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Overview

Stephen M. Bainbridge is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Within these broad areas, their subfields of study include Marketing, Law, Accounting, Political Science and International Relations, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics of Bainbridge's work focus on areas such as Securities Regulation and Market Practices, Legal principles and applications, Property Rights and Legal Doctrine, Business Law and Ethics, Legal Systems and Judicial Processes, Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, and Corporate Insolvency and Governance.

Their recent papers reflect varied interests within these domains. Notable publications include:

  •  DExit Drivers: Is Delaware's Dominance Threatened? (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • A Course Correction for Controlling Shareholder Transactions (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Long-Term Bias and Director Primacy (2021, Columbia Business Law Review)
  • Christianity and Corporate Purpose (2021, Cambridge University Press eBooks)
  • Index (2023, Cambridge University Press eBooks)

Bainbridge has contributed to both journal articles and book publications. They have published a book titled The Profit Motive in 2023 through Cambridge University Press.

Frequent publication venues for Bainbridge include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Columbia Business Law Review

Throughout their academic career, Bainbridge has collaborated with various coauthors, including S. Keller, John W. Olson, David Schellhase, Marc Sonnenfeld, and Robert K. Anderson.

Best Publications

  • Director Primacy: the Means and Ends of Corporate Governance

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Why a Board? Group Decisionmaking in Corporate Governance

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • The Business Judgment Rule as Abstention Doctrine

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • The new corporate governance in theory and practice

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Abolishing Veil Piercing

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Community and Statism: A Conservative Contractarian Critique of Progressive Corporate Law Scholarship

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Interpreting Nonshareholder Constituency Statutes

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Corporation Law and Economics

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • How Do Judges Maximize? (The Same Way Everybody Else Does - Boundedly): Rules of Thumb in Securities Fraud Opinions

    Mitu Gulati;Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Why a Board? Group Decisionmaking in Corporate Governance

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • BOARDS-R-US: RECONCEPTUALIZING CORPORATE BOARDS

    Stephen M. Bainbridge;M. Todd Henderson

  • In Defense Of The Shareholder WealthMaximization Norm: A Reply To ProfessorGreen

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  • Boards-R-Us: Reconceptualizing Corporate Boards

    Stephen M. Bainbridge;M. Todd Henderson

  • The Case for Limited Shareholder Voting Rights

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Director Primacy and Shareholder Disempowerment

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Corporate Governance in Post-Privatized Slovenia

    Rado Bohinc;Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Director Primacy: The Means and Ends of Corporate Governance

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Insider Trading: An Overview

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Securities law : insider trading

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Caremark and Enterprise Risk Management

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Shareholder Activism and Institutional Investors

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • The Law and Economics of Insider Trading: A Comprehensive Primer

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Dodd-Frank: Quack Federal Corporate Governance Round Ii

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Participatory Management within a Theory of the Firm

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Exclusive Merger Agreements and Lock-Ups in Negotiated Corporate Acquisitions

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • The Creeping Federalization of Corporate Law

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • A Critique of the NYSE's Director Independence Listing Standards

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • The Insider Trading Prohibition: A Legal and Economic Enigma

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Unocal at 20: Director Primacy in Corporate Takeovers

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Is 'Say on Pay' Justified?

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • In Defense of the Shareholder Wealth Maximization Norm

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • Limited Liability: A Legal and Economic Analysis

    Stephen Bainbridge;M. Todd Henderson

  • Privately Ordered Participatory Management: An Organizational Failures Analysis

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • The Board of Directors as Nexus of Contracts: A Critique of Gulati, Klein & Zolt's 'Connected Contracts' Model

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

  • The parable of the talents

    Stephen M. Bainbridge

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