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

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Ronald J. Gilson and Curtis J. Milhaupt, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Corporate Governance: A Minimalist Response to the New Merchantilism, 60 Stanford Law Review 1345 / Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 355 (March 2008).
Ronald J. Gilson and Charles K. Whitehead, Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Capital Markets, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Paper, No. 346 / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 302 (2007).
Ronald J. Gilson, Controlling Family Shareholders in Developing Countries: Anchoring Relational Exchange, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, No. 333 / Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper, No. 311 (2007).
Ronald Gilson, Victor Goldberg, Michael Klausner, and Daniel Raff. Building Foundations For A Durable Deal, Financial Times, October 12, 2006.
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman, Clark's Treatise on Corporate Law: Filling Manning's Empty Towers (Symposium: Robert Clark's Corporate Law: Twenty Years of Change), 31 Journal of Corporation Law 599 (2006).
Ronald J. Gilson, Catalyzing Corporate Governance: The Evolution of the United States System in the 1980s and 1990s, 24 Company and Securities Law Journal 143 (2006).
Ronald J. Gilson, Law and Economics in the Law Firm: The Case of MACS, in New Frontiers of Law and Economics: First International Scientific Conference on Law and Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Peter Nobel and Ernst Mohr, eds., Zurich: Schulthess, 2006.
Ronald J. Gilson, Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy, 119 Harvard Law Review 1641 (2006).
Ronald J. Gilson, Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating The Comparative Taxonomy, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, no. 309 (2005).
Ronald J. Gilson and Alan Schwartz, Understanding MACs: Moral Hazard in Acquisitions, 21 Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 330 (2005).
Ronald J. Gilson, Separation and the Function of Corporation Law, 2 Berkeley Business Law Journal 141 (2005).
Ronald J. Gilson, Takeovers in the Boardroom: Burke Versus Schumpeter, 60 Business Lawyer 1419 (2005).
Ronald J. Gilson, Separation and the Function of Corporation Law, Working Paper Draft (January 2005).
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier M. Kraakman, Takeovers in the Boardroom: Burke versus Schumpeter, SSRN Working Paper (May 2005). 15 pages.
Ronald J. Gilson, Separation and the Function of Corporation Law, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, no. 307 (2005).
Ronald J. Gilson, Takeovers in the Boardroom: Burke versus Schumpeter (306), Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper, no. 306 (2005). (with Reinier Kraakman)
Ronald J. Gilson, Choice as Regulatory Reform: The Case of Japanese Corporate Governance, 53 American Journal of Comparative Law 343 (2005). (with Curtis J. Milhaupt)
Ronald J. Gilson, Globalizing Corporate Governance: Convergence of Form or Function, in, Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance. Jeffrey N. Gordon and Mark J. Roe, editors. Cambridge University Press, 2004. p. 128-158.
Ronald J. Gilson, The Poison Pill in Japan: The Missing Infrastructure, Stanford Law & Economics, Working Paper no. 244 (January 2004). 22 pages.
Ronald J. Gilsonand Alan Schwartz, Understanding MACs: Moral Hazard in Acquisitions, Stanford Law & Economics Working Paper, no. 278 (Februrary 2004). 49 pages.