Jeffrey N. Gordon
Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law
Columbia Law Schoolrs

 

Jeffrey N. Gordon is the Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Economic Studies at Columbia Law School and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1

He writes extensively on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and comparative corporate governance. He teaches various courses and seminars in the corporate and regulatory areas, including mergers and acquisitions.

Recent publications on corporate governance include: Proxy Contests in an Era of Increasing Shareholder Power: Forget Issuer Proxy Access and Focus on E-Proxy, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 475 (2008), and The Rise of Independent Directors in the US 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices, 59 Stan. L. Rev. 1465 (2007). Recent publications on executive compensation are: Executive Compensation: If There is a Problem, What’s the Remedy? The Case for “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” 30 J. Corp. L. 675 (2005), and “Say on Pay”: Cautionary Notes on the UK Experience and the Case for Shareholder Opt-in, 46 Harv. J. on Legisl. 323 (2009). His current project is a paper on the regulation of systemic risk, Avoiding Eight-Alarm Fires in the Political Economy of Systemic Risk Management.

Prof. Gordon graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School, clerked for a federal appeals court judge, practiced at a New York law firm, and worked in the General Counsel’s office of the U.S. Treasury. He began his academic career at NYU in 1982 and moved to Columbia in 1988. While at Treasury, he worked on the Chrysler Corporation loan guarantee program and financial regulation.