Professor Bernard Black
Professor of Finance
Kellogg School of Management
Email: bblack@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Bernard S. Black is Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management,
and will be Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University
School of Law and Kellogg School of Management (beginning Sept. 1, 2010).
He is also managing director of the Social Science Research Network, and
founding chairman of the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies.
Professor Black received a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. in
physics from University mailto:bblack@kellogg.northwestern.eduof
California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He was
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School from 1998-2004 and at Columbia Law
School from 1988-1998. His principal research areas are law and finance,
international corporate governance, health care and medical malpractice,
and corporate and securities law. His books include To Sue is Human: A
Profile of Medical Malpractice Litigation (forthcoming 2010, with David
Hyman, William Sage, Charles Silver, and Kathryn Zeiler), The Law and
Finance of Corporate Acquisitions (2nd ed., with Ronald Gilson, 1995 and
supplement 2003) and Guide to the Russian Law on Joint Stock Companies
(with Reinier Kraakman and Anna Tarassova (1998).
