Institutional Investor Activism
Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Economics and Regulation
Edited by William Bratton and Joseph A. McCahery
Author Information
Edited by William Bratton, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Profesor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law & Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Joseph A. McCahery, Program Director of Finance and Law at Duisenberg School of Finance, Professor of International Economic Law, Tilburg University Law School and TILEC
William Bratton is Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is recognized internationally as a leading writer on business law. He brings an interdisciplinary perspective to a wide range of subject matters that encompass corporate governance, corporate finance, accounting, corporate legal history, and comparative corporate law. His work has appeared in the California, Cornell, Michigan, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Stanford, and Virginia law reviews, and the Duke and Georgetown law journals amoung others. His book, Corporate Finance: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2012), is the leading law school text on the subject. Bratton is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. In 2009, he was installed as the Anton Philips Professor at the Faculty of Law of Tilburg University, the fifth American academic to hold the chair.
Joseph A. McCahery is Professor of International Economic Law at TILEC and Tilburg University School of Law. He is Program Director of the Finance and Law programs at Duisenberg school of finance. Previously, he held the Goldschmidt Visiting Chair of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School of the University of Brussels and Chair in Corporate Governance and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Business and Economics. He is co-director of the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance. He has contributed to the literature on banking and securities law, corporate law, corporate governance, the political economy of federalism, and taxation and has published in a wide range of top academic journals. He is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has served as a legal expert for the Centre for European Policy Studies, Monitoring Committee Corporate Governance, The Netherlands Ministry of Finance, OECD, and other governmental organizations.
Contributors:
John Armour, University of Oxford
Dan Awrey, University of Oxford
Douglas Baird, University of Chicago
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Harvard Law School
Marco Becht, University of Brussels
Bernard S. Black, Northwestern University School
William W. Bratton, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Alon Brav, Duke University
Brian Cheffins, University of Cambridge
Douglas Cumming, York University
Peter Cziraki, University of Toronto
Na Dai, SUNY Albany
Jill E. Fisch, University of Pennsylvania
Julian Franks, London Business School
Stuart Gillan, University of Georgia
Henry T.C. Hu, University of Texas
Robert J. Jackson,Jr., Columbia University
Wei Jiang, Columbia University
Sofia A. Johan, York University
Marcel Kahan, New York University Law School
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago
April Klein, New York University
Kai Li, University of British Columbia
Colin Mayer, University of Oxford
Joseph A. McCahery, Tilburg University Law School
Frank Partnoy, San Diego University
Ludovic Phalippou, University of Oxford
Robert K. Rasmussen, University of Southern California
Luc Renneboog, Tilburg University
Edward Rock, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Stefano Rossi, Purdue University
Per Strömberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Peter G. Szilagyi, University of Cambridge
Laura T. Starks, University of Texas
Randall Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Tilburg University
Wei Wang, Queen's School of Business
Michael L. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Emanuel Zur, University of Maryland
