Dana Brakman Reiser
Non-Profit Organizations
Property Law
Social Enterprise
Articles & Essays
Why Boards Should Have Rotating Contrarians, ___ Ohio State Business Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2025) (with Claire Hill)
Foundation Regulation in Our Age of Impact, 17 Pittsburgh Tax Review 357 (2020)
Buyer Beware: Variation and Opacity in ESG and ESG Index Funds, 41 Cardozo Law Review 1921 (2020) (with Anne Tucker)
The Rise of Philanthropy LLCs, 16 Stanford Social Innovation Review 26 (Summer 2018)
Disruptive Philantrhopy: Chan-Zuckerberg, the Limited Liability Company, and the Millionaire Next Door, 70 Florida Law Review 921 (2018)
Financing the Benefit Corporation, 40 Seattle University Law Review 793 (2017) (with Steven Dean)
Using Non-Code Sec. 501(c)(3) Vehicles to Accomplish Philanthropic Objectives, Taxes, December 2017, at 41
Nonprofit Oversight under Siege: Introduction, 91 Chicago-Kent Law Review 843 (2016)
SE(c)(3): A Catalyst for Social Enterprise Crowdfunding, 90 Indiana Law Journal 1091 (2015) (with Steven Dean)
Theorizing Forms for Social Enterprise, 61 Emory Law Journal 683 (2013)
Benefit Corporations – A Sustainable Form of Organization?, 46 Wake Forest Law Review 591 (2011)​​
Introduction: Governing Civil Society, 36 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 813 (2010-2011) (with C. Kelly)​
Linking NGO Accountability and the Legitimacy of Global Governance, 36 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 1011 (2011) (with C. Kelly)​
Foreword: The Federalization of Nonprofit and Charity Law, 99 Kentucky Law Journal 637 (2010-2011)​
Charity Law's Essentials, 86 Notre Dame Law Review 1 (2011)
Blended Enterprise and the Dual Mission Dilemma, 35 Vermont Law Review 105 (2010)
Governing and Financing Blended Enterprise, 85 Chicago-Kent Law Review 619 (2010)
For-Profit Philanthropy, 77 Fordham Law Review 2437 (2009)
Director Independence in the Independent Sector, 76 Fordham Law Review 795 (2007)
Nonprofit Takeovers: Regulating the Market for Mission Control, 2006 Brigham Young University Law Review 1181 (2006)
Introduction, Symposium: Who Guards the Guardians?: Monitoring and Enforcement of Charity Governance, 80 Chicago-Kent Law Review 543 (2005) (with E. Brody)
There Ought to Be a Law: The Disclosure Focus of Recent Legislative Proposals for Nonprofit Reform, 80 Chicago-Kent Law Review 559 (2005)
Enron.org: Why Sarbanes-Oxley Will Not Ensure Comprehensive Nonprofit Accountability, 38 University of California at Davis Law Review 205 (2004)
Dismembering Civil Society: The Social Cost of Internally Undemocratic Nonprofits, 82 Oregon Law Review 829 (2003)
Decision-Makers Without Duties: Defining the Duties of Parent Corporations Acting as Sole Corporate Members in Nonprofit Health Care Systems, 53 Rutgers Law Review 979 (2001)
Charting No Man's Land: Applying Jurisdictional and Choice of Law Doctrines to Interstate Compacts, 111 Harvard Law Review 1991 (1998)
Book Review: Public Choice Theory: A Unifying Framework for Judicial Activism, 110 Harvard Law Review 1161 (1997) (reviewing Charles M. Haar, Suburbs Under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges(1996))
Granting Prescriptive Powers to Nurse Practitioners: Economic and Political Motivations, 1 Sound Politics 14 (1995)
Books
Advanced Introduction to Nonprofit Law (forthcoming 2025)
Social Enterprise Law: A Multijurisdictional Comparative Review (with Steven A. Dean & Giedre Lideikyte-Huber eds., 2023)
For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving (with Steven A. Dean) (Oxford University Press 2023)
Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit And Capital Markets (2017)
Conditional Strategies: A Response To Collective Action Problems In Non-Profit Fund Raising (Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Working Paper Series 1995)
Contributions to Books
Corporate Philanthropy: Development Tool or Profitable Strategy?, in Handbook on Philanthrocapitalism (forthcoming 2024)
The Social Enterprise: A New Form of The Business Enterprise?, General Report for the Asunción Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, in Comparative Social Enterprise Law (with Steven A. Dean & Giedre Lideikyte-Huber eds., 2023) (with Steven A. Dean)
European Law of Third Sector Organizations from the US Standpoint, in The Law of Third Sector Organizations In Europe: Foundations, Trends And Prospects (Antonio Fici ed., 2023)
Equity Financing for Social Enterprise, in Research Handbook on Global Capital Markets Law (Iain MacNeil & Iris H-Y Chiu eds., 2023) (with Anne M. Tucker)
Trust And For-Profit Philanthropy: From Surrey’s Private Foundation to Zuckerberg’s Limited Liability Company, in Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy (Henry Peter & Giedre Lideikyte-Huber eds. 2022) (with Steven A. Dean)
Progress is Possible: Sustainability in US Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, in Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability (Beate Sjåfjell & Christopher Bruner eds., 2020)
The Social Enterprise Life Cycle, in Cambridge Handbook on Social Enterprise Law (2017) (with Steven Dean)
Foundation Law in the United States, in 40 Stärkung des Stiftungswesens (2017)
Alternative Business Organizations and Social Enterprise, in Routledge Companion to Business Ethics (Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis & Alexei Marcoux eds., 2018)
Foreword, in The Social Enterprise Zoo (Edward Elgar 2016)
Filling the Gaps in Nonprofit Accountability: Applying the Club Perspective in the US Legal System, in Voluntary Regulation of NGOS and Nonprofits: An Accountability Club Framework (Cambridge University Press 2010)
Shorter Works
For-Profit Philanthropy: The Implications for Educational Development, 4 NORRAG Special Issue 58 (2020)
Book Review: Leverage for good: An introduction to the new frontiers of philanthropy and social investment by L. M. Salamon and New frontiers of philanthropy: A guide to the new tools and actors reshaping global philanthropy and social investing by L. M. Salamon (Ed.) 44 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 854(August 2015)