William Wilson Bratton

Publications

• A History of Corporate Law Federalism in the Twentieth Century
  47 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 781 (2024) · Seattle University Law Review · 2024
• Shareholder Primacy versus Shareholder Accountability
  47 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 405 (2024) · Seattle University Law Review · 2024
• Team Production Revisited
  74 VAND. L. REV. 1539 (2021) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2021
• Corporate Law and the Myth of Efficient Market Control
  105 CORNELL L. REV. 675 (2020) · Cornell Law Review · 2020

• Collected Lectures and Talks on Corporate Law, Legal Theory, History, Finance, and Governance
  42 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 755 (2019) · Seattle University Law Review · 2019
• The Modern Corporation and Private Property Revisited: Gardiner Means and the Administered Price
  42 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 591 (2019) · Seattle University Law Review · 2019
• The Separation of Corporate Law and Social Welfare
  74 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 767 (2016) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2016
• Shareholders and Social Welfare
  36 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 489 (2013) · Seattle University Law Review · 2013
• Lyondell: A Note of Approbation
  55 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 561 (2011) · NYLS Law Review · 2011
• At the Conjunction of Love and Money: Comment on Julie A. Nelson, Does Profit-Seeking Rule Out Love? Evidence (or Not) from Economics and Law
  35 WASH. U. J. L. & POL'Y 109 (2011) · Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2011
• Tracking Berle’s Footsteps: The Trail of <em>The Modern Corporation</em>’s Last Chapter
  33 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 849 (2010) · Seattle University Law Review · 2010

• Private Equity's Three Lessons for Agency Theory
  3 BROOK. J. CORP. FIN. & COM. L. (2008) · Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law · 2008
• Welfare, Dialectic, and Mediation in Corporate Law
  2 BERKELEY BUS. L.J. 59 (2005) · Berkeley Business Law Journal · 2005
• The Academic Tournament over Executive Compensation
  93 CAL. L. REV. 1557 (2005) · California Law Review · 2005
• Sovereign Debt Reform and the Best Interest of Creditors
  57 VAND. L. REV. (2004) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2004
• Shareholder Value and Auditor Independence
  53 DUKE L.J. 439 (2003) · Duke Law Journal · 2003
• Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley and Accounting: Rules Versus Principles Versus Rents
  48 VILL. L. REV. 1023 (2003) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 2003
• Venture Capital on the Downside: Preferred Stock and Corporate Control
  100 MICH. L. REV. 891 (2002) · Michigan Law Review · 2002
• Two Observations on Holocaust Claims
  24 UC L. SF INT'L L. REV. 321 (2001) · UC Law SF International Law Review · 2001

• Deadweight Costs and Intrinsic Wrongs of Nativism: Economics Freedom and Legal Suppression of Spanish
  84 CORNELL L. REV. 595 (1999) · Cornell Law Review · 1999
• Law and Economics of English Only
  53 U. MIAMI L. REV. 973 (1999) · University of Miami Law Review · 1999
• Dividends, Noncontractibility, and Corporate Law
  19 CARDOZO L. REV. 409 (1997) · Cardozo Law Review · 1997
• An Inquiry into the Efficiency of the Limited Liability Company: Of Theory of the Firm and Regulatory Competition
  54 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 629 (1997) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 1997
• Regulatory Competiton, Regulatory Capture, and Corporate Self-Regulation
  73 N. C. L. REV. 1861 (1995) · North Carolina Law Review · 1995
• Confronting The Ethical Case Against The Ethical Case For Constituency Rights
  50 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1449 (1993) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 1993

• The Preemption Doctrine: Shifting Perspectives on Federalism and the Burger Court
  75 COLUM. L. REV. 623 (1975) · Columbia Law Review · 1975