
Gilson
Ronald J. Gilson
Corporate-law, securities-law, and law-and-economics scholar
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
1984
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1984
Advanced
2013
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The Agency Costs of Agency Capitalism: Activist Investors and the Revaluation of Governance Rights
Ronald J. Gilson and Jeffrey N. Gordon
Columbia Law Review
