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Tel: 215.898.6911
Email: wbratton@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Corporate Finance
- Corporations
- Accounting
- Law and Economics
- Legal History
Bio
William Bratton is recognized internationally as a leading writer on business law.
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William Bratton is recognized internationally as a leading writer on business law. He brings an interdisciplinary perspective to a wide range of subject matters that encompass corporate governance, corporate finance, accounting, corporate legal history, and comparative corporate law. His work has appeared in the Cornell, Michigan, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Virginia law reviews, and the Duke and Georgetown law journals, along with the American Journal of Comparative Law and the Common Market Law Review. His book, Corporate Finance: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2012), is the leading law school text on the subject. Bratton is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. In 2009, he was installed as the Anton Philips Professor at the Faculty of Law of Tilburg University in The Netherlands, the fifth American academic to hold the chair.
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Representative Professional Positions
Anton Philips Professor, Tilburg University, Department of Business Law (2009-10)
Research Associate – European Corporate Governance Institute (2007- )
Penn Law – Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law (2011-); Professor of Law (2010-11)
Georgetown – Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr. Professor of Business Law (2007-10); Professor of Law (2003-07)
George Washington University – Samuel Tyler Research Professor of Law (1999–2003)
Rutgers University School of Law-Newark – Professor of Law (Professor II) and Governor Woodrow Wilson Scholar (1995-99); Professor of Law (Professor I) (1990-94)
Representative Publications
At the Conjunction of Love and Money: Comment on Julie A. Nelson, Does Profit-Seeking Rule Out Love? Evidence (or Not) from Economics and Law , 35 WASH. U. J.L. & POL'Y 109 (2011)
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CORPORATE FINANCE: CASES AND MATERIALS (Foundation Press, 7th ed.).
(forthcoming 2012)
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INVESTOR ACTIVISM (ed. with Joseph McCahery)(collection to be
published by Oxford University Press in 2012). (forthcoming 2012)
The Political Economy of Fraud on the Market, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 69 (2011)(with Michael Wachter).
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Heedless Globalism: The SEC’s Roadmap to Accounting Convergence, 79 U. CIN. L. REV. 471 (2011).
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Lyondell: A Note of Approbation, 55 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 561 (2010/2011).
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Tracking Berle’s Footsteps: The Trail of The Modern Corporation’s Last Chapter, 33 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 849 (2010)(with Michael Wachter).
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Unentrapped, 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 677 (2009).
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The Case Against Shareholder Empowerment, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 653 (2010)(with Michael Wachter)
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An Anatomy of Corporate Legal Theory, 24 RESEARCH IN L. & ECON. 21 (2009), reprinted in LAW & ECONOMICS: TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE (Dana L. Gold ed., JAI Press 2009).
Treatment Differences and Political Realities in the GAAP-IFRS Debate, 95 VA. L. REV. 989 (2009)(with Lawrence Cunningham).
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How Does Corporate Mobility Affect Lawmaking: A Comparative Analysis, 52 AM. J. COMP. L. 347 (2009)(with Joseph McCahery and Erik Vermeulen).
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Private Equity’s Three Lessons for Agency Theory, 3 BROOKLYN J. CORP. FIN. & COM. L. 1 (2008); and 9 EUR. BUS. ORG. L. REV. 509 (2008).
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Shareholder Primacy’s Corporatist Origins: Adolf Berle and The Modern Corporation, 34 J. CORP. L. 99 (2008)(with Michael Wachter).
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Private Equity’s Three Lessons for Agency Theory, 9 EUR. BUS. ORG. L. REV. 509 (2008)
Hedge Funds and Governance Targets, 95 GEO. L.J. 1375 (2007).
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Private Standards, Public Governance: A New Look at the Financial Accounting Standards Board, 48 B.C. L. REV. 5 (2007).
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The Equilibrium Content of Corporate Federalism , 41 WAKE
FOREST L. REV. 619 (2006) (with Joseph McCahery), reprinted in 48 CORP. PRAC. COMMENTATOR 855 (2007) and MET RECHT (Peter Essers, et al. eds., Kluwer 2009).
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Whither Hostility?, in INTERNATIONAL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS ACTIVITY SINCE 1990: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND RECENT RESEARCH (G. Gregoriou & L. Renneboog, eds., Elsevier 2007).
Supersize Pay, Incentive Compatibility and the Volatile Model of the Shareholder, 1 VA. L.
& BUS. REV. 55 (2006), reprinted in PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (Scott Kieff & Troy Paredes, eds., Cambridge University Press 2010).
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Bond Covenants and Creditor Protection: Economics and Law, Theory and Practice, Substance and Process, 7 EUR. BUS. ORG. L. REV. 39 (2006).
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The New Dividend Puzzle, 93 GEO. L.J. 845 (2005) (Selected one of the ten best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2005, Corporate Practice Commentator poll of corporate law academics).
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Pari Passu and a Distressed Sovereign’s Rational Choices, 53 EMORY L.J. 823 (2004).
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Sovereign Debt Restructuring and the Best Interest of Creditors, 57 VAND. L. REV. 1 (2004)(with G. Mitu Gulati).
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Rules, Principles, and the Accounting Crisis in the United States, 5 EUR. BUS. ORG. L. REV. 7 (2004).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Hedge Funds and Governance Targets: Long Term Results (forthcoming)
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Off Balance: The Transactional Genealogy of Fraud from Enron to Goldman (with Adam Levitin). (forthcoming)
A Theory of Preferred Stock, (with Michael Wachter). (forthcoming)
Representative Professional Activities
Board member, AALS Business Associations Section, 1990-1993, 1999-2003, 2005- 2008.
Board member, AALS Socio-Economics Section, from 1996-1999.
Member, American Law Institute; American Economics Association; American Finance
Association; Society of American Law Teachers.
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