Ronald J. Gilson
Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz, Contracting About Private Benefits of Control, Columbia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 436, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Research Paper No. 438, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 461 (2012).
Ronald J. Gilson, Alan Schwartz, Constraints on Private Benefits of Control: Ex Ante Control Mechanisms Versus Ex Post Transaction Review, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 455 / Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 432 / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 430 (2012).
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman, Marketing Efficiency After the Fall: Where Do We Stand Following the Financial Crisis?, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law, Claire A. Hill, Brett H. McDonnell, eds., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012.
Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel, Robert E. Scott, Contract and Innovation: The Limited Role of Generalist Courts in the Evolution of Novel Contractual Terms, New York University Law Review, Forthcoming / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 424 / Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 429 / ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 193/2012 (2012).
Ronald J. Gilson, Catalysing Corporate Governance: The Evolution of the United States System in the 1980s and 1990s, in The History of Modern U.S. Corporate Governance, Brian R. Cheffins, editor, Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
Ronald J. Gilson, Henry Hansmann & Mariana Pargendler, Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the United States, and the European Union, 63 Stanford Law Review 475 (2011).
Ronald J. Gilson, Reflections on Value Creation, in Keynote Discussion: Just Exactly What does a Transactional Lawyer Do?, 12 Transactions, the Tennessee Journal of Business Law 175 (2011).
Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel, Robert E. Scott, Contract, Uncertainty and Innovation, in Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform, Kauffman Task Force on Law, Innovation, and Growth, ed., Kansas City, Mo.: Kauffman, 2011.
Robert E. Litan, Yochai Benkler, Henry N. Butler, John Henry Clippinger, Robert Cook-Deegan, Robert, D Cooter, Aaron S. Edlin, Nicole Stelle Garnett, Ronald J. Gilson, Oliver R. Goodenough, Gilian K. Hadfield, Mark A. Lemley, and 12 others, Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform, Working Paper Series, (2011).
Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel, Robert E. Scott, Contract, Uncertainty and Innovation, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper no. 385 / Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper no. 403 (2010)
Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sobel, Robert E. Scott, Braiding: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracting in Theory, Practice and Doctrine, 110 Columbia Law Review, 1377 (2010)
Ronald J. Gilson and Curtis J. Milhaupt, Economically Benevolent Dictators: Lessons for Developing Democracies, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, No. 1564925 / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 371 (2010).
Ronald Gilson and Michael Klausner, That's My Money You're Using Forbes Magazine, March 29, 2010, pg. 28.
Ronald J. Gilson, Henry Hansmann, and Mariana Pargendler, Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S., and the EU, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 390 (January 2010) / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 368 / Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 399 / ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 149/2010.
Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel, and Robert E. Scott, Braiding: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracting Theory, Practice and Doctrine, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 389 (January 2010) / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 367.
Ronald J. Gilson, Breaking Bankers? Korea Times, December 25, 2009.
Ronald J. Gilson, Locating Innovation: The Endogeneity of Technology, Organizational Structure and Financial Contracting, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 377 / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 353 (November 2009).
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman, A Clearinghouse for Corporate Directors, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, June 9, 2009, pg. 5.
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman, The Directors Guild, New York Times, June 8, 2009, pg. A19.
Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel and Robert E. Scott, Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration, 109 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2009).