Law & Economics
Portrait of Henry B. Hansmann
Scholar portraitSource: Yale Law School

Hansmann

Henry B. Hansmann

Corporate-law and organizational-law scholar

organizational lawcorporate lawownership design

Official Source Note

Yale Law School lists Hansmann as Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law and describes his scholarship as focused on the law and economics of organizational ownership and design.

Hansmann is included because his work on ownership form, organizational law, asset partitioning, nonprofit enterprise, and corporate-law function is foundational for understanding legal entities as economic institutions.

Source: Yale Law School

Relevance to the Archive

Hansmann is central for understanding legal personality, asset partitioning, ownership form, and the functional analysis of corporate law.

Representative Contributions

  • The Ownership of Enterprise (1996)
  • The Essential Role of Organizational Law (2000)
  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law (with coauthors)

Works Included Here