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Portrait of Bernard S. Black
Scholar portraitSource: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Black

Bernard S. Black

Empirical legal studies and law-and-finance scholar

law and financeempirical legal studiesinternational corporate governance

Official Source Note

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law lists Black as Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor, with appointments across law, business, finance, and policy. His official biography identifies law and finance, international corporate governance, corporate and securities law, and empirical methods for causal inference among his areas of expertise.

Black is included because his work links comparative corporate governance and securities-market development to empirical legal methods, legal institutions, and market infrastructure.

Source: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Relevance to the Archive

Black is important for linking comparative corporate governance, securities-market development, and empirical legal research methods.

Representative Contributions

  • The Legal and Institutional Preconditions for Strong Securities Markets
  • The Law and Finance of Corporate Acquisitions (with Ronald J. Gilson)
  • Is Delaware Losing Its Cases?

Works Included Here