Henry B. Hansmann
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henry B. Hansmann is an American scholar of law and economics; he is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School. Hansmann is noted for his scholarship on the economics of organizational ownership and design and is credited with founding the modern study of nonprofit organizations. He is known for his 1980 article "The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise" which has had a "seminal influence on analyses of the law and economics of the nonprofit sector."
Henry B. Hansmann's Published Works
Published Works
- The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise (1980) (2297)
- The Ownership of Enterprise (1996) (2049)
- The End of History for Corporate Law (2000) (1170)
- Ownership of the Firm (1998) (455)
- The Essential Role of Organizational Law (2000) (325)
- Toward Unlimited Shareholder Liability for Corporate Torts (1991) (314)
- Law and the Rise of the Firm (2006) (273)
- Nonprofit Enterprise in the Performing Arts (1981) (267)
- The Anatomy of Corporate Law (2009) (215)
- Why Do Universities Have Endowments? (1990) (186)
- The Organization of Insurance Companies: Mutual versus Stock (1985) (164)
- The economics and ethics of markets for human organs. (1989) (146)
- Population Heterogeneity and the Sociogenesis of Homicide (1982) (141)
- When Does Worker Ownership Work? ESOPs, Law Firms, Codetermination, and Economic Democracy (1990) (141)
- Property, Contract, and Verification: The Numerus Clausus Problem and the Divisibility of Rights (2002) (139)
- The Rationale for Exempting Nonprofit Organizations from Corporate Income Taxation (1981) (137)
- Agency Problems and Legal Strategies (2004) (116)
- What is Corporate Law? (2004) (77)
- THE INCORPORATION CHOICES OF IPO FIRMS (2002) (75)
- Reforming Nonprofit Corporation Law (1981) (75)
- Globalizing Commercial Litigation (2008) (74)
- THE EFFECT OF TAX EXEMPTION AND OTHER FACTORS ON THE MARKET SHARE OF NONPROFIT VERSUS FOR-PROFIT FIRMS (1987) (70)
- Authors' and Artists' Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis (1997) (68)
- The Functions of Trust Law: a Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis (1998) (64)
- The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services (1996) (63)
- Ownership Form and Trapped Capital in the Hospital Industry (2002) (59)
- Condominium and Cooperative Housing: Transactional Efficiency, Tax Subsidies, and Tenure Choice (1991) (51)
- The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption (2013) (48)
- The Basic Governance Structure: Minority Shareholders and Non-Shareholder Constituencies (2017) (44)
- Organizational law as asset partitioning (2000) (43)
- A Theory of Status Organizations (1986) (40)
- Corporation and Contract (2006) (40)
- Ownership and Organizational Form (2012) (38)
- Higher Education as an Associative Good (1999) (37)
- The Role of Trust in Nonprofit Enterprise (2003) (37)
- Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement (2009) (35)
- The Basic Governance Structure: The Interests of Shareholders as a Class (2017) (35)
- Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance: The end of history for corporate law (2004) (32)
- All Firms are Cooperatives – And so are Governments (2014) (30)
- Unfair Competition and the Unrelated Business Income Tax (1989) (29)
- The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective (2005) (29)
- The Evolving Economic Structure of Higher Education (2012) (26)
- Hands-Tying Contracts: Book Publishing, Venture Capital Financing, and Secured Debt (1992) (24)
- Worker Participation and Corporate Governance (1993) (23)
- Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S., and the EU (2010) (23)
- Managerial Distance and Virtual Ownership: The Governance of Industrial Foundations (2013) (23)
- Legal Entities as Transferable Bundles of Contracts (2012) (20)
- Royalties for Artists versus Royalties for Authors and Composers (2001) (18)
- Reflections on the End of History for Corporate Law (2011) (18)
- Do the Capital Markets Compel Limited Liability? A Response to Professor Grundfest (1992) (16)
- Essential Elements of Corporate Law (2009) (16)
- Foundations of Corporate Law (2017) (15)
- UNCERTAINTY , CHAOS , AND THE TORTS PROCESS : AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LEGAL FORM (2012) (15)
- Virtual Ownership and Managerial Distance: The Governance of Industrial Foundations (2012) (15)
- The Essential Elements of Corporate Law: What is Corporate Law? (2009) (14)
- The Evolving Law of Nonprofit Organizations: Do Current Trends Make Good Policy (1989) (12)
- How Close Is the End of History (2006) (10)
- A new view of shareholder voting in the nineteenth century: evidence from Brazil, England and France (2013) (9)
- The Performance of Foundation-Owned Companies (2013) (9)
- A Procedural Focus on Unlimited Shareholder Liability (1992) (9)
- Trust Law in the United States. A Basic Study of Its Special Contribution (1998) (8)
- The Current State of Law-and- Economics Scholarship (1983) (8)
- A nexus of contracts theory of legal entities (2015) (8)
- COMMITTEE ON DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING PETITION FOR RULEMAKING August 3 (2009) (7)
- Firm Ownership and Organizational Form (2008) (7)
- LEGAL ENTITIES, ASSET PARTITIONING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS (2002) (7)
- Consumer Perceptions of Nonprofit Enterprise: Reply (1981) (6)
- External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries (2016) (6)
- The Governance of Foundation-Owned Firms (2018) (5)
- 2.3. The Economic Role of Commercial Nonprofits: The Evolution of the U.S. Savings Bank Industry (1990) (5)
- A Global Market for Judicial Services (2007) (5)
- Comparative Corporate Governance of Non-Profit Organizations: The economics of nonprofit organizations (2010) (4)
- Employee Ownership Of Firms (1998) (4)
- Incomplete Organizations: Legal Entities and Asset Partitioning in Roman Commerce (2014) (3)
- The Coase Proposition, Information Constraints, and Long-Run Equilibrium: Comment (1977) (3)
- Firm Ownership: The Legacy of Grossman and Hart (2011) (3)
- Extraterritorial Courts for Corporate Law (2005) (2)
- Law and Economics Organizational law as asset partitioning (2000) (2)
- Nonprofit Organizations in Perspective (2000) (2)
- Property, Contract, and Verifiability: Understanding the Law's Restrictions on Divided Rights (2001) (2)
- The economics and ethics of markets for human organs (1990) (2)
- The Limited Future of Unlimited Liability: A Capital Markets Perspective (2020) (2)
- Piggyback Jurisdiction in the Proposed Federal Criminal Code (1972) (1)
- The economic approach to law: P. Burrows and C. Veljanovski, London: Butterworths, 1981. 343 pp (1983) (1)
- The foundations of the “public organisation”: governance failure and the problem of external effects (2020) (1)
- The Contractualization of Organizational Law (2010) (1)
- What Determines Firm Boundaries in Biotech (1996) (1)
- Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Political Legacies of the Islamic Waqf (2013) (1)
- Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915 (2015) (0)
- CENTER FOR LAW , ECONOMICS , AND BUSINESS AGENCY PROBLEMS , LEGAL STRAGEGIES AND ENFORCEMENT (2009) (0)
- Legal Entities as Transferable Bundles of Contracts1 (2012) (0)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel A Business Trust for Partnerships? Early Conceptions of Company-Related Assets in Legal Literature, and Antwerp Forensic and Commercial Practice (Later Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Century) (2014) (0)
- Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 22 Corporate Law Professors, Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et aL, No. 16-1466 (2017) (0)
- ' AND ARTISTS ' MORAL RIGHTS : A COMPARATIVE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (2007) (0)
- Taxation of Endowments (2014) (0)
- RESPONSE TO REVIEW ESSAY OF "THE OWNERSHIP OF ENTERPRISE" Nonprofit Organizations in Perspective (2000) (0)
- Review (1999) (0)
- OWNERSHIP FORM AND CAPACITY CHOICE IN THE HOSPITAL INDUSTRY (2002) (0)
- Brief of Corporate Law Professors as Amici Curie in Support of Respondents (2015) (0)
- Organizations as Internal Capital Markets (2002) (0)
- Assessing Access-to-Justice Outreach Strategies: Comment (2018) (0)
- JEL Codes : D 23 , G 32 , G 33 , K 22 , L 22 , N 23 Law and the Rise of the Firm (2013) (0)
- Incomplete Organizations (2020) (0)
- Ownership and Organizational Forms: Nonprofit Firms (2021) (0)
- The New Corporate Web: Tailored Entity Partitions and Creditors' Selective Enforcement (2020) (0)
- The Economic and Ethics of Market for Human Organs (1989) (0)
- How To Eat an Elephant: Corporate Group Structure of Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Orderly Liquidation Authority, and Single Point of Entry Resolution (2020) (0)
- The Ownership and Governance of Mutual Insurance Companies (2022) (0)
- What Determines Firm Boundaries in Biotech?: Comment (2017) (0)
- One Higher Education as an Associative Good (1999) (0)
- Between Public and Private Enterprise: The Role and Structure of Special-Purpose Governments (2022) (0)
- Review of P. Burrows and C. Veljanovski, The Economic Approach to Law (1983) (0)
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