Celebrating Henry Hansmann’s Book

The Ownership of Enterprise

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Celebrating Henry Hansmann’s Book:
The Ownership of Enterprise

Hybrid Conference

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 Friday, 29 October 2021 09:00 – 18:00 EDT (15:00 – 00:00 CEST)

Saturday, 30 October 2021 09:00 – 15:45 EDT (15:00 – 21:45 CEST) 

Organised by 

Zohar Goshen (Columbia Law School and ECGI)

 

About the Event
 

Twenty-five years ago, Harvard University Press published the seminal book The Ownership of Enterprise by Professor Henry Hansmann of Yale Law School. The book revolutionized the study of business organizational law, providing a far-reaching framework for understanding why some enterprises are owned by shareholders, while others are owned by producers or customers, and a third group — the non-profits —have no owners at all.
 
In lieu of a festschrift, the event explored the broad influence of Professor Hansmann’s masterwork through panel discussions and presentations of original papers by more than twenty professors of law, business, and economics. The event featured keynote speeches by two Nobel Laureates in Economics — Professor Oliver Hart of Harvard University, and Professor Bengt Holmström of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — as well as by Professor Hansmann himself.

Note: This was a hybrid event. Speakers and invited guests attended in person and the general audience attended online. 

 

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Friday, 29 October 2021 | 09:00 EDT (15:00 CEST)

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Coffee Break

Saturday, 30 October 2021 | 09:00 EDT (15:00 CEST)

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Speakers

Zohar Goshen

Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law
Columbia Law School
Research Member

John Armour

Professor of Law and Finance
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Fellow, Research Member

Ryan Bubb

Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Research Member

Roberta Romano

Sterling Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Yale Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Kathryn Judge

Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Research Member

Patrick Bolton

Professor of Finance and Economics
Imperial College London
Fellow, Research Member

Luigi Zingales

Robert C. McCormack Professor Entrepreneurship & Finance
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Fellow, Research Member

Eric Talley

Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Research Member

Oliver Hart

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Department of Economics, Harvard University
Fellow, Research Member

Jill Fisch

Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Research Member

Mark Roe

David Berg Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Marcel Kahan

George T. Lowy Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Fellow, Research Member

Lucian Bebchuk

James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance
Harvard Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Jeffrey Gordon

Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership
Columbia Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Ronald Gilson

Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business
Columbia Law School & Stanford Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Robert Sitkoff

Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law and John L. Gray Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Research Member

Margaret Blair

Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise
Vanderbilt University Law School
Research Member

Reinier Kraakman

Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Edward Rock

Martin Lipton Professor of Law
NYU Law
Fellow, Research Member

Henry Hansmann

Oscar M Ruebhausen Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Contact

Elaine McPartlan
European Corporate Governance Institute
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