Jonathon Zytnick is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, where he writes and teaches about corporate governance, shareholder voting, and financial regulation. His research has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Midwest Finance Association’s Paul Van Arsdell Award in Corporate Finance, the John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, the Northern Finance Association’s Best Paper in Corporate Finance, and the American Law and Economics Association’s Best Paper Award. His work has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics, the American Law and Economics Review, and the New York Times. Before joining Georgetown, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at NYU’s Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance, Counsel to SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson, a corporate associate at Paul, Weiss, and a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He holds a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in Economics from Columbia University.

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Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Edwin Hu, Nadya Malenko & Jonathon Zytnick, Custom Proxy Voting Advice (working paper). [SSRN]
Robert J. Jackson, Jr. & Jonathon Zytnick, Individual Investor Ideology (working paper). [SSRN]
Jonathon Zytnick, Imputing Proxy Advisor Recommendations (working paper). [SSRN]
Jonathon Zytnick, Trick of the Trade: A Proposal to End Tanking for Draft Picks (working paper). [SSRN]
Edward R. Morrison, Belisa Pang & Jonathon Zytnick, Manipulating Random Assignment: Evidence From Consumer Bankruptcies in the Nation’s Largest Cities, Am. L. & Econ. Rev. (forthcoming). [SSRN]