Michael C. Schouten is a corporate lawyer, specialized in corporate law, securities law and corporate governance. From 2004 to 2008 he practiced at a Dutch law firm. In 2008, he embarked on his PhD research and became a visiting research fellow at Columbia Law School in New York in 2008/2009 and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre for Business Research in 2010. His research explores the impact of decoupling of financial interests and voting rights on the governance of listed firms. He hopes to obtain his PhD in law in the course of this year.
At present, Michael is a Teaching Fellow at the Duisenberg School of Finance and a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. He has also resumed law practice and is active in M&A and corporate litigation.
Michael regularly publishes on corporate law matters and has published in journals such as the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, and in the Netherlands, the Dutch Journal of Company Law (Ondernemingsrecht). His paper The Mechanisms of Voting Efficiency was selected for the 2010 Harvard/Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum and came in first in the University of Amsterdam law faculty’s 2010 junior scholar paper competition. His research is available at SSRN and his Dutch publications are available here.
Michael graduated from the Faculty of Law (Corporate Law and Private Law) of the University of Amsterdam in 2003.
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