Assaf Hamdani

Assaf Hamdani is the Professor of Corporate Law at Oxford University and a Fellow of Jesus College.

His research areas are corporate law and governance and financial
regulation. His work examines issues such as the tension between
entrepreneurial vision and investor protection, corporate governance and
innovation, institutional investors, shareholder activism, corporate governance of controlled firms, and regulatory competition. He has published in leading journals such as the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Law and Economics, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Review, and Yale Law Journal.

Assaf is a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute and has held visiting professorships at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Hamdani was previously a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University, where he also served as Associate Dean for Research and Development, and the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Professor of Corporate Law at the Hebrew University. Assaf holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from the Hebrew University.