Assaf Hamdani

Research

• Professor of Law, Oct. 2017 - Present

• TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

• Member, I-Core Empirical Legal Studies Research Center, 2013 - Present

• HEBREW UNIVERSITY

• Research Associate, 2009 – Present

• EUROPEAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE

PUBLIC ACTIVITIES

• Chairperson, Committee on Institutional Investors and Capital Markets, 2006-2007

• MINISTRY OF FINANCE, ISRAEL

• Commissioner, July 2008 – August 2009

• ISRAEL SECURITIES AUTHORITY (ISA)

• Academic Advisor, Committee on Institutional Investors' Investment in Bonds, 2009- 2010

• MINISTRY OF FINANCE, ISRAEL

• Member, Banking Affairs Advisory Committee, 2013- 2014

• BANK OF ISRAEL

• Member, Advisory Board, National Economic Council, 2012 - Present

• PRIME MINISTER OFFICE

VISITS AND PRIOR ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Professor of Corporate Law, 2011 – 2017

• HEBREW UNIVERSITY

• Visiting Professor, Fall 2017

• UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY LAW SCHOOL

• Visiting Professor, Fall 2016

• COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

• Visiting Professor, Fall 2015

• HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

• Visiting Professor, Fall 2011

• UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

• Visiting Professor, Fall 2007

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL

• Assistant Professor, 2004-2007

• BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL

Education:

• HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, S.J.D. 2003, LL.M. (waived) 1999
• HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM, LL.B., summa cum laude, 1995

PUBLICATIONS (ENGLISH)

• “Optimal Defaults for Corporate Law Evolution,” 96 NW. U. L. REV. 489-519 (2002) (with Lucian Bebchuk)
• “Vigorous Race or Leisurely Walk: Reconsidering the Debate on State Competition over Corporate Charters,” 112 YALE L. J. 553-615 (2002) (with Lucian Bebchuk)
• “Who’s Liable for Cyberwrongs?” 87 CORNELL L. REV. 901 - 957 (2002)
• “Gatekeeper Liability,” 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 53 – 121 (2003)
• "Optimal Liability for Libel,” CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY, Vol. 2(1), Article 6 (2003) (with Oren Bar-Gill)
• “The Class Defense,” 93 CAL. L. REV. 685-741 (2005) (with Alon Klement)
• "Federal Corporate Law: Lessons from History," 106 COLUM. L. REV. 1793–1838 (2006) (with Lucian Bebchuk)
• "Mens Rea and the Cost of Ignorance," 93 VA. L. REV. 415-457 (2007)
• "Rewarding Outside Directors," 105 MICH. L. REV. 1677-1711(2007) (with Reinier Kraakman)
• "The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards", 157 U. PA. L. REV. 1263-1317 (2009) (with Lucian Bebchuk)
• “Corporate Crime and Deterrence,” 61 STAN. L. REV. 271-310 (2009) (with Alon Klement) 3
• "Hidden Government Influence over Privatized Banks," 13 TH. INQ. L. 567 (2012) (with Ehud Kamar)
• "Institutional Investors as Minority Shareholders," 17 REV. FIN. 691 (2013) (with Yishay Yafeh)
• "Corporate Control and Idiosyncratic Vision," 125 YALE L.J. 560 (2016) (with Zohar Goshen)
• "Majority Control and Minority Protection,” in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK FOR CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE (JEFFREY GORDON & WOLF-GEORG RINGE EDS., 2015) (with Zohar Goshen)
• "Independent Directors and Controlling Shareholders", 165 U. PA. L. Rev. 1271 (2017) (with Lucian Bebchuk)
• "Incentive Fees and Competition in Pension Funds: Evidence from a Regulatory Experiment", 2 J. LAW FIN. & ACCT. 49-86 (2017) (with Eugene Kandel, Yishay Yafeh & Yevgeny Mugerman)
• “The Future of Shareholder Activism,” 99 BOSTON UNIVERSITY L. REV. 971 (2019) (with Sharon Hannes)
• “The New Titans of Wall Street: A Theoretical Framework for Passive Investors, U. Pa L. Rev. (forthcoming 2019); (with Jill E. Fisch & Steven Davidoff Solomon)

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

• Fulbright Fellowship, 1998-2000
• Byse Fellowship, Harvard Law School, 2001
• Alon Fellowship for Young Scientist, Israel, 2005-2007
• Handler Foundation Grant 2008
• Israel Science Foundation Grant for 2008-2010 (with Yishay Yafeh)
• Birk Prize for distinguished research in the field of law, 2009
• Zeltner Prize for Young Legal Scholar, 2010
• Heshin Prize for Young Legal Scholar, 2011
• Israel Science Foundation Grant for 2013-2015 (with Eugene Kandel & Yishay Yafeh)