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“A Corporate Government”

Legal scholars Sarah Haan (Brooklyn Law School ), Sergio AlbertoGramitto Ricci (Hofstra Law School ), and Christina Sautter (SMU Dedman School of Law ) explore the tangled history and present-day stakes of shareholder participation, corporate power, and regulatory capture.

“New York’s Quirky Mayoral Vote Recalls a Lost Corporate Tradition”

John Foley, Financial Times, June 28, 2025

“The unusual thing about last week’s New York Democratic mayoral primary wasn’t who voters chose, but how they did it. The party employs a ranked choice system: select five candidates in order, and if your first pick comes last, it’s the second choice that counts. This favours consensus. The outcome is less likely to be someone that most people dislike.”

March 19, 2025 (Free Float Media)

Mike talks with Sarah Haan of Brooklyn Law School about the connections between shareholder democracy and civic democracy, and how they inform our understanding of current trends in activist investing

Citizens United Overreach, Center for American Progress, May 2024 (featured speaker with FEC Commissioner Shana M. Broussard, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, and U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse) icon for links that open in a new browser window (small)

“Voting Rights in Corporate Governance,” Webinar for members of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), February 2023 icon for links that open in a new browser window (small)

(See also: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/01/31/voting-rights-in-corporate-governance-history-and-political-economy/)

“How Sexism Influenced Corporate Governance,” Peter Coy, New York Times, December 12, 2022 icon for links that open in a new browser window (small)

“Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital,” Business Scholarship Podcast, March 9, 2021 icon for links that open in a new browser window (small)

Sarah Haan on Citizens United at 10, Business Scholarship Podcast, January 21, 2020 icon for links that open in a new browser window (small)