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Portrait of Reinier H. Kraakman
Scholar portraitSource: Harvard Law School

Kraakman

Reinier H. Kraakman

Corporate-law scholar and comparative corporate-law theorist

comparative corporate lawagency problemslegal strategies

Official Source Note

Harvard Law School lists Kraakman as the Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law. His profile emphasizes corporate law, corporate finance, organizational law, corporate governance, and comparative corporate-law scholarship.

He is central to the site's corporate-law architecture because his work, especially The Anatomy of Corporate Law with coauthors, organizes corporate law around agency problems and functional legal strategies.

Source: Harvard Law School

Relevance to the Archive

Kraakman's framework is useful for readers learning how corporate-law doctrines can be compared by function rather than only by jurisdictional label.

Representative Contributions

  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law (with coauthors)
  • The End of History for Corporate Law (with Henry Hansmann)
  • Agency Problems and Legal Strategies

Works Included Here