John C. Coffee
#16,596
Most Influential Person Now
American legal scholar
John C. Coffee's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
John C. Coffeelaw Degrees
Law
#545
World Rank
#743
Historical Rank
#326
USA Rank
Corporate Law
#7
World Rank
#7
Historical Rank
#3
USA Rank
International Law
#684
World Rank
#845
Historical Rank
#313
USA Rank
Download Badge
Law
Why Is John C. Coffee Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John C. Coffee Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law and director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School. Education Coffee grew up in Manhasset, New York. He is of Irish descent. He attended Manhasset High School where he was in the National Honor Society. After graduation, he attended Amherst College with his high school friend and classmate, actor Ken Howard. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1966, his LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1969 and later an LL.M. from New York University School of Law.
John C. Coffee's Published Works
Published Works
- The Future as History: The Prospects for Global Convergence in Corporate Governance and its Implications (1999) (1375)
- Racing Towards the Top?: The Impact of Cross-Listings and Stock Market Competition on International Corporate Governance (2002) (1004)
- Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement (2007) (326)
- A Theory of Corporate Scandals: Why the U.S. And Europe Differ (2005) (322)
- Hail Britannia?: Institutional Investor Behavior Under Limited Regulation (1994) (317)
- Understanding Enron: It's About the Gatekeepers, Stupid (2002) (305)
- Understanding Enron: It's About the Gatekeepers, Stupid (2002) (305)
- Privatization and Corporate Governance: The Lessons from Securities Market Failure (1999) (207)
- What Caused Enron?: A Capsule Social and Economic History of the 1990's (2003) (181)
- Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance (2006) (175)
- Gatekeeper Failure and Reform: The Challenge of Fashioning Relevant Reforms (2003) (162)
- The Wolf at the Door: The Impact of Hedge Fund Activism on Corporate Governance (2015) (157)
- Knights, Raiders, and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover (1990) (144)
- The Political Economy of Dodd-Frank: Why Financial Reform Tends to be Frustrated and Systemic Risk Perpetuated (2012) (94)
- Do Norms Matter?: A Cross-Country Examination of the Private Benefits of Control (2001) (89)
- The Rise of Dispersed Ownership: The Role of Law in the Separation of Ownership and Control (2000) (89)
- The Acquiescent Gatekeeper: Reputational Intermediaries, Auditor Independence and the Governance of Accounting (2001) (78)
- Ratings Reform: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (2010) (71)
- Redesigning the SEC: Does the Treasury Have a Better Idea? (2008) (70)
- Convergence and its Critics: What are the Preconditions to the Separation of Ownership and Control? (2000) (68)
- What Went Wrong? An Initial Inquiry Into the Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis (2009) (64)
- The Attorney as Gatekeeper: An Agenda for the Sec (2003) (58)
- The Attorney as Gatekeeper: An Agenda for the Sec (2003) (58)
- Business Organization and Finance: Legal and Economic Principles (1986) (55)
- The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (2012) (54)
- Bail-Ins Versus Bail-Outs: Using Contingent Capital to Mitigate Systemic Risk (2010) (47)
- The Impact of Hedge Fund Activism: Evidence and Implications (2014) (37)
- Bondholder Coercion: The Problem of Constrained Choice in Debt Tender Offers and Recapitalizations (1991) (35)
- Class Action Accountability: Reconciling Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Representative Litigation (2000) (34)
- Competition Among Securities Markets: A Path Dependent Perspective (2002) (34)
- The Survival of the Derivative Suit: An Evaluation and a Proposal for Legislative Reform (1981) (34)
- Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (1992) (30)
- Extraterritorial Financial Regulation: Why E.T. Can't Come Home (2014) (24)
- The Rise of Rise of Dispersed Ownnership: The Roles of Law and the State in the Separation of Ownership and Control. (Article Abstracts) (2001) (23)
- Preserving the Corporate Superego in a Time of Activism: An Essay on Ethics and Economics (2016) (20)
- Racing Towards The Top (2002) (20)
- Why do auditors fail? What might work? What won’t?† (2019) (17)
- Dispersed Ownership: The Theories, the Evidence, and the Enduring Tension Between 'Lumpers' and 'Splitters' (2010) (15)
- Litigation Governance: Taking Accountability Seriously (2010) (15)
- Transfers of Control and the Quest for Efficiency: Can Delaware Law Encourage Efficient Transactions While Chilling Inefficient Ones (1999) (15)
- Activist Directors and Agency Costs: What Happens When an Activist Director Goes on the Board? (2018) (13)
- Re-Engineering Corporate Disclosure: The Coming Debate Over Company Registration (1995) (12)
- The Globalization of Entrepreneurial Litigation: Law, Culture, and Incentives (2017) (11)
- Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall, and Future (2015) (11)
- The Future of Disclosure: ESG, Common Ownership, and Systematic Risk (2020) (11)
- Accountability and Competition in Securities Class Actions: Why 'Exit' Works Better than 'Voice' (2008) (9)
- Enhancing Investor Protection and the Regulation of Securities Markets (2009) (9)
- Causation by Presumption? Why the Supreme Court Should Reject Phantom Losses and Reverse Broudo (2005) (8)
- Modern Mail Fraud: The Restoration of the Public/private Distinction (1998) (7)
- Mapping the Future of Insider Trading Law: Of Boundaries, Gaps, and Strategies (2013) (7)
- INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES: (1996) (6)
- The Agency Costs of Activism: Information Leakage, Thwarted Majorities, and the Public Morality (2017) (6)
- ““Are We Really Getting Tough on White Collar Crime?”” Hearing Before Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs Senate Judiciary Committee (July 10, 2002) (2003) (4)
- "Carrot and Stick" Sentencing: Structuring Incentives for Organizational Defendants (1990) (3)
- Privacy Versus Parens Patriae the Role of Police Records in the Sentencing and Surveillance of Juveniles (1972) (3)
- "Loser Pays": The Latest Installment in the Battle-Scarred, Cliff-Hanging Survival of the Rule 10b-5 Class Action (2015) (3)
- The Direction Of Corporate Law: The Scholars' Perspective (2000) (3)
- Why Do Auditors Fail? What Might Work? What Won't? (2019) (2)
- How Should the E.U. Respond to Brexit and Trump?: The Lessons from Trade Wars (2017) (2)
- 13. The Impact of Cross-Listings and Stock Market Competition on International Corporate Governance (2003) (2)
- What's Next: The Future of RICO (1990) (2)
- Lost : The Blurring of the Criminal and Civil Law Models – And What Can be Done About It (2019) (1)
- The New Class Action Landscape: Trends and Developments in Class Certification and Related Topics (2012) (1)
- Litigation and Corporate Governance: An Essay on Steering Between Scylla and Charybdis (2021) (1)
- INTERIM FINANCIAL RESULTS (1978) (0)
- Figure and Table Credits (2015) (0)
- Recent Books in Regulation (2020) (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)
- Federal Securities Laws: Selected Statutes, Rules and Forms (1996) (0)
- Privatization and Corporate Governance: (0)
- Fee-Shifting Bylaw and Charter Provisions: Can They Apply in Federal Court? -- The Case for Preemption (2014) (0)
- 11. Conclusion: Toward a Semiprivate Attorney General (2015) (0)
- 1. Litigation and Democracy (2015) (0)
- Law Professor Comment Letter on Harmonization of Private Offering Rules (2019) (0)
- 3 The Derivative Action (2015) (0)
- 2. The Origins of Entrepreneurial Litigation (2015) (0)
- 5. Merger and Acquisition Class Actions: Litigation on Steroids (2015) (0)
- The retreat from systemic risk regulation: what explains it? (and why it was predictable) (2018) (0)
- Nosedive: Boeing and the Corruption of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (2022) (0)
- Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915 (2015) (0)
- Slack V. Pirani: Brief for Amici Curiae Law and Business Professors in Support of Respondent (2023) (0)
- Brief of Corporate Law Professors as Amici Curie in Support of Respondents (2015) (0)
- 18. The Regulatory Sine Curve: What Explains the Retreat from Systemic Risk Regulation (and Why It Was Predictable) (2019) (0)
- 9. Public Enforcement and the Private Attorney General (2015) (0)
- Petition for Rulemaking on Short and Distort (2020) (0)
- PART I. ENTREPRENEURIAL LITIGATION: A UNIQUELY AMERICAN CONCEPT (2015) (0)
- PART IV. THE FUTURE (2015) (0)
- THE CHANGED WORLD OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE A Conference for Corporate Directors and Their Advisors (2004) (0)
- 19. Roundtable: It’s Not Too Much or Too Little Regulation; It’s Getting It Right (2019) (0)
- Class Actions in the Era of Trump: Trends and Developments in Class Certification and Related Issues (2017) (0)
- Crime and the Corporation: Making the Punishment Fit the Corporation (2021) (0)
- Participants (1976) (0)
- 7. A Prelude to Class Action Reform (2015) (0)
- 4. The Emergence of the Class Action (2015) (0)
- Session III: Securities Law in Twenty‐First Century America: A Conversation with Sec Commissioner Robert Jackson (2019) (0)
- 6. The Mass Tort Class Action: Quick Rise, Faster Fall (2015) (0)
- Global Settlements: Promise and Peril (2019) (0)
- 8. The Needed Reforms (2015) (0)
- The Coming Shift in Shareholder Activism: From "Firm-Specific" to "Systematic Risk" Proxy Campaigns (and How to Enable Them) (2021) (0)
- 10 The Globalization of the Class Action: Can the Private Attorney General Be Exported? (2015) (0)
- Discover PLUS Research Topics - JOBS Act (2013) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About John C. Coffee
What Schools Are Affiliated With John C. Coffee?
John C. Coffee is affiliated with the following schools: