Mark J. Roe

Harvard University

Mark J. Roe is a professor at Harvard Law School , where he teaches corporate law and corporate bankruptcy. He wrote Strong Managers, Weak Owners : The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton, 1994), Political Determinants of Corporate Governance (:place Oxford, 2003), and Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization (2d edition, Foundation Press, 2007), the first two of which have been published in Italian. Recent academic articles include the following, some written with co-authors : Finance and Politics : A Review Essay, Journal of Economic Literature 47 : 781 (2009), Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws : Resource-Based Evidence, Journal of Financial Economics 93 : 207 (2009), Delaware and Washington in American Corporate Lawmaking, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 34 : 1 (2009), Legal Origins and Modern Stock Markets, Harvard Law Review 120 : 460 (2006), Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy, Michigan Law Review 108 : 727 (2010), and Bankruptcy’s Financial Crisis Accelerator : The Role of Derivatives Players’ Super-Priorities, Stanford Law Review (forthcoming).