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Biography

Holger Spamann is the Lawrence R. Grove Professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporations, corporate finance, and a class on private funds. His research employs theoretical and empirical tools from economics, psychology, and comparative law. His main areas of interest are corporate governance, financial markets, and social-scientific jurisprudence. Before academia, he practiced with the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton in New York and clerked for two years in Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and U.S., French, and German law degrees. He has written articles on, inter alia, the duty of care, bankers’ pay, government accounting, and comparative corporate governance.