Scott Hirst
Associate Professor of Law
BComm LLB, University of Queensland, Australia
LLM, Harvard Law School
SJD, Harvard Law School
Biography
Scott Hirst joined Boston University School of law as an associate professor in 2018. His research seeks to explain phenomena in corporate law, securities regulation, and related areas, and to inform policy making on these subjects. His work combines empirical methods and conceptual analyses from finance, accounting, and economics, with close attention to the institutional environment within which corporations and investors make decisions. He teaches Corporations, Corporate Governance, and Mergers and Acquisitions.
Hirst’s recent scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Harvard Business Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It has been referred to by the Securities and Exchange Commission in its rule making and discussed in the Wall Street Journal, among other places.
Before joining BU Law, Hirst served as research director of the Program on Institutional Investors at Harvard Law School and practiced for seven years in the mergers and acquisitions group of Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York. Hirst received Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) and Master of Laws (LLM) degrees from Harvard Law School, and Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
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- Faculty, Full-Time Faculty, and Professors & Clinical Instructors
- Areas of Interest
- Corporate Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory Design, and Securities
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Publications
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Scott Hirst, Saving Climate Disclosure 28 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance (2023)
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Scott Hirst & Lucian Bebchuk, Big Three Power, and Why It Matters 102 Boston University Law Review (2022)
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Scott Hirst, Holger Spamann & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (3rd. Ed.) (2022)
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Scott Hirst & Adriana Z. Robertson, Hidden Agendas in Shareholder Voting 39 Yale Journal on Regulation (2022)
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Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2nd Edition) (2021)
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Holger Spamann, Scott Hirst & Gabriel Rauterberg, Corporations in 100 Pages (2020)
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Scott Hirst & Lucian Bebchuk, Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, and Policy 119 Columbia Law Review (2019)
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Scott Hirst & Kobi Kastiel, Corporate Governance by Index Exclusion 99 Boston University Law Review (2019)
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Scott Hirst & Lucian Bebchuk, The Specter of the Giant Three 99 Boston University Law Review (2019)
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Scott Hirst, The Case for Investor Ordering No. 2017-13 The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Discussion Paper (2018)
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Scott Hirst, Universal Proxies No. 2016-11 The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Discussion Paper (2018)
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Scott Hirst, Lucian A. Bebchuk & Alma Cohen, The Agency Problems of Institutional Investors 31 Journal of Economic Perspectives (2017)
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Scott Hirst, Frozen Charters No. 2016-01 The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Discussion Paper (2017)
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Scott Hirst, Social Responsibility Resolutions No. 2016-06 The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Discussion Paper (2016)
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Scott Hirst, Lucian A. Bebchuk & June Rhee, Towards the Declassification of S&P 500 Boards 3 Harvard Business Law Review (2013)
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Scott Hirst & Lucian A. Bebchuk, Private Ordering and the Proxy Access Debate No. 653 The Harvard John M. Olin Discussion Paper Series (2010)
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In the Media
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CNN June 21, 2023
401(k) Plans Have Never Been Hotter. That’s Changing the Stock Market.
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ECGI January 20, 2023
Appointment of 56 New ECGI Research Members
Scott Hirst is appointed as a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
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Markets Media November 28, 2022
How Much Do Investors Care About Social Responsibility?
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ThinkAdvisor July 21, 2022
Sanders’ Tweet on Power of Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street Raises Eyebrows
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Harvard Law School Forum July 6, 2022
Hidden Agendas in Shareholder Voting
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ETF Stream February 22, 2022
Charlie Munger Blasts Index Funds and the ‘Emperors’ Behind Them
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Investor’s Chronicle January 4, 2022
The Growing Power Of Passives
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ETF Stream December 21, 2021
Common Ownership is ‘Defining Battleground’ for ETF Industry Over Next Decade
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Financial Times October 7, 2021
The Ten Trillion Dollar Man: How Larry Fink Became King of Wall St
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The Australian Financial Review August 5, 2021
Share Ownership and Competition at the Heart of Probe
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Hariri Institute for Computing May 28, 2021
Introducing Our Latest Hariri Institute Fellows
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October 13, 2019
Activists Thought BlackRock, Vanguard Found Religion on Climate Change. Not Anymore
Scott Hirst quoted in <em>CNBC<em/>.
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October 8, 2019
Is Your Retirement Fund Ruining Our Economy?
Scott Hirst quoted in <em>NPR<em/>.
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September 23, 2019
Three Fund Managers May Soon Control Nearly Half of all Corporate Voting Power, Researchers Warn
Scott Hirst is featured in <em>MorningStar</em>.
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July 23, 2019
Three Fund Managers May Soon Control Nearly Half of All Corporate Voting Power, Researchers Warn
Scott Hirst's upcoming paper is mentioned in <em>Market Watch</em>.
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