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 Corporate Governance Academic Forum’s Best Paper Award, 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 Review’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.

Scholarship

Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Jonathon Zytnick, Trade the Pick: Ending Tanking in Professional Sports (working paper). [SSRN]
Edwin Hu, Nadya Malenko & Jonathon Zytnick, Other People’s Votes: The Law and Economics of Proxy Advice, Geo. L.J. (forthcoming).
Jonathon Zytnick & William Clayton, The Reputation Paradox: Private Funds, New Managers, and the Allocation of Investment Capital, J. Corp. L. (forthcoming).

Selected Contributions to Other Publications

Edwin Hu, Nadya Malenko & Jonathon Zytnick, Custom Proxy Voting Advice (Eur. Corp. Governance Inst., Fin. Working Paper Series No. 975/2024, Jan. 2026). [SSRN]
Robert J. Jackson, Jr. & Jonathon Zytnick, Individual Investor Ideology (Eur. Corp. Governance Inst., Fin. Working Paper Series No. 1097/2025, Oct. 2025). [SSRN]