2026 Douglas G. Baird: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	37	137	124	106	95	164	6610

Research.com Recognitions

1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Douglas G. Baird is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of arts and humanities, with a focus on subfields such as museology, language and linguistics, anthropology, and archaeology.

The main topics covered in their scholarly work include:

Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies
Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Eurasian Exchange Networks
Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Baird has contributed several recent papers, notably published in venues such as Heritage Turkey and Cambridge University Press eBooks. These publications include:

The Boncuklu project 2020: Boncuklu through four objects, 2020, Heritage Turkey
The Boncuklu project, 2023, Heritage Turkey
Boncuklu and Pınarbaşı: from forager to farmer in central Anatolia, 2022, Heritage Turkey
Boncuklu 2021, 2021, Heritage Turkey
Index, 2022, Cambridge University Press eBooks

Their frequent coauthors are:

Andrew Fairbairn
Gökhan Mustafaoğlu
Gökhan Mustafağolu
Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman

Baird's work is mainly published in the following venues:

Heritage Turkey
SSRN Electronic Journal
Cambridge University Press eBooks
International Insolvency Review

They have also published a book with Cambridge University Press titled The Unwritten Law of Corporate Reorganizations (2022).

In recognition of their professional contributions, Douglas G. Baird was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Best Publications

The End of Bankruptcy

Douglas G. Baird;Robert K. Rasmussen

628
Citations
Private Debt and the Missing Lever of Corporate Governance

Douglas G. Baird;Robert K. Rasmussen

551
Citations
Game theory and the law

Douglas G. Baird;Peter Newman

436
Citations
The Uneasy Case for Corporate Reorganizations

Douglas G. Baird

381
Citations
The Law and Economics of Contract Damages

Douglas G. Baird

362
Citations
The Hidden Virtues of Chapter 11: An Overview of the Law and Economics of Financially Distressed Firms

Douglas G. Baird

350
Citations
Revisiting Auctions in Chapter 11

Douglas G. Baird

284
Citations
Bankruptcy Decision Making

Douglas G. Baird;Edward R. Morrison

214
Citations
Optimal Timing and Legal Decisionmaking: The Case of the Liquidation Decision in Bankruptcy

Edward Morrison;Douglas G. Baird

210
Citations
Does Bogart Still Get Scale? Rights of Publicity in the Digital Age

Douglas G. Baird

207
Citations
Does Bogart Still Get Scale? Rights of Publicity in the Digital Age

Douglas G. Baird

202
Citations
Control Rights, Priority Rights, and the Conceptual Foundations of Corporate Reorganizations

Douglas G. Baird;Robert K. Rasmussen

178
Citations
Bankruptcy Step Zero

Douglas G. Baird;Anthony J. Casey

148
Citations
Serial Entrepreneurs and Small Business Bankruptcies

Douglas G. Baird;Edward R. Morrison

139
Citations
Private Debt and the Missing Lever of Corporate Governance

Douglas G. Baird;Robert K. Rasmussen

134
Citations
Absolute Priority, Valuation Uncertainty, and the Reorganization Bargain

Douglas G. Baird;Donald S. Bernstein

106
Citations
A Simple Noncooperative Bargaining Model of Corporate Reorganizations

Douglas G. Baird;Randal C. Picker

102
Citations
The Prime Directive

Robert K. Rasmussen;Douglas G. Baird

97
Citations
The initiation problem in bankruptcy

Douglas G. Baird

81
Citations
Property, Natural Monopoly, and the Uneasy Legacy of INS v. AP

Douglas G. Baird

75
Citations
Information, Uncertainty, and the Transfer of Property

Douglas G. Baird;Thomas H. Jackson

69
Citations
Common Law Intellectual Property and the Legacy of International News Service v. Associated Press

Douglas G. Baird

66
Citations
Corporate Reorganizations and the Treatment of Diverse Ownership Interests: A Comment on Adequate Protection of Secured Creditors in Bankruptcy

Douglas G. Baird;Thomas H. Jackson

65
Citations
Bankruptcy's Uncontested Axioms

Douglas G. Baird

62
Citations
Bargaining after the Fall and the Contours of the Absolute Priority Rule

Douglas G. Baird;Thomas H. Jackson

55
Citations
A World Without Bankruptcy

Douglas G. Baird

30
Citations
Chapter 11 at Twilight

Douglas G. Baird;Robert K. Rasmussen

28
Citations
Substantive Consolidation Today

Douglas G. Baird

28
Citations
The elements of bankruptcy

Douglas G. Baird

27
Citations
Fraudulent Conveyance Law and Its Proper Domain

Douglas G. Baird;Thomas H. Jackson

21
Citations
Boyd's Legacy and Blackstone's Ghost

Douglas G. Baird;Robert K. Rasmussen

5
Citations
Boyd's Legacy and Blackstone's Ghost

Robert K. Rasmussen;Douglas G. Baird

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Randal C. Picker University of Chicago

Richard A. Epstein New York University

Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University

G. Mitu Gulati University of Virginia

External Links

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