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CONTACT
mbarzuza@virginia.edu
(434) 924-7810
Room WB369

ASSISTANT
Lisa R. Lambert

SUBJECTS
Business law, Commercial law, Corporate finance, Corporate transactions, Corporations, Corporate governance

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Michal Barzuza

Caddell & Chapman Professor of Law
S.J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004
LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1999
LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1997
B.A., Tel Aviv University (Economics)

Michal Barzuza joined the faculty in 2005 after being a John M. Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School.

Barzuza's dissertation at Harvard won the John M. Olin Prize for Outstanding Paper in Law and Economics. She was a Byse Teaching Fellow and taught a workshop on regulatory competition in corporate and securities law. At Tel Aviv University, she was a member of the editorial board of the Tel Aviv University Law Review and a Cegla research fellow. She practiced corporate law at Haim Zadok & Co., in Israel, and was a summer associate at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in New York. She was a member of the board of directors of Southern Union Company.

Barzuza has presented in several conferences and workshops, including the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum; the annual meetings of the American, Canadian, European, and Israeli Law and Economics Associations; and workshops at Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago. She visited at New York University Law School during the 2010-11 school year.

Her research interests include corporate law, corporate finance, securities law and law and economics.

Scholarship Profile: Searching for the Right Mix of Freedom and Regulation in Corporate Law (Virginia Journal 2011)


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Publications and Discussion Papers

"What Happens in Nevada? Self-Selecting into a Lax Law," (with David C. Smith) (2012) Revise and Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.
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Articles about the study in: Reuters | Boardmember.com | Truth on the Market (blog) | California Corporate and Securities Law (blog) Post 1 • Post 2 | Virginia Law Website | Reuters | Time | Las Vegas Review Journal | Wisconsin Public Radio | McIntire School of Commerce News

"Lemon Signaling in Cross-Listing" Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2012-03 (revised March 2012) (under review).
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"Market Segmentation: The Rise of Nevada as a Liability-Free Jurisdiction" 98 Va. Law Rev. 935 (2012).
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Articles about the study in: Boardmember.com | Truth on the Market (blog) | Reuters | Time | Las Vegas Review-Journal | Wisconsin Public Radio | McIntire School of Commerce News | Financial Times | Treasure Islands | Selected as One of the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2012 by Corporate Practice Commentator

"Does the Structure of the Franchise Tax Matter?" 96 Va. Law Rev. In Brief 27 (2010).
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"The State of State Antitakeover Law," 95 Va. Law Rev. 1973 (2009).
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"Delaware's Compensation," 94 Va. L. Rev. 521 (2008).
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"The Market for Corporate Law," (with Oren Bar-Gill and Lucian A. Bebchuk), 162(1) J. Institutional & Theoretical Econ. 134 (2006).
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"Price Considerations in the Market for Corporate Law," 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 127 (2004).
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Working Papers:

"Signaling a Lemon: The Decision Not to Cross-List and High Private Benefits of Control" (with David C. Smith)
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