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Tel: 215.898.8631
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: erock@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Antitrust
- Corporations
- Securities Regulation
Bio
Edward Rock's prominence as an influential and powerful thinker in corporate law was recognized in the fall of 2001 with his designation as the Inaugural Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law.
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Edward Rock's prominence as an influential and powerful thinker in corporate law was recognized in the fall of 2001 with his designation as the Inaugural Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law. The Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professorship, and the associated Saul A. Fox Research Fund, were established in 2001 with a gift of $4 million from the Winding Way Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation’s Endowment Fund. The gift, in honor of Saul A. Fox, a 1978 graduate of the Law School, is historic in that it was the largest single gift to establish a chaired professorship in the history of the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to teaching and research, Rock applies his well-honed expertise to co-directing Penn's Institute for Law and Economics, shaping the Institute's programs in corporate governance. With Michael Wachter, he serves as convener and moderator for nationally known roundtable conferences that bring together eminent legal scholars, practitioners, judges and policy makers.
Rock's publication record reflects this confluence of "real world" issues and legal theory; he has written widely on topics including: mergers and acquisitions; international venture capital; the role of institutional investors in corporate governance; close corporations; the role of norms in corporate law; the overlap between corporate law and antitrust; the overlap between corporate law and labor law; comparative corporate law; and the regulation of mutual funds.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Associate Dean (2006 -); Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law (2001 -); Professor (1993-2001); Assistant Professor (1989-93)
The Wharton School, Penn - Professor of Business and Public Policy (2001 -)
Institute for Law and Economics, Penn - Co-Director (1998 -)
Visiting Professor - Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Columbia Law School; International Banking and Capital Markets Law, Institut fur Arbeits-Wirtschafts und Zivil Recht, Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universitaet, Germany
Representative Publications
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 1021 (2007) (with Marcel Kahan) (winner of the 2007 De Brauw Prize for the best 2006 paper in the ECGI Law Working Paper series).
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Corporate Flight, 36 MISHPATIM 161 (2006) (in Hebrew).
The Corporate Form as a Solution to a Discursive Dilemma, 162 J. INST. & THEOR. ECON. 57 (2006).
Symbiotic Federalism and the Structure of Corporate Law, 58 VAND. L. REV. 1573 (2005). (with Marcel Kahan).
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THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH (Oxford 2004) (with REINIER KRAAKMAN, ET AL.).
A New Player in the Boardroom: The Emergence of the Independent Directors’ Counsel, 59 BUS. LAWYER 1389 (2004) (with Geoffrey C. Hazard).
Corporate Control Transactions, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 463 (2003) (with Michael L. Wachter).
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Coming to America?: Venture Capital, Corporate Identity and U.S. Securities Law, in GLOBAL MARKETS, DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS 476 (Curtis Milhaupt, ed., Columbia University Press 2003).
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Corporate Constitutionalism: Antitakeover Charter Provisions as Precommitment, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 473 (2003) (with Marcel Kahan).
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Dangerous Liaisons: Corporate Law, Trust Law, and Interdoctrinal Legal Transplants, 96 NW. U. L. REV. 651 (2002) (with Michael L. Wachter).
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Securities Regulation as Lobster Trap: A Credible Commitment Theory of Mandatory Disclosure, 23 CARDOZO. L. REV. 675 (2002).
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Meeting by Signals, Playing by Norms: Complementary Accounts of Nonlegal Cooperation in Institutions, 36 U. RICH. L. REV. 423 (2002) (with Michael L. Wachter).
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pill: Adaptive Responses to Takeover Law, 69 U. CHI. L. REV. 871 (2002) (with Marcel Kahan).
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Greenhorns, Yankees and Cosmopolitans: Venture Capital, IP's, Foreign Firms & U.S. Markets, 2 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 711 (2001).
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Norms & Corporate Law, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1607 (2001).
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Islands of Conscious Power: Law, Norms and the Self-Governing Corporation , 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1619 (2001) also published in 44 CORP. PRAC. COMMENTATOR 115 (2002) (with Michael Wachter).
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Waiting for the Omelet to Set: Match-Specific Assets and Minority Oppression in the Close Corporation, in CONCENTRATED CORPORATE OWNERSHIP, (Randall Morck ed., NBER/University of Chicago Press 2000), and 24 J. CORP. L. 913 (1999) (with Michael Wachter).
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Tailored Claims and Governance: The Fit Between Employees and Shareholders, in EMPLOYEES & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (Margaret Blair & Mark Roe eds., (Brookings Institution 1999) (with Michael Wachter).
Saints and Sinners: How Does Delaware Corporate Law Work?, 44 U.C.L.A. L. REV. 1009 (1997).
The Enforceability of Norms and the Employment Relationship, 144 U. PA. L. REV. 1913 (1996) (with Michael Wachter).
America's Fascination with German Corporate Governance, 40 DIE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT 291 (1995).
Labor Law Successorship: A Corporate Law Approach, 92 MICH. L. REV. 203 (1993) (with Michael Wachter).
Corporate Law Through an Antitrust Lens, 92 COLUM. L. REV. 497 (1992).
For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
The Corporate Form as a Solution to a Discursive Dilemma, JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL & THEORETICAL ECONOMICS (forthcoming).
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