Yaron Nili

Forthcoming

Influence Without Control: Private Funds, Shareholder Engagement, and the New Law of Control, 52 Journal of Corporation Law (forthcoming) (with others)

Works in Progress

Common Ownership Directors (with others)
Declassifying Bylaws (with others)
Funding Nonprofit Diversity and Innovation (with Atinuke O. Adediran)
Hedge Fund Activism in Small Cap Companies (with Kobi Kastiel)
The Curious Case of Corporate Relational Contracts (with others)

Articles & Essays

Opting Out of Court? Reputation and Informal Norms in Private Equity, 79 Vanderbilt Law Review 505-576 (2026) (with Kobi Kastiel)
Peer Group Governance, 16 Harvard Business Law Review 169-236 (2026)
Interlocking Directorates in the United States, in Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law 288-309 (Florence Thépot & Anna Tzanaki eds., 2025)
Independence Reconceived, 2023 Columbia Business Law Review 589-674 (2024) (with Claire A. Hill)
Specialist Directors, 41 Yale Journal on Regulation 652-716 (2024) (with Roy Shapira)
The Rise of Private Equity Continuation Funds, 172 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1601-1666 (2024) (with Kobi J. Kastiel)
Side Letter Governance, 100 Washington University Law Review 907-994 (2023) (with Elisabeth de Fontenay)
The Lost Promise of Private Ordering, 109 Cornell Law Review 1-61 (2023) (with others)
Board Gatekeepers, 72 Emory Law Journal 91-161 (2022)
Horizontal Directors Revisited, 18 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 5-28 (2022)
The Corporate Governance Gap, 131 Yale Law Journal 782-860 (2022) (with Kobi Kastiel)
Virtual Annual Meetings: A Path Toward Shareholder Democracy and Stakeholder Engagement, 63 Boston College Law Review 123-198 (2022) (with Megan Wischmeier Shaner)
Cleaning Corporate Governance, 170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1-70 (2021) (with others)
Social Corporate Governance, 89 George Washington Law Review 932-1015 (2021) (with Jeremy McClane)
The Giant Shadow of Corporate Gadflies, 94 Southern California Law Review 569-636 (2021) (with Kobi Kastiel)
Competing for Votes, 10 Harvard Business Law Review 287-335 (2020) (with Kobi Kastiel)
Horizontal Directors, 114 Northwestern University Law Review 1179-1261 (2020)
Shadow Governance, 108 California Law Review 1097-1146 (2020) (with Cathy Hwang)
Shareholder-Driven Stakeholderism, 2020 University of Chicago Law Review Online 1-8 (2020) (with Cathy Hwang)
The Fallacy of Director Independence, 2020 Wisconsin Law Review 491-513 (2020)
Beyond the Numbers: Substantive Gender Diversity in Boardrooms, 94 Indiana Law Journal 145-202 (2019)
Board Diversity by Term Limits?, 71 Alabama Law Review 211-259 (2019) (with Darren Rosenblum)
Successor CEOs, 99 Boston University Law Review 787-836 (2019)
"Captured Boards": The Rise of "Super Directors" and the Case for a Board Suite, 2017 Wisconsin Law Review 19-68 (2017) (with Kobi Kastiel)
Out of Sight Out of Mind: The Case for Improving Director Independence Disclosure, 43 Journal of Corporation Law 35-76 (2017)
In Search of the "Absent" Shareholders: A New Solution to Retail Investors' Apathy, 41 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 55-104 (2016) (with Kobi Kastiel)
Servants of Two Masters? The Feigned Hysteria Over Activist-Paid Directors, 18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 509-572 (2016)
The "New Insiders": Rethinking Independent Directors' Tenure, 68 Hastings Law Journal 97-157 (2016)
Missing the Forest for the Trees: A New Approach to Shareholder Activism, 4 Harvard Business Law Review 157-212 (2014)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

No More “Mystery Meat”: Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data, ProMarket (June 8, 2021) (with others)
It Is Not Just Small Investors Who Will Be Silenced Thanks to SEC’s New Rules, ProMarket (November 4, 2020)
Better, but Not Good Enough: Women Still Are Few and Far Between on Corporate Boards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (March 28, 2018)

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