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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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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 Policy and the Coherence of Delaware Takeover Law, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 523 (2003) (with Richard E. Kihlstrom).
Date Posted: March 11, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics, Management, Securities Law, State and Local Government Law

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

Difficulties of Regulation When Wage Costs Are the Major Cost, FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN POSTAL REFORM (Michael A. Crew & Paul R. Kleindorfer eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001) (with Barry T. Hirsch & James W. Gillula).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Economics, Government Regulation, Labor Economics, Regulated Industries

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

Islands of Conscious Power: Law, Norms, and the Self-Governing Corporation, 149 U. PA. L. REV., 1619 (June 2001). Also published in 44 CORP. PRAC. COMMENTATOR 115 (2002) (with Edward B. Rock).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Economics, Legal Studies, Management

Judging Unions' Future Using a Historical Perspective: The Public Policy Choice Between Competition and Unionization, 2 J. LAB. RES. 339 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Labor Law, Law and History
Keywords: Economics, Labor Economics, Labor Law, Legal History

Labor Unions: A Corporatist Institution in a Competitive World, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 581 (2007).
Date Posted: July 26, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Labor Law, Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Labor Law, Organizations

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

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

Rationalizing Appraisal Standards in Compulsory Buyouts, 50 B.C. L. REV. 1021 (2009) (with Lawrence A. Hamermesh).
Date Posted: April 03, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Larry Hamermesh and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Organizations, Securities Law

Shareholder Primacy's Corporatist Origins: Adolf Berle and The Modern Corporation, 34 J. CORP. L. 99 (2008) (with William W. Bratton).
Date Posted: January 26, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Commercial Law, Law and Business
Keywords: Corporate Finance, Corporations, Securities Law

Takeover Defense When Financial Markets Are (Only) Relatively Efficient, presented at the ILE Corporate Governance Roundtable, April 2002 and the Preferences and Rationale Choice Symposium, March 2002.
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics, Management, State and Local Government Law

The Fair Value of Cornfields in Delaware Appraisal Law, 31 J. CORP. L. 119 (2005) (with Lawrence Hamermesh).
Date Posted: May 05, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Larry Hamermesh and Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics

The Rise and Decline of Unions, 30 REG. 23 (2007).
Date Posted: January 27, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Labor Law, Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Employment Law, Labor Economics, Labor Law

The Short and Puzzling Life of the “Implicit Minority Discount”, 156 U. PA. L. REV. 1 (2007) (with Lawrence Hamermesh).
Date Posted: July 23, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Corporations, Securities Law

Theories of the Employment Relationship: Choosing Between Norms and Contracts, in THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WORK AND THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP (B.E. Kaufman, ed., Champaign: IRRA, 2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Labor Law, Law and Economics
Keywords: Contracts, Economics, Employment Law, Labor Economics, Labor Law, 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/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

Why Defer to Managers? A Strong-Form Efficiency Model. (with Richard Kihlstrom) ILE Working Paper 05-19 (2005).
Date Posted: July 26, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Michael L. Wachter
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Economics, Management