
Lucian A. Bebchuk
· James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and FinanceHarvard University · Harvard Law School
Active 1980–2025
About
Lucian A. Bebchuk is the James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance at Harvard Law School and serves as the Director of the Program on Corporate Governance. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Inaugural Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Network, and the Director of the SSRN Corporate Governance Network. Trained in both law and economics, Bebchuk holds an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Harvard Economics Department. His research focuses on corporate governance, law and finance, and law and economics. Bebchuk is recognized as one of the nation's leading scholars in law and economics, with significant contributions to the study of corporate control, governance, and insolvency. He has authored numerous research papers and a widely acclaimed book on executive compensation, and his work has been published in top academic journals across law, economics, and finance. Bebchuk has served as President of the Western Economics Association International and the American Law and Economics Association, and has received several awards for his contributions to corporate governance and financial research. He is actively involved in policy-making, public debate, and advising governmental bodies, and heads the Shareholder Rights Project, which has worked to improve board declassification at major corporations.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Finance
- Business
- Public relations
- Law
- Market economy
- Accounting
- Economics
Selected publications
Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed About the Probability of Apprehension
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 2 citations
preprintOpen access1st authorCorrespondingHow to Control Controller Conflicts
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
preprintOpen access1st authorCorrespondingHow Twitter Pushed Stakeholders Under the Bus: Presentation Slides
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingHow Twitter Pushed Stakeholders Under The Bus
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 6 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingCompeting Views on the Economic Structure of Corporate Law
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 1 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThe Perils and Questionable Promise of ESG-Based Compensation
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 112 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingDoes Enlightened Shareholder Value Add Value?
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 25 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingStakeholder Capitalism in the Time of COVID: Appendix
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 1 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThe Law and Economics of Equity Swap Disclosure
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingStakeholder Capitalism in the Time of COVID
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 37 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 136 shared
Alma Cohen
Harvard University Press
- 108 shared
Jesse M. Fried
European Corporate Governance Institute
- 55 shared
Itay Goldstein
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 51 shared
Zvika Neeman
- 46 shared
Alon Brav
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 44 shared
Marcel Kahan
- 43 shared
Wei Jiang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 40 shared
Kobi Kastiel
Labs
Program on Corporate GovernancePI
Awards & honors
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Inaugural Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Networ…
- International Corporate Governance Network’s Award for Excel…
- Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute’s best aca…
- Marshall Blume prize in financial research
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