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The Top 10 Corporate/Securities Articles of 2007

The results via Leiter:

• Baker, Tom and Sean J. Griffith.  The Missing Monitor in Corporate Governance: The Directors’ & Officers’ Liability Insurer.  95 Geo. L.J. 1795-1842 (2007).


• Bebchuk, Lucian A.  The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise.  93 Va. L. Rev. 675-732 (2007).


• Choi, Stephen J. and Robert B. Thompson.  Securities Litigation and Its Lawyers:  Changes During the First Decade After the PSLRA.  106 Colum. L. Rev. 1489-1533 (2006).


• Coffee, John C., Jr.  Reforming the Securities Class Action:  An Essay on Deterrence and Its Implementation.  106 Colum. L. Rev. 1534-1586 (2006).


• Cox, James D. and Randall S. Thomas.  Does the Plaintiff Matter?  An Empirical Analysis of Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions.  106 Colum. L. Rev. 1587-1640 (2006).


• Eisenberg, Theodore and Geoffrey Miller.  Ex Ante Choice of Law and Forum:  An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Merger Agreements.  59 Vand. L. Rev. 1975-2013 (2006).


• Gordon, Jeffrey N.  The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005:  Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices.  59 Stan. L. Rev. 1465-1568 (2007).


• Kahan, Marcel and Edward B. Rock.  Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control.  155 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1021-1093 (2007).


• Langevoort, Donald C.  The Social Construction of Sarbanes-Oxley.  105 Mich. L. Rev. 1817-1855 (2007).


• Roe, Mark J.  Legal Origins, Politics, and Modern Stock Markets.  120 Harv. L. Rev. 460-527 (2006).


• Subramanian, Guhan.  Post-Siliconix Freeze-outs:  Theory and Evidence.  36 J. Legal Stud. 1-26 (2007).

There are a lot of really good articles on that list and congratulations to all those whose articles were selected.