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Corporate Law: Corporate & Takeover Law eJournal

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Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Women and M&A Afra Afsharipour University of California, Davis - School of Law Date Posted: 09 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2022	1,207
2.	Why Corporate Law Is Private Law Asaf Raz University of Pennsylvania Law School Date Posted: 22 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2021	202
3.	The Breakdown of the Public–Private Divide in Securities Law: Causes, Consequences, and Reforms George S. Georgiev Emory University School of Law Date Posted: 29 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022	191
4.	The Current State and Future of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Regulations in the European Union Katrin Hummel and Dominik Jobst WU Vienna University of Economics and Business and WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Date Posted: 30 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2022	186
5.	The Fallacy of Complete Corporate Separateness Mariana Pargendler Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo Date Posted: 29 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2022	186
6.	Looking for the Economy-Wide Effects of Stock Market Short-Termism Mark J. Roe Harvard Law School Date Posted: 22 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2021	165
7.	Delaware’s Copycat: Can Delaware Corporate Law Be Emulated? Ido Baum and Dov Solomon Haim Striks Faculty of Law - College of Management and College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School Date Posted: 27 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2022	96
8.	Essential Businesses and Shareholder Value Aneil Kovvali University of Chicago Law School Date Posted: 28 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2022	79
9.	Why the Corporation Locks in Financial Capital but the Partnership Does Not Richard Squire Fordham University School of Law Date Posted: 10 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2022	74
10.	Piercing the Corporate Veil: The German Sausage Saga Mareike Walter and Martin Schunke Hogan Lovells - Munich Office and Hogan Lovells Int. LLP Date Posted: 11 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2022	63

All Time Top Papers

As of: 02 Jan 1997 - 22 Feb 2022

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Separation of Ownership and Control Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School Date Posted: 29 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2006	39,465
2.	What Matters in Corporate Governance? Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School Date Posted: 21 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009	35,514
3.	A Sober Look at SPACs Michael Klausner, Michael Ohlrogge and Emily Ruan Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2022	34,659
4.	Executive Compensation Kevin J. Murphy University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business Date Posted: 19 May 1999 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2001	20,664
5.	The History of Corporate Governance Brian R. Cheffins University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law Date Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 May 2013	20,485
6.	What is Corporate Law? Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School Date Posted: 27 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017	15,660
7.	Agency Problems and Residual Claims Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School Date Posted: 29 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2005	15,422
8.	The End of History for Corporate Law Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School Date Posted: 10 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2001	14,095
9.	The Essential Elements of Corporate Law John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School Date Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018	13,546
10.	The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics Date Posted: 07 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015	13,470