Manisha Padi ’17

Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law.

“The Rise of Non-Banks in Servicing Household Debt” (with Naser Hamdi, Erica Jiang, Brittany Almquist Lewis, and Avantika Pal).

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin

Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong School of Law.

“The Spectrum of Control: Unveiling Layers of State Influence in Chinese Firms.”

Co-sponsored with The Paul Tsai China Center.

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* This Wasserman Workshop will cover four recent papers by Professor Lin, with a focus on:

• “China’s Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism?” (with Curtis Milhaupt) and published in The China Quarterly; and

• “Party Building or Noisy Signaling? The Contours of Political Conformity in Chinese Corporate Governance” (with Curtis Milhaupt) and published in the Journal of Legal Studies (available upon request).

Eric Talley

Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

“Sex and Startups” (with Jens Frankenreiter and Talia Gillis).

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

Christian Leuz

Charles F. Pohl Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 

“Internalizing Externalities through Public Pressure: Transparency Regulation for Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling Activity and Water Quality” (with Naser Hamdi, Erica Jiang, Brittany Almquist Lewis, and Avantika Pal). 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

G. Mitu Gulati

Perre Bowen Professor of Law and John V. Ray Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law.

“Contractual Landmines” (with Robert E. Scott and Stephen J. Choi).  

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop. 

Alex Lee ’06

Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

“A Model of the Zone-of-Interests Test.” 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop. 

David Hirshleifer

Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. 

“Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance.” 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

Jared A. Ellias

Professor of Law, the Bion M. Gregory Chair in Business Law, and the Faculty Director of the Center for Business Law, University of California at Hastings College of the Law.

“Employee Bankruptcy Trauma.” 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

Quinn Curtis ’09

Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law.

“Do ESG Mutual Funds Deliver on Their Promises?” (with Jill Fisch and Adriana Z. Robertson). 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop. 

Natasha Sarin

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

“Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality” (with Sylvain Catherine and Max Miller). 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop. 

Daniel M. Klerman and Miguel de Figueiredo ’13

Daniel M. Klerman, Edward G. Lewis Chair in Law and History, and Director, Center of Law & Social Science (CLASS), University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Miguel de Figueiredo ’13, Associate Professor of Law and Terry J. Tondro Research Scholar, University of Connecticut School of Law

“Reputational Economies of Scale.” 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

David Skeel

S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

“Distorted Choice in Corporate Bankruptcy.” 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop. 

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History, Yale University.

“General Laws and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transformation of American Political Economy: Massachusetts, New York, Indiana, and Beyond” (with John Joseph Wallis). 

Co-sponsored with the Legal History Forum.

Michael Ewens

Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology.

“The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs” (with Joan Farre-Mensa). 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop. 

Adriana Robertson ’15 J.D., ’17 Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

“Passive Investment in Name Only: Delegated Management and ‘Index’ Investing.”

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

Matthew Jennejohn

Associate Professor of Law, Brigham Young University School of Law.

“Do Networks Govern Contracts?” 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.  

John Graham

D. Richard Mead, Jr. Family Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. 

“CEO-Board Dynamics” (with Hyunseob Kim and Mark Leary). 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

Toshiaki Yamanaka, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School and Program Research Fellow in Financial Law, University of Tokyo.

“Departure from Default Rules of Corporate Law in Public Companies in Japan.”

Zohar Goshen ’91 S.J.D.

Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law, Columbia Law School.

“The Death of Corporate Law” (with Sharon Hannes). 

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

Shai Bernstein

Associate Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

“The Contribution of Immigrants to Innovation in the United States” (with Rebecca Diamond, Tim McQuad, and Beatriz Pousada).

Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.