Ben Bates is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate
Governance. Ben’s research focuses on corporate and securities law and uses
empirical methods to study risks to investors in public and private markets. His most
recent work studies funds that give retail investors access to private market
investments. Some of Ben’s other work examines the ways that boards of directors
control the shareholder voting process in public companies.
Ben holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School. During law school, he
was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and spent his summers working as a summer
associate at a major U.S. law firm and as an intern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
District of Massachusetts. Ben also holds a B.S. (Finance, magna cum laude) from
Brigham Young University.
