Mariana Pargendler

Harvard University - Harvard Law School

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1.

Foundations of Corporate Law

FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No. 147, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 336/2017
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
John Armour, Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Mariana Pargendler
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Legal Personality; Limited Liability; Transferable Shares; Delegated Management; Investor Ownership; Agency Problems; Default and Mandatory Rules; Choice of Law; Share Ownership

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The Corporate Governance Obsession

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 359-402 (2016)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Corporate Governance, History, Political Economy

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Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S., and the EU

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 390, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 368, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 399, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 149/2010, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 80
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2015
Ronald J. Gilson, Henry Hansmann and Mariana Pargendler
Stanford Law School, Yale University - Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Corporate Governance, Regulatory Dualism, Capital Market Reform

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The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 123, pp. 100-165, 2014, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 219/2013
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 17 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2018
Henry Hansmann and Mariana Pargendler
Yale University - Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Corporate Governance, History, Ownership Structure, Shareholder Voting Rights

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The Role of the State in Contract Law: The Common-Civil Law Divide

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 143-189, 2018, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-01
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2018
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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good faith, mandatory terms, specific performance, penalty clause, fresh start

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As Diferenças entre Declarações e Garantias e os Efeitos do Conhecimento (The Differences between Representations and Warranties and the Effects of Buyer’s Knowledge (Sandbagging))

In: CASTRO, Rodrigo Rocha Monteiro de; AZEVEDO, Luis Andre; HENRIQUES, Marcus de Freitas. (Org.). Direito Societário, Mercado de Capitais, Arbitragem e Outros Temas - Homenagem a Nelson Eizirik: vol. III. 1ed.São Paulo: Quartier Latin, 2019, v. 3, p. 143-180.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Nov 2020
Mariana Pargendler and Carlos Portugal Gouvêa
Harvard University - Harvard Law School and University of Sao Paulo - Faculdade de Direito
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M&A; Declarações E Garantias; Conhecimento; Sandbagging; Representations and Warranties

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State Ownership and Corporate Governance

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 6, 2012
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 May 2011 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2013
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Governance Challenges of Listed State-Owned Enterprises Around the World: National Experiences and a Framework for Reform

Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3 (2017 Forthcoming), European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 352/2017, FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No. 155, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-12, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 566
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 29 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
Curtis J. Milhaupt and Mariana Pargendler
Stanford Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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state-owned enterprises (SOEs), corporate governance, mixed ownership

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Corporate governance in emerging markets

Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (Jeffrey N. Gordon & Wolf-Georg Ringe eds.), Forthcoming, FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No.17
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2017
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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The New Corporate Law of Corporate Groups

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 702/2023, Harvard Business Law Review, v. 14, p. 339-402, 2024. 
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2024
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Corporate groups, shareholder rights, regulatory partitioning, entity transparency

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The Rise and Decline of Legal Families

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 60, No. 4, 2012
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2013
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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The Rise of International Corporate Law

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper, 555/2020
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2024
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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international corporate law, international corporate governance, comparative corporate governance, legal implants

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The Grip of Nationalism on Corporate Law

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 437/2019
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2019
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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corporate law, corporate governance, globalization, nationalism, international relations

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In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper No. 13-071
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Feb 2013
Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
Harvard University - Harvard Law School, Brandeis University- International Business School and Insper Institute of Education and Research
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Veil Peeking: The Corporation as a Nexus for Regulation

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, v. 169, 2021, p. 717-781
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 06 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2021
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Modes of Gap Filling: Good Faith and Fiduciary Duties Reconsidered

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 82, 2008
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Aug 2007
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Contracts, Law and Economics, Good Faith, Fiduciary Duties

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Law and Economics in the Civil Law World: The Case of Brazilian Courts

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Law and Economics in the Civil Law World: The Case of Brazilian Courts

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 471
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2014
Mariana Pargendler and Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Harvard University - Harvard Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Law and economics; civil law; judicial empowerment

Law and Economics in the Civil Law World: The Case of Brazilian Courts

Tulane Law Review, v. 90, p. 430-470, 2015 , FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No. 117
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
Mariana Pargendler and Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Harvard University - Harvard Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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law and economics; comparative law; civil law; judicial empowerment; Brazil

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Controlling Shareholders in the Twenty-First Century: Complicating Corporate Governance Beyond Agency Costs

45 Journal of Corporation Law (2020, Forthcoming), European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 483/2019
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2019
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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controlling shareholders, corporate governance, nationalism, modularity

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Corporate Law in the Global South: Heterodox Stakeholderism

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 718/2023 , Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 47, Issue 2, 2024
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2024
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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corporate law, Global South, legal heterodoxy, stakeholders

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Governing State Capitalism: The Case of Brazil

Chinese State Capitalism and Institutional Change: Domestic and Global Implications Benjamin Liebman & Curtis J. Milhaupt eds. Oxford University Press (Forthcoming), FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series n. 112
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2014
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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State capitalism, discretion, corporate governance, legal institutions

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Corruption and Controlling Shareholders

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 698/2023, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 23-29
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2023
Kevin E. Davis and Mariana Pargendler
New York University School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Contract Law and Inequality

107 Iowa Law Review 1485 (2022), NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 21-11
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 31 May 2022
Kevin E. Davis and Mariana Pargendler
New York University School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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The Fallacy of Complete Corporate Separateness

Harvard Business Law Review Online, Vol. 14, pp. 1-17, 2024
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2024
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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corporate personhood, corporate separateness, fallacy of equivocation

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The Global South in Comparative Corporate Governance

Oxford Handbook on Corporate Law and Governance (Jeffrey N. Gordon & Wolf-Georg Ringe eds., Forthcoming) , European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 751/2024
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2024
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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A Law and Economics Perspective on Legal Families

The Methodologies of Law and Economics, T. Ulen, ed., Edward Elgar, 2013, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS13-01, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-11
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2013
Nuno Garoupa and Mariana Pargendler
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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Politics in the Origins: The Making of Corporate Law in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 60, No. 3, Summer 2012
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2013
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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RPTs in SOEs: Tunneling, Propping, and Policy Channeling

Luca Enriques and Tobias Tröger, eds., The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 517, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 386/2018
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2018
Curtis J. Milhaupt and Mariana Pargendler
Stanford Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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state-owned enterprises, related-party transactions, industrial policy

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Comparative Contract Law and Development: The Missing Link?

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 85, 2017, pp. 1717-1738
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2018
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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comparative contract law; contract institutions; law and development

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The Unintended Consequences of State Ownership: The Brazilian Experience

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, v. 13, n. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2013
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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State Ownership, Corporate Governance, Investor Protection

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How Universal is the Corporate Form? Reflections on the Dwindling of Corporate Attributes in Brazil

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2018
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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corporate law, limited liability, lock-in, comparative corporate governance

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Regulatory Partitioning as a Key Function of Corporate Personality

Elizabeth Pollman and Robert B. Thompson, eds., Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2021), NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-59
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2021
Mariana Pargendler
Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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corporate personality, regulatory partitioning, asset partitioning, veil peeking, veil piercing, nexus for regulation

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Family Ties and the Boundaries of the Firm in Antitrust Law

Forthcoming in the Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law (Florence Thépot and Anna Tzanaki eds., Edward Elgar).
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 May 2023 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2023
Mariana Pargendler, Maria Luiza Mesquita e Silva and Lucas Víspico
Harvard University - Harvard Law School, Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and University of São Paulo Law School
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antitrust law, family ties, boundaries of the firm, veil peeking, developing countries

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Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South: Adapting Private Laws to Local Contexts

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 24-41, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2024
Kevin E. Davis and Mariana Pargendler
New York University School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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