Mark Roe

Legal Theorist

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-8099
E-Mail: mroe@law.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Roe is David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He teaches and writes on corporate finance, corporate governance, and corporate bankruptcy, often from a comparative law and politics perspective. He is the author of Political Determinants of Corporate Governance (2003) and Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (1994). Roe edited or co-edited Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance Systems (2004), Corporate Governance: Political and Legal Perspectives (2005), and Comparative Corporate Governance (1998). His article “Legal Origins and Modern Stock Markets” appeared recently in the Harvard Law Review.