Louis Lowenstein (lawyer)

Louis Lowenstein (June 13, 1925 – April 18, 2009) was an American attorney. He was a founding partner of Kramer Levin (at the time known as Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen & Kamin) now one of New York City's corporate law firms; president of Supermarkets General, a supermarket conglomerate whose operating subsidiary was known as Pathmark; professor at Columbia University School of Law; and a leading critic of the U.S. financial industry.[1]

He graduated with a B.S.from Columbia Business School in 1947, and a LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1953.[2]

He was the author of several books, including:

  • What’s Wrong With Wall Street: Short Term Gain and the Absentee Shareholder, Addison-Wesley, 1988
  • Sense and Nonsense in Corporate Finance, 1991
  • The Investor’s Dilemma: How Mutual Funds Are Betraying Your Trust and What to Do About It, Wiley, 2008

He also coedited and contributed to Knights, Raiders, and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover, published by Oxford University Press in 1988.[3]

His son, Roger Lowenstein, is a financial journalist.[1]

References
  1. Hevesi, Dennis (April 25, 2009). "Louis Lowenstein, Professor of Business Law and Critic of Wall St., Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
  2. "Louis Lowenstein". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  3. Goldschmid, Harvey J.; Kopelman, Kenneth P.; Murphy, Arthur W.; Savitt, William; Schizer, David M. (2009). "In Memoriam: Louis Lowenstein". Columbia Law Review. 109 (6): 1263–1277. ISSN 0010-1958.
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