Gregory H. Shill

University of Iowa - College of Law

Professor of Law & Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law

Boyd Law Building

Iowa City, IA 52242

United States

University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

Adjunct Professor of Economics

108 Pappajohn Building

Iowa City, IA 52242

United States

New York University (NYU) - Marron Institute of Urban Management

60 Fifth Ave

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New York, NY 10011

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  • University of Iowa - College of Law

  • New York University (NYU) - Marron Institute of Urban Management

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“  I'm interested in firms, cities, and transportation--creatures, catalysts, and organizers of scale.  ”

  • University of Iowa - College of Law

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1.

Should Law Subsidize Driving?

95 New York University Law Review 498 (2020), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-03
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 04 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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law and economics, driving, autonomous vehicles, tax law, tort, criminal law, environmental law, moral hazard, insurance, land use, state & local government law, vehicle design

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Unsafe Streets' New Liability

2 Vision Zero Cities: International Journal of Traffic Safety Innovation 37 (2017), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-31
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 May 2017 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2017
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Vision Zero, traffic, safety, Turturro, tort, municipal liability, proprietary immunity, governmental function immunity, vehicular, complete streets, urbanism

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The Golden Leash and the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty

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The Golden Leash and the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty

64 UCLA Law Review 1246 (2017), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-35
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2017
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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corporate governance, golden leash, shareholder activism, fiduciary, duty of loyalty, hedge fund, director compensation, venture capital, director, activist, confidentiality agreement, information sharing, agency costs, procedural corporate governance, corporate finance

The Golden Leash and the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, November 2017
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 04 Mar 2019
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Shareholder Activism, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Golden Leash, Director Compensation, Hedge Fund, Fiduciary, Duty of Loyalty, Delaware, Blockholder

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Diversity, ESG, and Latent Board Power

46 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 255 (2022), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-37
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 07 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022
Gregory H. Shill and Matthew Strand
University of Iowa - College of Law and University of Iowa, College of Law
Downloads 678 (81,528)
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diversity, corporate governance, ESG, stakeholder, firm, environmental, social, governance, CSR, corporate social responsibility, independent director, independent board of directors, business judgment rule, benefit corporation, Delaware, public companies

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The Social Costs (and Benefits) of Dual-Class Stock

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The Social Costs (and Benefits) of Dual-Class Stock

75 Alabama Law Review 221 (2023), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-19
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2023
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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dual-class stock, corporate governance, social costs, externalities, agency costs, corporate law, securities law, Rule 14a-8, constitutional law, 303 Creative, Hobby Lobby, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Citizens United

The Social Costs (and Benefits) of Dual-Class Stock

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (October 16, 2023), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-31
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 30 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2024
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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dual-class stock, corporate governance, social costs, externalities, agency costs, corporate law, securities regulation, Rule 14a-8, constitutional law, 303 Creative, Hobby Lobby, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Citizens United

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Regulating the Pedestrian Safety Crisis

97 New York University Law Review Online 194 (2022), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-25
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2022
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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transportation law, NHTSA, NCAP, automobile regulation, safety, pedestrian, externality, cost-benefit analysis, innovation, technology, Peltzman, traffic engineering, public health, administrative rulemaking

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The Independent Board as Shield

77 Washington and Lee Law Review 1811 (2020), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-26
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 17 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2021
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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board of directors, corporate law, corporate governance, business judgment rule, agency costs, M&A, executive compensation, mutual funds, insider, manager, cleansing, conflict of interest, fiduciary duty, securities regulation, director primacy, shareholder litigation

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First Principles in Transportation Law and Policy

Book chapter in A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR US LAND USE AND PLANNING LAW (John Infranca & Sarah Schindler eds., 2023)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2024
Gregory H. Shill and Jonathan Levine
University of Iowa - College of Law and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan
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transportation, planning, land use, state and local government law, key performance indicator, KPI, traffic engineering, land use transportation interaction, LUTI, environmental review, CEQA, mobility, accessibility

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Congressional Securities Trading

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Congressional Securities Trading

96 Indiana Law Journal 313 (2020), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-11
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2021
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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securities regulation, insider trading, congressional insider trading, Rule 10b-5, 10b5-1, short-swing profits rule, Exchange Act, Section 16, Regulation Fair Disclosure, Reg FD, STOCK Act, Kelly Loeffler, Richard Burr, pandemic trade, COVID-19, coronavirus, congress

Congressional Securities Trading

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, April 2020
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 05 May 2020 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2022
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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securities regulation, pandemic, COVID-19, coronavirus, insider trading, congressional insider trading, Rule 10b-5, 10b5-1, short-swing profits rule, Section 16, Regulation Fair Disclosure, STOCK Act, Kelly Loeffler, Richard Burr, pandemic trading

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Rewriting Our Nation's Deadly Traffic Manual

Harvard Law Review F., Vol. 135, p. 1, 2021, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-39, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-01
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2022
Sara C. Bronin and Gregory H. Shill
Cornell University - College of Architecture, Art & Planning and University of Iowa - College of Law
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transportation, federal policy, FHWA, MUTCD, streets, street design, planning

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Ending Judgment Arbitrage: Jurisdictional Competition and the Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgments in the United States

54 Harvard International Law Journal 459 (2013)
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2013
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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conflicts of law, private international law, foreign judgment, laundering, recognition, enforcement, domestication, federalism, jurisdictional competition, regulatory, full faith and credit, preemption, alternative litigation financing, law and economics, human rights, Chevron Corporation, Dole

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Boilerplate Shock: Sovereign Debt Contracts as Incubators of Systemic Risk

89 Tulane Law Review 751 (2015), U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-16
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2015
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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sovereign debt, financial regulation, systemic risk, securities regulation, monetary law, Greece, contract design, boilerplate, bond, conflict of laws, eurozone, private international law, sovereign default, euro, European Union, EMU, lex monetae, ISDA, derivative, law of money, currency, Grexit

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The Puzzle and Persistence of Biglaw Clustering

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The Puzzle and Persistence of Biglaw Clustering

23 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 191 (2022), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-17
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2022
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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urban economics, law and economic geography, locational economics, spatial economics, transaction costs, agency costs, information costs, Biglaw, telework, ICT, law and economics, private international law, COVID-19 pandemic, coronavirus, organizational behavior, innovation

The Puzzle and Persistence of Biglaw Clustering

Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, October 3, 2022
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 07 Oct 2022
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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remote work, telework, work from home, urban economics, state and local government, transaction costs, agency costs, Biglaw, law and economics, COVID-19, pandemic, organizational behavior, innovation, professional responsibility

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Beyond Congestion Pricing

2025 Journal of Law and Mobility 1, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-02
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2025
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Transportation Safety in a Second-Best Environment

University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies Future of Mobility Series (2023), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-8
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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transportation, safety, driving, pedestrian, municipal, vehicle, second-best

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Public Comment on Proposed Revisions to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways - Proposed Rule; Notice of Proposed Amendments to National Standards for Traffic Control Devices: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets And Highways; Revision Docket Id: Fhwa-2020-0001 Regulation Identifier Number (Rin) 2125-Af85

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-24
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 May 2021 Last Revised: 26 May 2021
Sara C. Bronin and Gregory H. Shill
Cornell University - College of Architecture, Art & Planning and University of Iowa - College of Law
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transportation, law, policy, 85th percentile, speed, limits, equity, innovation, engineering, administrative, APA, highway, transit

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The Geography of Human Capital Management

77 Business Lawyer 679 (2022), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-18
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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human capital management, ESG, corporate governance, securities regulation, 10-K, HCM, technology, geography, spatial, telework, remote work, WFH, institutional investors, mutual funds, voting policy, disclosure, DEI

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The Future of Law and Transportation

106 Iowa Law Review 2107 (2021), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-33
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2021
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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transportation law, state and local government law, law and technology, engineering, land use, racial equity, climate change, mobility, accessibility

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Enemy Combatants and a Challenge to the Separation of War Powers in Al-Marri v. Wright, 487 F.3d 160 (4th Cir. 2007)

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2013
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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unlawful combatant, al Qaeda, al-marri, fourth circuit, Motz, terrorism, terror, dod, laws of war, detention, patriot act, aumf, authorization for the use of military force, MCA, military commissions act, domestic detention, executive detention, international humanitarian law, IHL, red cross, ICRC

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Does the Fed Have the Legal Authority to Buy Equities?

Confessions of a Supply Side Liberal (economics blog), 2015
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 10 Dec 2016
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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federal reserve, unconventional monetary policy, quantitative easing, Chevron

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Transportation Policy as Hindrance and Handmaiden of the Hundred-Year Life

Book chapter in LAW AND THE 100-YEAR LIFE (Anne Alstott & Abbe Gluck eds., Cambridge University Press), Forthcoming , U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-01
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2024
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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transportation, driving, mobility, disability, elder law, accessibility, urban planning, state and local government law, land use transportation interaction, LUTI, spatial, aging, life expectancy, public health, PYLL, Tiebout

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Public Comment on Request for Comments on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's New Car Assessment Program. Docket ID: NHTSA-2021-0002-0482

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-11
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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auto safety, car, vehicle, NHTSA, regulation, administrative law, transportation, road, crash

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Transportation Law and Policy

University of Iowa Libraries - Iowa Research Online, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-11
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Mar 2024
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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transportation, urban planning, automobiles, transit, teaching, pedagogy, open access

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HILJ Online Symposium: Greg Shill Responds to Christopher Whytock

Harvard International Law Journal Online Symposium, April 2, 2014
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 05 Jan 2016
Gregory H. Shill
University of Iowa - College of Law
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Impact of Driver Licensing Renewal Policies on Older Driver Crash Involvement and Injury Rates in 13 States, 2000–2019

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-07
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Cara Hamann, Jonathan Davis, Gilsu Pae, Motao Zhu, Gregory H. Shill, Brian Tefft and Joe Cavanaugh
University of Iowa College of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa - College of Public Health, University of Iowa - College of Public Health, Ohio State University (OSU) - Division of Epidemiology, University of Iowa - College of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Iowa
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