Shareholder Rights Project
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The Shareholder Rights Project (SRP) was established by the Harvard Law School Program on Institutional Investors to contribute to education, discourse, and research related to efforts by institutional investors to improve corporate governance arrangements at publicly traded firms. During three academic years (2011-2012 through 2013-2014), the SRP operated a clinic that assisted institutional investors (several public pension funds and a foundation) in moving S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies towards annual elections. This work contributed to board declassification at about 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies. This website provides information about the work done by the SRP clinic during its three years of operation. Any communications with respect to the SRP clinic should be attributed solely to the SRP and not to Harvard Law School or Harvard University.

Print and Online Media Mentions

The Wall Street Journal, 12/26/2015

The Conglomerate, 5/12/2015

Davis Polk Briefing: Governance, 5/4/2015

SocialFunds.com, 3/21/2015

Reuters Breakingviews, 2/9/2015

AllAboutAlpha.com, 2/2/2015

Lexology, 1/29/2015

Pensions & Investments, 1/26/2015

Global Legal Post, 1/22/2015

ValueWalk, 1/20/2015

Corporate Counsel, 1/20/2015

Reuters, 1/15/2015

BloombergView, 1/16/2015

ValueWalk, 1/15/2015

Bloomberg, 1/15/2015

The Activist Investor Blog, 1/13/2015

Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities Regulation, 1/9/2015

BloombergView, 1/9/2015

BloombergView, 1/8/2015

M & A Law Prof Blog, 1/7/2015

Medium, 1/6/2015

ValueWalk, 1/6/2015

Law360, 1/5/2015

New York Times DealBook, 1/5/2015

ValueWalk, 12/18/2014

Business Law Prof Blog, 12/13/2014

CQ Roll Call, 12/12/2014

California Corporate & Securities Law Blog, 12/12/2014

The Wall Street Journal, 12/10/2014

Business Law Prof Blog, 5/21/2014

The Wall Street Journal, 5/11/2014

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/15/2014

Triangle Business Journal, 3/4/2014

The Activist Investor Blog, 12/10/2013

Legal Ethics Forum, 11/1/2013

The Wall Street Journal MoneyBeat, 10/4/2013

The Wall Street Journal CFO Report, 10/4/2013

New York Law Journal, 9/26/2013

MSN Money, 9/17/13

Legal Week, 9/13/13

Reuters Breakingviews, 8/16/2013

Law360, 8/7/2013

Haaretz, 7/17/2013 (In Hebrew)

Huffington Post, 7/7/2013

New York Times, 7/6/2013

Who’s Who Legal, 6/2013

Law360, 5/22/2013

New York Times DealBook, 4/16/2013

CorpGov.net, 4/10/2013

Law360, 4/9/2013

Thomson Reuters News & Insight, 4/9/2013

Wachtell Lipton, "A Reply to Professor Bebchuk," 4/9/2013

Forbes, 3/18/13

Business Standard (reprint from Breakingviews | Reuters), 3/17/13

The Wall Street Journal Deal Journal, 3/13/13

New York Times DealBook, 3/13/2013

Corporate Board Member, First Quarter 2013

Pensions & Investments, 1/21/2012

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/6/2013

Wachtell Lipton, "Pension Fund Advised by the Harvard Shareholder Rights Project Withdraws Declassification Proposal Amid Lawsuit Challenging Eligibility," 12/13/2012

Wachtell Lipton, "Harvard’s Shareholder Rights Project is Still Wrong," 11/30/2012

Thomson Reuters News & Insight, 11/29/2012

Pensions & Investments, 11/28/2012

CorpGov.net, 11/28/2012

Lawdragon, 11/18/2012

Directorship, 10/3/2012

The Wall Street Journal CFO Report, 9/5/2012

The Advocate for Institutional Investors, Summer 2012

Chicago Tribune, 8/10/2012

ValueWalk, 6/17/2012

ValueWalk, 6/14/2012

New York Times DealBook, 6/7/2012

Deadline New York, 6/5/2012

Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/1/2012

Corporate Counsel, 5/29/2012

Laurel Hill Advisory Group Newsletter, 5/18/2012

Lexington Herald-Leader, 5/11/2012

Bloomberg, 5/3/2012

Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/24/2012

Fuel Fix, 4/23/2012

Lawdragon, 4/23/2012

M & A Law Prof Blog, 4/20/2012

Lexington Herald-Leader, 4/20/2012

Economic Times, 4/19/2012

Litigation & Trial, 4/6/2012

The Law of Business, 4/6/2012

Thomson Reuters On the Case, 4/3/2012

Jeffrey Gordon, "Wachtell Lipton’s Critique of Harvard Law School," 4/3/2012

Chicago Tribune, 4/1/2012

Overlawyered, 4/1/2012

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3/30/2012

Corporate Counsel, 3/23/2012

The Network: Berkeley Law Business Blog, 3/22/12

ISS Governance Weekly, 3/22/2012

Wachtell Lipton, "Harvard’s Shareholder Rights Project is Wrong," 3/21/2012

New York Times DealBook, 3/21/2012

American Lawyer Daily, 3/21/2012

CFO Journal, 3/20/2012

New York Times DealBook, 3/20/2012