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Khanna, Vikramaditya S.

William W. Cook Professor of Law

3242 South Hall
734.615.6959
E-mail vskhanna@umich.edu
Vikramaditya Khanna, the William W. Cook Professor of Law, is codirector of the Joint Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law & Policy, a collaboration between Michigan Law and India's Jindal Global Law School. He earned his SJD at Harvard Law School, where he has been a visiting faculty member. He served as a senior research fellow at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School, and as a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. He was a recipient of the John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship in 2002–2003. His interest areas include corporate and securities law, corporate crime, law in India, corporate governance in emerging markets, and law and economics. He is the founding and current editor of both the India Law Abstracts and the White Collar Crime Abstracts on the Social Science Research Network and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and his papers have been published in the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Supreme Court Economic Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and the Georgetown Law Journal. News publications in the United States, India, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have quoted him. He has given talks at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, and Yale universities; the University of California, Berkeley; and the Wharton School, as well as to the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Law and Economics Association. He has presented in the United States, India, China, Turkey, Brazil, and Greece.

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Co-author. Methods for Multicountry Studies of Corporate Governance (and Evidence from the BRIKT Countries). B.S. Black et al., co-authors. Univ. of Michigan Law & Economics Research Paper Series, No. 13-005. Working Paper, 2013.
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Co-author. "Reforming the Corporate Bonds Market in India." U. Varottil, co-author. In NSE Annual Research Report. National Stock Exchange of India, Forthcoming.

"How Do Private Equity, Hedge Fund and Institutional Investors Utilize Corporate Governance Factors in Emerging Markets?" In World Bank Publication. Forthcoming.

When Should We Impose Criminal Sanctions on Executives? Working Paper, 2012.

Co-author. The Rise of the Corporate Counsel in India. D. B. Wilkins, co-author. Working Paper, 2012.

Co-author. The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Corporate Governance. M. J. Roe, co-author. Working Paper, 2012.

The Evolving Global Supply Chain in Legal Services. Working Paper, 2012.

The Development and Growth of Law Firms and Law Practice in India. Working Paper, 2012.

Co-author. Regulating "Squeeze Outs" in India. U. Varottil, co-author. Working Paper, 2012.

Law Enforcement and Stock Market Development. Working Paper, 2012.

Co-author. Freeze-Outs Before Cross-Listings: An Analysis of the Mardi Gras Effect. D. Dharmapala, co-author. Working Paper, 2012.

Co-author. CEO Connectedness and Corporate Frauds. E. H. Kim and Y. Lu, co-authors. Univ. of Michigan Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series, no. 283. Working Paper.
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Co-author. Firm-Level Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets: A Case Study of India. B.N. Balasubramanian and B.S. Black, co-authors. Univ. of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper Series, no. 08-011. Working Paper.
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The Economic History of Organizational Entities in Ancient India. Working Paper.
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Corporate Defendants and the Protections of Criminal Procedure: An Economic Analysis. Univ. of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper Series, no. 04-015. Working Paper.
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Toward a Functional Understanding of Standing. Harvard Law School, Center for Law, Economics, & Business Discussion Paper, no. 355. Working Paper.
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Co-author. Toward an Economic Theory of Pro-Defendant Criminal Procedure. K. N. Hylton, co-author. Harvard Law School Center for Law, Economics, & Business Discussion Paper, no. 318. Working Paper.
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. Co-author. "The Rarity of Derivative Actions in India: Reasons and Consequences." U. Varottil, co-author. In The Derivative Action in Asia: A Comparative and Functional Approach, edited by H. Baum, M. Ewing- Chow, and D. Puchniak, 369-97. International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.

Co-author. "Survey Says...Corporate Governance Matters to Investors in Emerging Market Companies.". R. Zyla, co-author. International Finance Corporation, (2012).
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"Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India." D. Dharmapala, co-author. J. L. Econ. & Org. (2012), (First published online April 2, 2012)
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"Reforming the Corporate Monitor?" In Prosecutors in the Boardroom: Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct, edited by A. S. Barkow and R. E. Barkow, 226-48. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011.
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Co-author. "The Relation Between Firm-Level Corporate Governance and Market Value: A Case Study of India." B. N. Balasubramanian and B. S. Black, co-authors. Emerging Markets Rev. 11, no. 4 (2010): 319-40.
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Co-author. "The Development of Modern Corporate Governance in China and India." N.C. Howson, co-author. In China, India and the International Economic Order, edited by M. Sornarajah and J. Wang, 513-76. London: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2010.
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Co-author. "The Role of Independent Directors in Controlled Firms in India Preliminary Interview Evidence." S. J. Mathew, co-author. Nat. L. Sch. India Rev. 22, no. 1 (2010): 35-66.

"The Current State of the Enforceability of Foreign Judgements & Arbitral Awards in India." India L. News 1, no. 1 (2009): 7-10, 18.

Co-author. "Political Economy of Criminal Procedure." K. N. Hylton, co-author. In Criminal Law and Economics, edited by N. Garoupa, 171-206. Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2nd ed., vol. 3. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009.
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"New Centres of Economic Power - New Challenges and Priorities for Fighting Corruption? Corporate Governance, Corporate Integrity in India." In Global Corruption Report 2009: Corruption and the Private Sector, by Transparency International. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009.

"Corporate Governance Ratings: One Score, Two Scores, or More?" U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 158 (2009): 39-51.
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"Corporate Governance in India: Past, Present & Future?" Jindal Global L.Rev. 1, no. 1 (2009).
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Activities

Presented "Symposium on Corporate Criminal Liability: What, Where and How?", Yale Law School, March 2010.

Presented (with Dhammika Dharmapala) "Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India," UCLA Law School, February 2010.

Panelist, "Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards in India," India Committee, ABA's International Law Section webinar, September 2009.

Gave the keynote address on "Corporate Governance in India: Past, Present and Future," Second Annual International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets, São Paulo, Brazil, July 2009.

Gave testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Hearing on Accountability, Transparency, and Uniformity in Corporate Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements, June 25, 2009.

Presented "U.S. Federal Securities Law, Litigation and Enforcement," Tokyo University School of Law, Tokyo, Japan, June 2009.

Presented "Reforming the Corporate Monitor?", Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, June 2009.

 
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