Bernard S. Black

Scholar whose research spans several fields. In the SSRN list of top law scholars, ranks fourth for lifetime downloads (139,000) and third for lifetime citations (2,300). Articles on empty voting, bidder overpayment, and self-enforcing corporate law, have set the stage for a robust public policy debate. Considered among the top scholars in four distinct fields: (i) business law defined broadly, including corporate law, securities law, corporate acquisitions and corporate governance; (ii) the interdisciplinary field known as law and finance; (iii) health care law and policy; and (iv) methods for empirical study of law. Principal drafter of new corporate laws for several post-Communist countries, including Russia, Vietnam and Mongolia. Founded the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies.