Dorothy S. Lund

Columbia Law School

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1.

The Corporate Governance Machine

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 121, p. 2563, 2021, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 21-05, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 564/2021, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS21-15, USC Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 21-15
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 01 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2022
Dorothy S. Lund and Elizabeth Pollman
Columbia Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
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corporate governance, corporations, corporate purpose, shareholder primacy, stakeholder governance, ESG, environmental, social, CSR, corporate social responsibility, benefit corporations, boards of directors, independent directors, dual-class stock, corporate governance innovation

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The Case Against Passive Shareholder Voting

43 Journal of Corporation Law 493 (2017) , University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 829
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2020
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Securities Law, Institutional Investors, Hedge Fund Activism, Shareholder Activism, Passive Investing, Index Funds, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Shareholder Voting, Market for Corporate Control, Agency Costs

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Sexual Harassment and Corporate Law

Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 847, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 661
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 25 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 27 May 2018
Daniel J. Hemel and Dorothy S. Lund
New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School
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Sexual Harassment, Corporate Law

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Nonvoting Shares and Efficient Corporate Governance

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 71, 2019, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 828
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2019
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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corporate governance, corporate law, shareholder democracy, corporate finance, agency costs, securities Law, institutional investors, hedge fund activism, shareholder activism, passive investing, index funds, ETFs, mutual funds

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Corporate Crime and Punishment: An Empirical Study

100 Tex. L. Rev. 285 (2021), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-13
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 13 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2022
Dorothy S. Lund and Natasha Sarin
Columbia Law School and Yale University Law School and Yale School of Management
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corporate crime, financial crisis, deterrence, law and economics, enforcement

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Corporate Purpose

In Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance, 2nd ed. [Oxford Forthcoming], U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-28, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 711/2023
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2023
Dorothy S. Lund and Elizabeth Pollman
Columbia Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
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corporate purpose, corporate law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, CSR, fiduciary duties, corporate charter, shareholder primacy, shareholder value maximization, ESG, benefit corporations, stakeholders

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Asset Managers as Regulators

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 171, 2022, USC CLASS Research Paper Forthcoming, USC Law Legal Studies Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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institutional investors, index funds, corporate governance, board diversity, corporate political spending, climate change, corporate social responsibility, ESG, stewardship

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Giant Asset Managers, the Big Three, and Index Investing

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 23-13
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2023
Dorothy S. Lund and Adriana Robertson
Columbia Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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Big Three, passive investing, index funds, corporte governance

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Corporate Finance for Social Good

USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS20-3, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 20-3, 121 Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming 2021
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2021
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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corporate social responsibility, shareholder primacy, corporate purpose, ESG, corporate finance, corporate governance

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Toward a Dynamic View of Corporate Purpose

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 746/2023
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2023
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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corporate law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, CSR, fiduciary duties, shareholder primacy, shareholder value maximization, ESG, stakeholders, law and economics, law and history

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Passive Investing and Corporate Governance: A Law and Economics Analysis

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2020
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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Mutual Funds, Passive Funds, ETFs, Index Funds, Corporate Governance, Law and Economics, Corporate Law

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Enlightened Shareholder Value, Stakeholderism, and the Quest for Managerial Accountability

Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood (Elizabeth Pollman & Robert Thompson, eds., Forthcoming, USC CLASS Research Paper Series No. CLASS21-12, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 21-12
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2021
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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Flows, Financing Decisions, and Institutional Ownership of the U.S. Equity Market

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 749/2024
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 22 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2024
Alon Brav, Dorothy S. Lund and Lin Zhao
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Columbia Law School and Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
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index funds, passive investing, institutional investors, ETFs, Big Three, stewardship, engagement, shareholder activism, corporate voting, ownership concentration, institutional investors, antitrust, M&A, stock buybacks, corporate finance, law and economics

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Validation Capital

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 21-06, USC CLASS Research Paper Series No. CLASS21-16, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 21-16
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2021
Alon Brav, Dorothy S. Lund and Edward B. Rock
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law
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A Mission Statement for Mutual Funds in Shareholder Litigation

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 468/2019, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS19-23, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 19-23
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 22 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2020
Sean J. Griffith and Dorothy S. Lund
Fordham University School of Law and Columbia Law School
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mutual funds, index funds, institutional investors, corporate governance, stewardship, litigation, shareholder, engagement, monitoring, agency problems, activism, hedge fund, pension fund, market investor

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Lessons from SEC v. Citigroup: The Optimal Scope for Judicial Review of Agency Consent Decrees

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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SEC settlement, public enforcement, consent decree, judicial review, agency discretion, law and economics

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Conflicted Mutual Fund Voting in Corporate Law

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 1151, 2019
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Jun 2019
Sean J. Griffith and Dorothy S. Lund
Fordham University School of Law and Columbia Law School
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In Search of Good Corporate Governance

131 Yale L. J. Forum 854 (2022)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Mar 2022
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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corporate governance, corporate law, good governance, agency costs, mutual funds

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Purpose and Nonprofit Enterprise

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2024-71, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2024-35, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 819/2024
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2025
Cathy Hwang and Dorothy S. Lund
University of Virginia School of Law and Columbia Law School
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Nonprofits, benefit corporations, corporate governance, openAI, corporate purpose, enterprise foundations, dual class companies

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Public Primacy in Corporate Law

Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Jan 2024
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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corporate law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, CSR, fiduciary duties, shareholder primacy, shareholder value maximization, ESG, stakeholders, law and economics, agency theory

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Fixing MFW: Fairness and Vision in Controller Self-Dealing

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 818/2025
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2025
Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani and Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School, Tel Aviv University; Buchman Faculty of Law; Coller School of Management and Columbia Law School
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The Past, Present, and Future of Proxy Voting Choice

Number of pages: 20
Dorothy S. Lund
Columbia Law School
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corporate governance, Big Three, institutional investors, proxy voting, index funds, mutual funds, passively managed mutual funds, pass-through voting