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]
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]