Lynn A. Stout
Lynn A. Stout was an American corporate law scholar, and a Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law at Cornell Law School. She researched and wrote about corporate law, securities and derivatives regulation, law and economics, business ethics, and prosocial behavior in relation to the law. Her other books include Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People, The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Corporations First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public, and Citizen Capitalism: How A Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All. She died in 2018, with Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know in progress.