Jesse Fried

'''Jesse M. Fried''' is an American legal scholar. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at [[Harvard Law School]], where he was also the Dane Professor of Law from 2014 to 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jesse M. Fried |url=https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/jesse-m-fried/ |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=Harvard Law School |language=en-us}}</ref>

== Biography== Jesse Fried was born to a [[Jewish]] family.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fried |first=Jesse M. |last2=Meyerson |first2=Matthew L. |date=September 5, 2024 |title=Why We're Founding Harvard Faculty for Israel |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/9/5/fried-meyerson-harvard-faculty-for-israel/ |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=[[The Harvard Crimson]]}}</ref> He graduated from [[Harvard College]] with a [[B.A.]] in economics in 1986 with membership in [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He then received an [[M.A.]] in economics from the [[Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]] in 1989 and a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]], ''[[magna cum laude]]'', from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1992. ==Legal and academic career== After law school, he worked as a [[tax attorney]] at the law firm of Sullivan & Worcester in [[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]], from 1993 to 1995.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Fried |first=Jesse M. |date=August 2025 |title=Jesse M. Fried {{!}} CV |url=https://helios.law.harvard.edu/Public/Faculty/Cv.aspx?i=10289 |access-date=4 October 2025 |publisher=[[Harvard University]]}}</ref>

Fried was the John Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard University from 1995 to 1997 and became a professor of law at the [[UC Berkeley School of Law]] in 2003. In 2009, he became a professor of law at Harvard Law School and received the law school's appointment as its Dane Professor of Law in 2014.<ref name=":0" /> He is an expert in [[executive compensation]], [[corporate governance]], corporate bankruptcy, and [[venture capital]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=June 8, 2009 |title=Jesse Fried will join HLS faculty |url=https://hls.harvard.edu/today/jesse-fried-will-join-hls-faculty/ |access-date=2025-10-04 |website= |publisher=[[Harvard Law School]] |language=en-us}}</ref> ==Awards and recognition== In 2023, Fried was the 19th most-cited legal scholar in all fields according to the [[Social Science Research Network]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 23, 2023 |title=Harvard Law faculty among the most cited legal scholars by SSRN |url=https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-faculty-among-the-most-cited-legal-scholars-by-ssrn/ |access-date=2025-10-04 |website= |publisher=[[Harvard Law School]] |language=en-us}}</ref>

== Published works ==

* {{Cite book |last=Fried |first=Jesse M. |title=[[Pay Without Performance|Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation]] |last2=Bebchuk |first2=Lucian |author-link2=Lucian Bebchuk |date=2004 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=978-0674016651}} * {{Cite journal |last=Fried |first=Jesse M. |date=March 2014 |title=Insider Trading via the Corporation |url=https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7689&context=penn_law_review |journal=[[University of Pennsylvania Law Review]] |volume=162 |issue=4 |pages=801–839}} * {{Cite journal |last=Fried |first=Jesse M. |date=2021 |title=Will Nasdaq's Diversity Rules Harm Investors? |url=https://journals.law.harvard.edu/hblr/wp-content/uploads/sites/87/2022/02/Fried-Will-Nasdaq-Diversity-Rules-Harm-Investors.pdf |journal=[[Harvard Business Law Review]] |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=1–8}}

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== External links ==

* [https://fedsoc.org/bio/jesse-fried-1 Page] at the [[Federalist Society]]

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