitalism between Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. ’80 S.J.D. ’84 and London Business School Professor Alex Edmans.