Rate My Professor Nitzan Shilon

Professor Nitzan Shilon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law. Trained in both law and economics, he received his LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude), and an M.A. in Financial Economics (magna cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University School of Economics. Shilon has taught at Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, and Harvard College. He previously served as a commissioner at the Israeli Securities Authority and practiced corporate law at leading law firms in New York City and Israel.

His research centers on corporate and financial law, with a focus on emerging trends in executive compensation, corporate control, and corporate finance. Key publications include "Stock Buyback Ability to Enhance CEO Compensation: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications," 25 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 303 (2021); "Replacing Executive Equity Compensation: The Case for Cash for Long-Term Performance," 43 Del. J. Corp. L. 1 (2018); "Putting Directors’ Money Where Their Mouths Are: A New Approach to Improving Corporate Takeover Dynamics," 2017 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 511; "CEO Stock Ownership Policies – Rhetoric and Reality," 90 Ind. L.J. 353 (2015); and "Excess-Pay Clawbacks," 36 J. Corp. L. 722 (2011, with Jesse M. Fried). Additional contributions appear in the Cambridge Handbook on Investor Protection (2021). Shilon has received the John M. Olin Student Writing Prize in Law & Economics, J. Terence M. Considine Fellowship in Law and Economics, Byse Fellowship, and Fulbright Fellowship from Harvard Law School. His scholarship has been featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, Reuters, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, and New York Times. He has presented at conferences of the American Law and Economics Association, European Law and Economics Association, and Wharton Financial Regulation Conference, and delivered an invited talk, "The Role of the Legal System in Opening Up China’s Securities Markets to the Outside World," at the 14th Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai (2023).