Dr. Asaf Eckstein

Senior Lecturer in the College of Law

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About

Eckstein is a senior lecturer in the fields of corporate law and securities law. He served as a visiting scholar at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Eckstein’s articles were cited in various forums abroad (including the Wall Street Journal) as well as in the Supreme Court and District Court rulings in Israel.

Education

Ph.D.
in Law, Tel Aviv University (2014)
LL.M. (research)
in Law, Tel Aviv University (2011)
LL.M. (theoretical)
in Law, Bar Ilan University (2010)
LL.B.
in Law, Ono Academic College (2009)

Teaching Areas

Corporate Law, Securities Law.

Research interests

Corporate Law, Securities Law.

Selected Publications

The Virtue of Common Ownership in an Era of Macro Legal Risks, 105 Iowa Law Review (forthcoming 2019)
Toward a Horizontal Fiduciary Duty in Corporate Law, Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2018) (with Prof. Gideon Parchomovsky)
(Long / Short Incentive Scheme for Proxy Advisory Firms Wake Forest Law Review (forthcoming 2018) (with Prof. Sharon Hannes
Skin in the Game: Aligning the Interests of Credit Rating Agencies, Proxy Advisors, and Investors, Harvard Business Law Review (2017)
Great Expectations: The Peril of an Expectations Gap in Proxy Advisory Firm Regulation, 40 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 77 (2015)
"Serial Inertia and Interest Groups: Empirical Evidence from the Capital Market Regulation" Law Studies 635 (2016).
"Who oversees the Supervisor? And with whom does she share her reports? The Israeli Securities and Exchange Commission with a Comparative View" Law & Business JD 195 (2015).
"Mixing Targets in the Securities Manipulation Offense" Law & Business 16, 2013 (2013).
"Significance of Immediate Reporting - Reconsideration and Legislative Proposal" Laws (2017) (in collaboration with Prof. Asaf Hamdani).
Asaf Eckstein & Gideon Parchomovsky, The Agent's Problem, 70 Duke Law Journal (forthcoming 2020)

CV

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