Penn Law Dominates List of Top Corporate Scholarship as Five Professors Are Recognized for Best Articles of 2009
April 22, 2010
Articles by Penn Law Professors Tom Baker, William W. Bratton, Jill E. Fisch, Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter are among the Top Ten corporate and securities articles for 2009, as listed by the Corporate Practice Commentator. The articles were selected by teachers in corporate and securities law from a list of articles published and indexed in legal journals during 2009.
From among the more than 500 corporate and securities articles published last year, the journal named the following, written by Penn Law faculty, as Top Ten:
- “How the Merits Matter: Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance and Securities Settlements,” by Baker and Sean J. Griffith;
- “Shareholder Primacy’s Corporatist Origins: Adolf Berle and the Modern Corporation,” by Bratton and Wachter;
- “Director Elections and the Role of Proxy Advisors,” by Fisch, Stephen Choi and Marcel Kahan; and
