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As of: 27 Jun 2019 - 26 Aug 2019

Rank	Paper	Downloads
1.	Do The Securities Laws Promote Short-Termism? James J. Park University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law Date Posted: 20 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2019	135
2.	Comparative Company Law 2018 Klaus J. Hopt Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Date Posted: 17 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2019	118
3.	A Property Theory of Corporate Law Robert Anderson Pepperdine University School of Law Date Posted: 17 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2019	101
4.	Conflicted Mutual Fund Voting in Corporate Law Sean J. Griffith and Dorothy S. Lund Fordham University School of Law and University of Southern California Gould School of Law Date Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2019	88
5.	The Central Role of Political Myth in Corporate Law Jonathan R. Macey Yale Law School Date Posted: 14 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2019	78
6.	Corporations Paul B. Miller Notre Dame Law School Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2019	76
7.	In-House Lawyers and Non-Executive Directors: A Discussion About Best Practice Richard Moorhead, Trevor Clark, Alan Brener, Paul Gilbert and Steven Vaughan Centre for Ethics and Law, Faculty of Laws, UCL London, University College London - Faculty of Laws, University College London - Faculty of Laws, LBC Wise Counsel and Faculty of Laws, University College London Date Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2019	71
8.	Deliberate Ignorance and the Law Eyal Zamir and Roi Yair Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem Date Posted: 25 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2019	70
9.	A Purpose-Based Theory of Corporate Law Asaf Raz University of Pennsylvania Law School Date Posted: 27 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2019	67
10.	Is the Constitution a Power of Attorney or a Corporate Charter? A Commentary on ''A Great Power of Attorney': Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution' by Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman John Mikhail Georgetown University Law Center Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2019	59

All Time Top Papers

As of: 02 Jan 1997 - 26 Aug 2019

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	36,145
2.	What Matters in Corporate Governance? Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School Date Posted: 21 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009	33,100
3.	Executive Compensation Kevin J. Murphy University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business Date Posted: 19 May 1999 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2001	19,611
4.	The History of Corporate Governance Brian R. Cheffins University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law Date Posted: 22 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 May 2013	16,093
5.	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	14,536
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	12,792
7.	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	12,067
8.	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	11,506
9.	Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Socially Expensive Anat R. Admati, Peter M. DeMarzo, Martin F. Hellwig and Paul C. Pfleiderer Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Stanford Graduate School of Business Date Posted: 04 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016	8,031
10.	Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School Date Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009	7,761