Charles K. Whitehead

Cornell Law School

Myron Taylor Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853

United States

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Scholarly Papers (20)

1.

The Volcker Rule and Evolving Financial Markets

Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 1, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-19
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Jun 2011
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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Volcker Rule, Dodd-Frank, Glass-Steagall, financial regulation, bank regulation, hedge funds, proprietary trading, credit default swaps, derivatives

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Lawyers and Fools: Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 102, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-63, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper 13-25
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2014
Lubomir P. Litov, Simone M. Sepe and Charles K. Whitehead
University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Cornell Law School
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corporate governance, board of directors, board composition, lawyer-directors

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Deconstructing Equity: Public Ownership, Agency Costs, and Complete Capital Markets

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 108, p. 231, 2008, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 86/2007, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 346, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 302, Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 07-25, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 8
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
Ronald J. Gilson and Charles K. Whitehead
Stanford Law School and Cornell Law School
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agency costs, capital markets, corporate governance, derivatives, LBO, private equity, risk, risk management

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The Evolution of Debt: Covenants, the Credit Market, and Corporate Governance

The Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 34, No. 3, p. 641, Spring 2009, CLEA 2008 Meetings Paper, Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 08-26
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2009
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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corporate governance, credit derivatives, credit market, loans, agency cost, credit crisis, covenants, private equity

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Reframing Financial Regulation

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 1, 2010, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-026
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2010
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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financial regulation, financial crisis, credit crisis, derivatives, hedge funds, AIG, Bear Stearns, money market funds

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Sandbagging: Default Rules and Acquisition Agreements

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 36, No. 3, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-19
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 May 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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Delaware Journal, Sandbag, Sandbagging, Acquisition Agreement, Compromise, Default Rule, Representations, Warranties, Risk

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What's Your Sign? - International Norms, Signals, and Compliance

Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27, p. 695, 2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 295
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Aug 2005
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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Norms, regulatory capital, Basel Accord, Basle Accord, compliance, network, banks, Japan

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Creditors and Debt Governance

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CORPORATE LAW, Claire Hill & Brett McDonnell, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 011-04
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2014
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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Corporate Governance, Debt Governance, Creditors, Covenants, Private Credit, Credit Derivatives

9.

Petition for Rulemaking on Short and Distort

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Mar 2020
Columbia Law School, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell Law School
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Short, Distort, Law, Finance, Disclosure

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The Nonprime Mortgage Crisis and Positive Feedback Lending

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper 15-23, ECGI - Law Working Paper, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper 15-40
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2018
Bernard S. Black, Charles K. Whitehead and Jennifer Coupland
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MBS, ABS, CDO, subprime, nonprime, financial crisis, feedback

11.

Paying for Risk: Bankers, Compensation, and Competition

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 100, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-87
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Charles K. Whitehead and Simone M. Sepe
Cornell Law School and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Bank, financial, financial crisis, risk-taking, compensation

12.

Destructive Coordination

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 2, p. 323, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 010-012
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2011
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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Dodd-Frank, risk, financial regulation, financial crisis, coordination, risk management, financial, financial market, systemic risk

13.

Size Matters: Commercial Banks and the Capital Markets

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 4, 2015, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-39
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Glass-Steagall, financial crisis, investment banks, commercial banks, risk management, financial regulation

14.

Banking on the Lawyers

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-13
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 26 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2020
Scott Guernsey, Saura Masconale, Simone M. Sepe and Charles K. Whitehead
University of Tennessee, The University of Arizona Department of Political Economy and Moral Science; Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Cornell Law School
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bank governance, risk management, lawyer-directors, financial crisis, corporate governance

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The Goldilocks Approach: Financial Risk and Staged Regulation

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 97, 2012, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-57
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jul 2012
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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financial crisis, financial regulation, financial, staging, sunset, bank capital, financial transaction tax, credit default swap

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Why Not a CEO Term Limit?

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 3, p. 1263, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 011-05
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2011
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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CEO, Term Limits, Corporate Governance, Entrenchment

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Slack v. Pirani: Brief for Amici Curiae Law and Business Professors in Support of Respondent

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 4391777, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Mar 2023
Columbia Law School, Columbia Law School, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of Idaho College of Law, Columbia University - Law School, Columbia Law School, University of North Carolina School of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University School of Law, Cornell Law School and George Washington University Law School
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securities law, direct listings, Section 11, tracing, FINRA, investor protection

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Equivalence: Form and Substance in Business Acquisitions

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, Steven Davidoff Solomon & Claire Hill, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-38
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Charles K. Whitehead
Cornell Law School
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Mergers, Acquisitions, M&A, form and substance, equivalence

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Rethinking Chutes: Incentives, Investment, and Innovation

95 Boston University Law Review 2029 (2015), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-41, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 15-35
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2015
Simone M. Sepe and Charles K. Whitehead
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Cornell Law School
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parachute, chute, executive compensation, takeover, governance, innovation, specific investment

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Proposed Brief of Current and Retired Practitioners and Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Reversal in In re Tesla, Inc. Derivative Litigation

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 5184169
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Apr 2025
Troutman Sanders LLP, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville - School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, University of Utah - Department of Finance, Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law, University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law, The University of Mississippi School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School, Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Drake University - Law School, Yale Law School, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, University of Iowa College of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Seattle University School of Law, St. John's University School of Law, Yale School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell Law School
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