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Current & Recent Research at Penn Law

The Penn Law faculty are engaged in a wide array of scholarship in traditional, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge areas of inquiry. This newly created section of our website, which we will continue to populate in the months ahead, gives you access and the ability to search current and earlier work.

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A New Player in the Boardroom: The Emergence of the Independent Directors' Counsel, 59 BUS. LAW. 1389 (2004).
Date Posted: September 15, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. and Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Legal Ethics, Legal Profession, Professional Ethics

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Comparative Law, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics, Government Regulation, Regulation of Transnational Financial Markets, Securities Law

Corporate Constitutionalism: Antitakeover Charter Provisions as Precommitment, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 473 (2003) (with Marcel Kahan).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics

Corporate Control Transactions, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 463 (2003) (with Edward B. Rock).
Date Posted: March 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics

Corporate Control Transactions, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 463 (2003) (with Michael L. Wachter).
Date Posted: March 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics

Corporate Flight, 36 MISHPATIM 161 (2006) (in Hebrew).
Date Posted: July 23, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Corporations

Dangerous Liaisons: Corporate Law, Trust Law, and Interdoctrinal Legal Transplants, 96 NW. U. L. REV. 651 (2002) (with Edward B. Rock).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Legal Studies, Management, Organizations, Trusts

Dangerous Liaisons: Corporate Law, Trust Law, and Interdoctrinal Legal Transplants, 96 NW. U. L. REV. 651 (2002) (with Michael L. Wachter).
Date Posted: March 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Management, Organizations, Trusts

Embattled CEOs, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-25; NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-43; ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 116/2009. (October 3, 2008) (with Marcel Kahan).
Date Posted: April 01, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Economics

Greenhorns, Yankees and Cosmopolitans: Venture Capital, IP's, Foreign Firms & U.S. Markets, 2 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 711 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Comparative Law, Corporations, Economics, Organizations, Securities Law

Hedge Fund Activism in the Enforcement of Bond Covenants, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 281 (2009) (with Marcel Kahan).
Date Posted: January 27, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Securities Law

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).
Date Posted: July 23, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Corporate Finance, Corporations, Organizations, Securities Law

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics, Securities Law

How to Prevent Hard Cases from Making Bad Law: Bear Stearns, Delaware and the Strategic Use of Comity, 58 EMORY L.J. 713 (2009) (with Marcel Kahan).
Date Posted: January 27, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Commercial Law, Corporations

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Management, Organizations

Labor Law Successorship: A Corporate Law Approach, 92 MICH. L. REV. 203 (1993) (with Michael Wachter).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock

Meeting by Signals, Playing by Norms: Complementary Accounts of Nonlegal Cooperation in Institutions, 36 U. RICH. L. REV. 423 (2002) (with Edward B. Rock).
Date Posted: March 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Law and Society, Social Science and the Law, Social Welfare

Meeting by Signals, Playing by Norms: Complementary Accounts of Nonlegal Cooperation in Institutions, 36 U. RICH. L. REV. 423 (2002) (with Michael L. Wachter).
Date Posted: March 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Law and Society, Social Science and the Law, Social Welfare

Norms & Corporate Law, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1607 (2001).
Date Posted: March 08, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics, Law Enforcement and Corrections, Management

On Improving Shareholder Voting, in FESTSCRIFT FOR DANIEL PRENTICE (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009) (with Marcel Kahan).
Date Posted: January 27, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Securities Law

Saints and Sinners: How Does Delaware Corporate Law Work?, 44 U.C.L.A. L. REV. 1009 (1997).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations

Securities Regulation as Lobster Trap: A Credible Commitment Theory of Mandatory Disclosure, 23 CARDOZO. L. REV. 675 (2002).
Date Posted: March 15, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Economics, Government Regulation, Regulated Industries, Securities Law

Symbiotic Federalism and the Structure of Corporate Law, 58 VAND. L. REV. 1573 (2005) (with Marcel Kahan).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics, Jurisprudence, Securities Law, State and Local Government Law

THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH (Oxford 2004) (with REINIER KRAAKMAN, ET AL.).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Comparative Law, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Legal Education

The Corporate Form as a Solution to a Discursive Dilemma, 162 J. INST. & THEOR. ECON. 57 (2006).
Date Posted: March 01, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations

The Corporate Form as a Solution to a Discursive Dilemma, 162 JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL & THEORETICAL ECONOMICS 57 (2006).
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Corporations, Organizations, Social Science and the Law

The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting, 96 GEO. L. J. 1227 (2008) (with Marcel Kahan).
Date Posted: January 27, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Edward B. Rock
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Commercial Law, Corporations, Securities Law

Waiting for the Omelet to Set: Match-Specific Assets and Minority Oppression in the Close Corporation, in CONCENTRATED CORPORATE OWNERSHIP, (Randall Morck ed., NBER/Univ. of Chicago 2000), also published in 24 J. Corp. L. 913 (1999) and 42 CORP. PRACT. COMMENTATOR 1 (2000) (with Edward B. Rock).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Economics, Management

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Edward B. Rock and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Economics, Management