William Wilson Bratton

Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, Emeritus

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 California, Cornell, Michigan, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Texas, 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, 8th ed. 2016), 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. In 2013, he was Simizu Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the London School of Economics.

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William Wilson Bratton

Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, Emeritus

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A Tale of Two Markets: Regulation and Innovation in Post-Crisis Mortgage and Structured Finance Markets, 2020 U. ILL. L. REV. 47 (2020) (with Adam J. Levitin).

Corporate Law and the Myth of Efficient Market Control, 105 CORNELL L. REV. 675 (2020) (with Simone Sepe).

The Modern Corporation and Private Property Revisited: Gardiner Means and the Administered Price, 41 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 591 (2019).

Hedge Fund Activism, Poison Pills, and the Jurisprudence of Threat, in THE CORPORATE CONTRACT IN CHANGING TIMES: IS THE LAW KEEPING UP? (Steven Davidoff Solomon & Randall Stuart Thomas eds., Chicago 2019).

The New Bond Workouts.166 U. PA. L. REV. 1597 (2018) (with Adam J. Levitin).

Foreword: Bankruptcy’s New and Old Frontiers, 166 U. PA. L. REV. 1571 (2018) (with David A. Skeel).

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Reconsidering the Evolutionary Erosion Account of Corporate Fiduciary Law (December 21, 2020). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 21-04, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming.