William Wilson Bratton

Books

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM: HEDGE FUNDS AND PRIVATE EQUITY, ECONOMICS AND REGULATION (Oxford University Press, 2015) (ed. with Joseph A. McCahery).
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CORPORATE FINANCE: CASES AND MATERIALS (Foundation Press, 7th ed.).
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Articles and Book Chapters

Hedge Fund Activism, Poison Pills, and the Jurisprudence of Threat (August 22, 2016), in THE CORPORATE CONTRACT IN CHANGING TIMES: IS THE LAW KEEPING UP? (William Savitt, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Randall Thomas eds., forthcoming) (forthcoming)

Bankers and Chancellors, 93 TEX. L. REV. 1 (2014) (with Michael L. Wachter).

Framing a Purpose for Corporate Law, 39 J. CORP. L. 713 (2014).

A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal: From Michael Milken to Enron to Goldman Sachs, 86 S. CAL. L. REV. 783 (2013) (with Adam J. Levitin).

Shareholders and Social Welfare, 36 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 489 (2013) (with Michael Wachter)

A World Without Treasuries?, in IS U.S. GOVERNMENT DEBT DIFFERENT? 13 (Franklin Allen et al. eds., 2012).

Reforming Securities Law Enforcement: Politics and Money at the Public/Private Divide, in REGULATORY BREAKDOWN: THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN U.S. REGULATION 200 (Cary Coglianese ed., University of Pennsylvania Press 2012). (with Michael L. Wachter)

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)

The Political Economy of Fraud on the Market, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 69 (2011) (with Michael Wachter).

Heedless Globalism: The SEC’s Roadmap to Accounting Convergence, 79 U. CIN. L. REV. 471 (2011).

Lyondell: A Note of Approbation, 55 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 561 (2010/2011).

Tracking Berle’s Footsteps: The Trail of The Modern Corporation’s Last Chapter, 33 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 849 (2010) (with Michael Wachter).

Unentrapped, 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 677 (2009).

The Case Against Shareholder Empowerment, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 653 (2010) (with Michael Wachter)

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).

How Does Corporate Mobility Affect Lawmaking: A Comparative Analysis, 52 AM. J. COMP. L. 347 (2009) (with Joseph McCahery and Erik Vermeulen).

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).

Shareholder Primacy’s Corporatist Origins: Adolf Berle and The Modern Corporation, 34 J. CORP. L. 99 (2008) (with Michael Wachter).

Hedge Funds and Governance Targets, 95 GEO. L.J. 1375 (2007).

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).

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).

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).

More publications can be found here.

Positions

Penn Law – Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law (2011-); Deputy Dean (2012- ); Professor of Law (2010-11)

Anton Philips Professor, Tilburg University, Department of Business Law (2009-10)

Research Associate – European Corporate Governance Institute (2007- )

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)

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.

Courses

• Corporations
• Corporate Finance: Legal Aspects
• Corporate Governance Seminar