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

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Ronald J. Gilson and Bernard S. Black, Some of the Essentials of Finance and Investment, Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1993. 252 pages
Ronald J. Gilson, Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance: An Academic Perspective, in, in 25 Annual Institute on Securities Regulation. New York, NY: Practising Law Institute, 1993.
Ronald J. Gilson and Mark J. Roe, Understanding the Japanese Keiretsu: Overlaps Between Corporate Governance and Industrial Organization, 102 Yale Law Journal 871-906 (1993).
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman, Investment Companies as Guardian Shareholders: The Place of the M.S.I.C. in the Corporate Governance Debate, 45 Stanford Law Review 985-1010 (1993).
Ronald J. Gilson, Regulating the Equity Component of Capital Structure: The SEC's Response to the One Share, One Vote Controversy, Center for Law and Economic Studies, Columbia University School of Law, No. 91 (1993).
Ronald J. Gilson and Robert H. Mnookin, Cooperation and Competition in Litigation: Can Lawyers Dampen Conflict?, Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation No. 40 (1993).
Ronald J. Gilson, How Many Lawyers Does it Take to Change an Economy? (Debate: Do Lawyers Impair Economic Growth?), 17 Law and Social Inquiry 635-643 (Fall 1992).
Ronald J. Gilson, The Political Ecology of Takeovers: Thoughts on Harmonizing the European Corporate Governance Environment, 61 Fordham Law Review 161-192 (1992)
Ronald J. Gilson, Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance: An Academic Perspective, 24 Annual Institute on Securities Regulation 647-679 (1992)
Ronald J. Gilson, Regulating the Equity Component of Capital Structure: The SEC's Response to the One Share, One Vote Controversy, in, Modernizing U.S. Securities Regulation : Economic and Legal Perspectives. Kenneth Lehn and Robert W. Kamphuis, Jr., editors. New York, NY: Irwing Professional Publ., 1992.
Ronald J. Gilson, Regulating the Equity Component of Capital Structure: The SEC's Response to the One Share, One Vote Controversy, in, Modernizing U.S. Securities Regulation : Economic and Legal Perspectives. Kenneth Lehn and Robert W. Kamphuis, Jr., editors. New York, NY: Irwing Professional Publ., 1992. p. 239-254.
Ronald J. Gilson, Unlimited Liability and Law Firm Organization: Tax Factors and the Direction of Causation, 99 Journal of Political Economics 420-425 (April 1991).
Ronald J. Gilson, The Law and Finance of the Business Judgment Rule, in, The Battle for Corporate Control: Shareholder Rights, Stakeholder Interests, and Managerial Responsibilities. Arnold W. Sametz and James L. Bicksler, editors. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1991.
Ronald J. Gilson, Institutional Investors, Portfolio Performance, and Corporate Governance: A Brief for Professional Directors, in, : Institutional Investing : Challenges and Responsibilities of the 21st Century. Arnold W. Sametz, editor. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1991.
Ronald J. Gilson, Lilli A. Gordon, and John Pound, How the Proxy Rules Discourage Constructive Engagement: Regulatory Barriers to Electing a Minority of Directors, 17 The Journal of Corporation Law 29-47 (Fall 1991)
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman, Reinventing the Outside Director: An Agenda for Institutional Investors, 43 Stanford Law Review 863-906 (1991)
Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman, What Triggers Revlon? (Business Symposium: 'Management Buyouts: Strategies, Ethics and Other Considerations'), 25 Wake Forest Law Review 37-59 (1990)
Ronald J. Gilson, Just Say Not to Whom? (Business Symposium: 'Management Buyouts: Strategies, Ethics and Other Considerations'), 25 Wake Forest Law Review 121-128 (1990).
Ronald J. Gilson, Management of Shareholders?, 24 Stanford lawyer 22 (Spr 1990)
Ronald J. Gilson, The Devolution of the Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective, 49 Maryland Law Review 869-916 (1990)