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World Ranking
102
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Henry Hansmann is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has conducted research primarily within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting. The subfields covered in their work include Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, and Law.

The research topics frequently explored by Hansmann encompass:

  • Corporate Insolvency and Governance
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management
  • Legal principles and applications

Several recent papers authored by Henry Hansmann include:

  • The Governance of Foundation-Owned Firms, 2020, The Journal of Legal Analysis
  • The Ownership and Governance of Mutual Insurance Companies, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition, Hansmann co-authored a paper titled Between Public and Private Enterprise: The Role and Structure of Special-Purpose Governments in 2022, published in SSRN Electronic Journal, with co-author C. G. Clarke.

The primary publication venues where Hansmann's work appears include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Legal Analysis

Frequent collaborators of Henry Hansmann are:

  • Richard Squire
  • Steen Thomsen
  • Reinier Kraakman
  • Richard H. Squire
  • C. G. Clarke

Henry Hansmann has been recognized by several academic honors including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1985

Best Publications

  • The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise

    Henry B Hansmann

  • The ownership of enterprise

    Henry Hansmann

  • The End Of History For Corporate Law

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman

  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach

    Reinier Kraakman;John Armour;Paul Davies;Luca Enriques

  • The Essential Role of Organizational Law

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman

  • Toward Unlimited Shareholder Liability for Corporate Torts

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman

  • The End of History for Corporate Law

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman

  • Law and the rise of the firm

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier H. Kraakman;Richard Squire

  • The Rationale for Exempting Nonprofit Organizations from Corporate Income Taxation

    Henry Hansmann

  • Reforming Nonprofit Corporation Law

    Henry B. Hansmann

  • When Does Worker Ownership Work? ESOPs, Law Firms, Codetermination, and Economic Democracy

    Henry Hansmann

  • Nonprofit Enterprise in the Performing Arts

    Henry Hansmann

  • The Functions of Trust Law: a Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

    Henry Hansmann;Ugo Mattei

  • Authors' and Artists' Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

    Henry Hansmann;Marina Santilli

  • Property, Contract, and Verification: The Numerus Clausus Problem and the Divisibility of Rights

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman

  • The economics and ethics of markets for human organs

    H. Hansmann

  • The economics and ethics of markets for human organs.

    Henry Hansmann

  • The Organization of Insurance Companies: Mutual versus Stock

    Henry Hansmann

  • Convergence and persistence in corporate governance

    Jeffrey N. Gordon;Mark J. Roe

  • Population Heterogeneity and the Sociogenesis of Homicide

    Henry B. Hansmann;John M. Quigley

  • What is corporate law

    J Armour;H Hansmann;RH Kraakman;M Pargendler

  • THE EFFECT OF TAX EXEMPTION AND OTHER FACTORS ON THE MARKET SHARE OF NONPROFIT VERSUS FOR-PROFIT FIRMS

    Henry Hansmann

  • Agency Problems and Legal Strategies

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman

  • THE INCORPORATION CHOICES OF IPO FIRMS

    Robert Daines;Jennifer Arlen;Ian Ayres;Stephen Gillers

  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law

    R. Kraakman;J. Armour;P. Davies;Luca Enriques

  • Condominium and Cooperative Housing: Transactional Efficiency, Tax Subsidies, and Tenure Choice

    Henry Hansmann

  • Organizational Law as Asset Partitioning

    Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman

  • 9. The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services

    Henry Hansmann

  • The Basic Governance Structure: Minority Shareholders and Non-Shareholder Constituencies

    Luca Enriques;Henry Hansmann;Reinier Kraakman;Mariana Pargendler

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinier Kraakman
Reinier Kraakman Harvard University
John Armour
John Armour University of Oxford
Luca Enriques
Luca Enriques Bocconi University
Ronald J. Gilson
Ronald J. Gilson Columbia University
Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Lucian Arye Bebchuk Harvard University
Mark McClellan
Mark McClellan Duke University
Daniel P. Kessler
Daniel P. Kessler Stanford University
Bernard S. Black
Bernard S. Black Northwestern University
Mark J. Roe
Mark J. Roe Harvard University
Markus Roth
Markus Roth Technical University of Darmstadt

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