Scholarship
Publications and Forthcoming
Other People’s Votes: The Law and Economics of Proxy Advice (115 Geo. L.J. __, forthcoming 2027) (with Edwin Hu and Nadya Malenko).
The Reputation Paradox: Private Funds, New Managers, and the Allocation of Investment Capital (52 J. Corp. L. __, forthcoming 2027) (with William Clayton).
Trade the Pick: Ending Tanking in Professional Sports (J. Sports Analytics, forthcoming) (Online Appendix)
Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations, (22(4) J. Emp. Legal Stud. 525 (2025)).
Manipulating Random Assignment: Evidence from Consumer Bankruptcies in the Nation’s Largest Cities (with Edward Morrison and Belisa Pang) (forthcoming, Am. L. & Econ. Rev.).
Winner, American Law & Economics Review's Best Empirical Paper Award, 2025
Retail Shareholder Participation in the Proxy Process: Monitoring, Engagement, and Voting (with Alon Brav and Matthew Cain), 144(2) J. Fin. Econ. 492 (2022).
Media: Business Law Prof Blog
Is EU Merger Control Used for Protectionism? An Empirical Analysis (with Anu Bradford and Robert J. Jackson, Jr.), 15 J. Emp. Legal Stud. 165 (2018).
Working Papers
Custom Proxy Voting Advice (revise and resubmit, J. Fin.) (with Edwin Hu and Nadya Malenko).
Winner, Best Paper, First Annual Corporate Governance Academic Forum, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
Winner, Paul Van Arsdell Award in Corporate Finance, Midwest Finance Association, 2025
Winner, John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, University of Delaware’s John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, 2025
Winner, Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Northern Finance Association, 2024
Selected for 2023 American Law and Economics Conference Junior Scholars Featured Papers Panel, for the “best papers submitted or-coauthored by junior scholars with potential to be of general interest.”
Media: Business Law Prof Blog, ECGI video
Shareholder Voting Power (working paper)
Cited extensively by the Delaware Court of Chancery in Guilbeau v. Footprint International Holdco, Inc., C.A. No. 2024-0968-JTL (Del. Ch. May 11, 2026).
Media:
Gladstone Place Partners Weekly Newsletter (February 27, 2026)
Calcorporatelaw Substack (March 2, 2026)
Chancery Daily (March 18, 2026)
The Effects of a Selective Tax on Contract Design and Tax Timing (revise and resubmit, J. Legal Stud.).
Do Mutual Funds Represent Individual Investors? (working paper).
Winner, Governance Insight Award, Investments and Wealth Institute, 2022
Individual Investor Ideology (working paper) (with Robert J. Jackson, Jr.).
Winner, Best Paper, 2023 American Law and Economics Conference
Elon Musk Bought Twitter. Now He Must Own It. Guest Essay, New York Times (July 14, 2022) (With Yair Listokin)
The new proxy war. Guest Essay, Financial Times Alphaville (August 6, 2025) (With Edwin Hu)
Does the end of ‘benchmark’ proxy policies actually change anything?. Guest Essay, Financial Times Alphaville (October 23, 2025) (With Edwin Hu and Nadya Malenko)
Amicus Brief in FS Credit v. Saba Capital, 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 24-345 (October 16, 2025) (with several coauthors)
SEC Comment Letter regarding the New York Stock Exchange’s proposed rule change to exempt closed-end funds from the requirement to hold annual shareholder meetings (No. SR-NYSE-2024-35) (July 30, 2024) (with Daniel Taylor, Edwin Hu, Robert Bishop, Bradford Levy, and Shiva Rajgopal)
· Media:
Wall Street Journal (August 2, 2024)
Business Law Prof Blog (August 2, 2024)
Amicus Brief in Chamber of Commerce v. SEC, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 23-60255 (August 16, 2023) (with several coauthors)
Petition for Rulemaking to SEC on Rule 144 (March 9, 2023) (with Daniel Taylor, Bradford Lynch, and Edwin Hu)
Comment Letter to SEC on Modernization of Disclosures in Connection with Issuer Repurchases (June 27, 2022) (with Robert J. Jackson, Jr. and Edwin Hu)
Other People's Votes, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (July 3, 2026).
Shareholder Voting Power, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog (April 23, 2026).
Individual Investor Ideology, European Corporate Governance Institute Blog (November 18, 2025).
Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (August 12, 2024).
Custom Proxy Voting Advice, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (May 23, 2024) (with Edwin Hu and Nadya Malenko).
Retail Shareholder Participation in the Proxy Process: Monitoring, Engagement, and Voting, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (November 19, 2019) (with Alon Brav and Matthew Cain).