Portrait of Ronald J. Gilson
Scholar portraitSource: Columbia Law School

Gilson

Ronald J. Gilson

Corporate-law, securities-law, and law-and-economics scholar

corporate governancesecurities regulationtransactional law

Official Source Note

Columbia Law School lists Gilson as Marc and Eva Stern Professor Emeritus of Law and Business and describes him as an expert on the law and economics of corporations and securities. The profile identifies corporate governance, corporate finance, capital markets, complex contracting, mergers and acquisitions, and securities regulation among his areas.

Gilson is included because his work connects market efficiency, transactional law, deal structure, venture capital contracting, corporate governance, and securities regulation.

Source: Columbia Law School

Relevance to the Archive

Gilson is central for understanding market efficiency, transactional law, venture capital contracting, corporate governance, and the economic structure of deals.

Representative Contributions

  • The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency (with Reinier Kraakman)
  • Value Creation by Business Lawyers
  • The Agency Costs of Agency Capitalism (with Jeffrey N. Gordon)

Works Included Here