Lisa Fairfax

Lisa Fairfax is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She contributed the 2014 article "Toward a Theory of Shareholder Leverage" to the UCLA Law Review's online journal Discourse, analyzing competing corporate governance models including shareholder primacy, director primacy, and team production frameworks.

Research Interests

• Corporate law and governance
• Shareholder rights and leverage
• Board of director accountability
• Corporate social responsibility

Publications

• Her 2014 work examines tensions between shareholder empowerment and board decision-making authority in corporate governance.
• Focuses on implications of agency cost theory and federal reforms promoting shareholder influence.