First tiers (provisional)
– Bagley, C.E. (2008) “Winning Legally : the Value of Legal Astuteness”, Academy of Management Review, 33(2), 378.
– Bagley, C.E. (2010) “What’s Law Got to Do With It?: Integrating Law and Strategy”, 47 Am Bus Law J. 587.
– Bagley, C.E. (2016) “The Value of a Legally Astute Top Management Team: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach”, in Teece D. J. and Heaton S. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities.
– Baron D. P. (1995) “Integrated strategy: Market and Nonmarket Components: the non-Market Strategy system”, Sloan Management Review, 73.
– Berger-Walliser, G. & Shrivastava, P. (2015) “Beyond Compliance: Sustainable Development, Business, and Proactive Law”, 46 GEO. J. INT’L. L. 418.
– Berger-Walliser, G. (2012) “The Past and Future of Proactive Law: An Overview of the Development of the Proactive Law Movement”, in Berger-Walliser G. & Ostergaard K. (eds.) Proactive Law in a Business Environment, 13.
– Berger-Walliser, G., Barton, T.D. and Haapio, H. (2017), “From Visualization to Legal Design: A Collaborative and Creative Process”, Am Bus Law J, 54: 347.
– Berger-Walliser, G., Sulkowski, A.J., Shrivastava, P. (2016) “Using Proactive Legal Strategies for Corporate Environmental Sustainability”, 6 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L., 1.
– Berger-Walliser, Gerlinde, Bird, Robert C. and Haapio, Helena (2011) “Promoting Business Success through Contract Visualization”, 17 Journal of Law, Business and Ethics 55.
– Bird, R. C. (2008), “Pathways of legal strategy”, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, 14:1.
– Bird R. C. (2010), “The Many Futures of Legal Strategy”, 47 Am Bus Law J. 575
– Bird R.C. (2011) “Law, Strategy, and Competitive Advantage”, 44 Conn. L. Rev. 61.
– Bird R. C. & Orozco D. (2014) “Finding the Right Corporate Legal Strategy”, 56 MIT SLOAN MGMT. REV. 81.
– Bishara, N.D. & Orozco, D. (2012) “Using the Resource-Based Theory to Assess Covenant not to Compete Legitimacy”, 87 Indiana Law Journal.
– Daicoff S. (2005) “Law as a Healing Profession: The “Comprehensive Law Movement”, 6 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 1.
– Daicoff S. (2006) “The Comprehensive Law Movement: An Emerging Approach to Legal Problems” in Peter Wahlgren (ed), A Proactive Approach – Scandinavian Studies in Law vol 49, Stockholm Institute for Scandinavian Law.
– DiMatteo Larry A. (2010) “Strategic Contracting: Contract Law as a Source of Competitive Advantage”, 47 AM. BUS. L.J. 727.
– DiMatteo Larry A., Siedel G. & Haapio H. (2012) “Strategic Contracting: Examining the Business-Legal Interface”, in Berger-Walliser G. & Ostergaard K. (eds.) Proactive Law in a Business Environment, 59. 
– Gilson, R.J. (1984) “Value Creation by Business Lawyers: Legal Skills and Asset Pricing”, Yale Law Journal, 94 (2), 239
– LoPucki L. M. (1996) “Legal Culture, Legal Strategy, and the Law in Lawyers’Head”, 90 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1498.
– LoPucki, L. M. & Weyrauch, W. O. (2000), “A Theory of Legal Strategy”, Duke Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 6, April 2000.
– Lumineau, F, Fréchet, M. & Puthod, D. (2011), “An organizational learning perspective on the contracting process”, Strategic Organization, 9(1), 8
– Lumineau, F. (2017) “How Contract Influence Trust and Distrust”, Journal of management, 43(5), 1553.
– Masson A., Shariff M. J. (2011) “Through the Legal Looking Glass: Exploring the Concept of Corporate Legal Strategy” 22 European Business Law Review, p. 51–77.
– Oliver, C. (1991) “Strategic response to institutional processes”, Academy of Management Review, 16(1), 145.
– Orozco D. (2010) “Legal Knowledge as an Intellectual Property Management Resource”, 47 AM. BUS. L. J. 687. 714.
– Orozco D. (2016) “Strategic Legal Bullying” 13(1) NYU Journal of Law & Business
– Orozco D. (2016), “The Use of Legal Crowdsourcing (‘Lawsourcing’) to Achieve Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Objectives”, Am Bus Law J, 53: 145.
– Orozco D. (2017) “The Evolution of an Interdisciplinary Course: Intellectual Property and Business Strategy”, 19(2) Technology and Innovation – Journal of the National Academy of Inventors (2017)
– Ostas D.T. (2009), “Legal Loopholes and Underenforced Laws: Examining the Ethical Dimensions of Corporate Legal Strategy”, American Business Law Journal, 46: 487-529.
– Park S K. & Berger-Walliser G., (2015) “A Firm-Driven Approach to Global Governance and Sustainability”, 52 American Business Law Journal 255
– Peterson Evan A. (2019), Promoting Future-Oriented Legal Thinking in Long-term Strategic Planning, 29 S.L.J. 69
– Schwarcz, S. L. (2007) “Explaining the value of transaction lawyering”, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, 12: 486-499.
– Seidel, G., & Haapio, H. (2010) “Using proactive law for competitive advantage”, American Business Law Journal, 47: 641.
– Shell, G.R. (2004) “Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will“, New York, N.Y.: Crown Business.
– Siedel G. J. & Haapio Helena (2010), “Using Proactive Law for Competitive Advantage”, 47 AM. BUS. L.J. 641
– Siedel G. J. & Ladwig, C. (2020) “Strategy, Law and Ethics for Business Decisions“, West Academic Publishing, 2020.
– Siedel, G. et Haapio, H. (2011) “Proactive law for managers – a hidden source of competitive advantage“, Surrezy : Gower.
– Yoffie, D. B. (1988) “How an Industry Builds Political Advantage” Harvard Business Review, 38(3): 80.

Second tiers (provisional)
– Aragon-Correa J. A. et Sharma S. (2003) “Contingent Resource-Based View of Proactive Corporate Environmental Strategy”, Academy of Management Review, 28 (1), 71.
– Argyris N. & Mayer K.J. (2007) “Contract Design as a Firm Capability: an Integration of Learning and Transaction Cost Perspectives” Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1060.
– Bagley C. E., Clarkson R., Power M. (2010) “Deep Links: Does Knowledge of the Law change Manager’s Perceptions of the Role of Law and Ethic in Business ?” 47 Hous. L. Rev. p. 259.
– Baker Colleen, M. & Ostas, D.T. (2020), “Ethics of Legal Astuteness: Barring Class Actions through Arbitration Clauses”, 29 S. CAL. Interdisc. L.J. 399.
– Baron D. P. & Diermeier D. (2007), “Strategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy”, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 2007 , p. 599.
– Barton, T. D., Berger-Walliser, G. and Haapio, H. (2013), “Visualization: Seeing Contracts for What They Are and What They Could Become,” 19 Journal of Law, Business and Ethics 47
– Berger-Walliser, G., Barton, T.D. and Haapio, H. (2017), “From Visualization to Legal Design: A Collaborative and Creative Process” Am Bus Law J, 54: 347
– Bibas, S. (2004) “Plea Bargaining outside the Shadow of the Trial”, Harvard law review, 117, 2464.
– Bird R. C. & Hiller, J. (2016), “Rediscovering the power of law in business”, AACSB Blog.
– Chayes A. & Chayes A. H. (1985) “Corporate Counsel and the Elite Law Firm”, 37 STAN. L. REV, 277.
– Cooter R., Marks S., Mnokin R. (1982), “Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: A Testable Model of Strategic Behavior”, Journal of legal studies, vol. XI, 225.
– Coyle J. & Green J. M.(2014) “Contractual innovation Contractual Innovation in Venture Capital”, Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 66, p. 133.
– Daniel W. Bernal & Margaret D. Hagan (2020), “Redesigning Justice Innovation: A Standardized Methodology”, 16 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 335.
– Desai, V. (2016) “Under the Radar : regulatory Collaborations and their selective use to facilitate organizational compliance”, Academy of Management Review, 44(2), 299.
– Edelman, L. B. &  Suchman, M.C. (1997), “The legal environments of organizations”, Annual Review of sociology, 23, 479
– Engel C., Klement, A Weinshall Margel, K. (2018) “Diffusion of legal innovations: The case of Israeli class actions”, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 16 (1).
– Evans, J.W. and Gabel, A.L. (2020), “Legal Entrepreneurship and the Strategic Virtues of Legal Uncertainty”, Am Bus Law J, 57: 593.
– Fraser V. & Roberge J-F (2016), “Legal Design Lawyering: Rebooting legal business Model with Design thinking”, 16(2) Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law journal, 303.
– Fraser V. & Roberge J-F (2019), “Cooperative Design Lawyering: How Can Lawyers Prevent Disputes Through Value Innovation ?” 20(3) Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, 5572.
– Gilardi, F., and Wasserfallen, F. (2019) “The Politics of Diffusion”. European Journal of Political Research, 58(4), 1245–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
– Giorgi, S, Maoret, M. et Zjac, E. (2019), “On the relationship between firms and their legal environment: the role of cultural consonance”, organization Science, 30(4), 803-830.
– Holburn G.L.F and Vanden Bergh R. (2004) “Influencing Agencies through Pivotal Political Institution”, 20(2) Journal of law, Economics and Organisation 458.
– Kagan R., Cunningham N. & Thornton D. (2003) “Explaining corporate environmental performance: how does regulation matter”, Law and Society Review, 37, 2003.
– L.A Bebchuk and A. Cohen (2003) “Firms Decisions Where to Incorporate” 46(2) Journal of Law and Economics, 383.
– Laufer W. S. (1999) “Corporate Liability, Risk Shifting and the Paradox of Compliance” 52 VAND. L. REV. 1343.
– Levie, J. et Autio, E. (2011) “Regulatory Burden, rule of Law, and entry of strategic entrepreneurs: an international panel study”, Journal of Management studies, 48(6), 1392.
– McBarnet (D.) & Whelan (C.) (1991), “The Elusive Spirit of the Law: Formalism and the Struggle for Legal Control“,  54(6) The Modern Law Review, Law and Accountancy, 848.
– Orozco D (2021) “Strategically Astute Contracting: The Ticketmaster Case Study”, Business Horizons.
– Ostas, D.T. and Hilling, A. (2016), “Global Tax Shelters, the Ethics of Interpretation, and the Need for a Pragmatic Jurisprudence” Am Bus Law J, 53: 745.
– Posner E., Choi S. J. & Gulati G. M. (2013) “The Dynamics of Contract Evolution” 88 New York University Law Review 1.
– Shipan C. H. & Volden C. (2008), “The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion”, American Journal of Political Science, 52 , 840.
– William D. Henderson (2018), “Innovation Diffusion in the Legal Industry”, 122 Dick. L. Rev. 395.

In foreign language : French
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Books
In English
R. Harris, Mr Bumpkin’s Lawsuit or How to Win you Opponent’s Case, 1883.
R. B. Sobol, Bending the Law, University of Chicago Press, 1991.
R. Shamir, Managing legal Uncertainty, Duke University Press, 1995
G. Siedel, Using the Law for Competitive Advantage, Jossey-Bass, 2002.
C. E. Bagley, Winning Legally : How to use the Law to create value, marshal resources, and manage risk, Boston : Harvard Business Review Press, 2005.
S. Frankenberger, Management of Regulatory Influence on Corporate Strategy and Structure, Gabler Edition Wissenschaft, 2006.
A. Masson & M. J. Shariff (ed.) Legal Strategies: how corporations use law to improve performance, Springer 2010.
G. Siedel & H. Haapio, Proactive Law for Managers, Gower, 2011.
G. Berger-Walliser & K. Østergaard, Proactive Law in a Business environment, Djøf Publishing, 2012.
H. Haapio & G. J. Siedel, A short Guide to Contract Risk, Gower, 2013.
D. Howarth, Law as Engineering, EE, 2013
Th. Beke, Litigation Communication, Springer, 2014.
P. Kurer, Legal & Compliance Risk, Oxford, 2015.
S. B. Levy, Legal Project Management, American Bar Association, 2nd edition, 2016.
G. Siedel, The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law and Ethics, Van Rye Publishing, 2016.
K. Jacob, D. Schindler et R. Strathausen (ed.) Liquid legal – tome 1, Springer 2017.
C. E. Bagley, Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for Business 9th Edition, Cengage Learning, 2018.
C. E. Bagley & G. E. Dauchy, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Law and Strategy, Cengage, Fifth edition, 2018.
A. Masson & G. Robinson (ed) Mapping Legal Innovation, Springer, 2021.
S. Melvin, D. Orozco, F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Business law and Strategy, Mc Graw Hill, 2021

In French
Cl. Lazarus, Ch. Leben, A. Lyon Caen & B. Verdier, L’entreprise multinationale face au droit, Litec, 1977
J. Dubergé, Les français face à l’impôt : essai de psychologie fiscale, LGDJ, 1990.
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J.-Ph. Dom, Les montages en droit des sociétés, Joly, 1994.
R. Chotin, Le fisc, la petite entreprise et l’expert-comptable : Jeux d’acteurs et stratégies judicieuses, LGDJ, 1995.
Th. du Manoir de Juaye, Intelligence économique : utiliser toutes les ressources du droit, Edition de l’organisation, 2000.
Th. du Manoir de Juaye, Le droit pour dynamiser votre business, Édition d’Organisation, 2004.
Merkatis (ed.), L’intelligene juridique, economica, 2004.
F. Verdun, La gestion des risques juridiques, Édition d’Organisation, 2006.
Cl. Champaud & D. Danet, Stratégies judiciaires des entreprises, Dalloz, 2006.
J.-Y. Tronchon & F.Vincke (éd.) L’entreprise face à la mondialisation : opportunités et risques ? Bruylant 2006.
P. Corbel, Management stratégique des droits de propriété intellectuelle, Gualino éditeur, 2007.
A. Masson (ed.) Les stratégies juridiques des entreprises, Larcier, 2010.
Ch. Collard & Ch. Roquilly, La performance juridique, LGDJ, 2010.
J.-L. Rossignol, La gouvernance juridique et fiscale des organisations, Lavoisier, 2010
Th. du Manoir de Juaye, Les Robes noires dans la guerre économique, nouveau monde édition, 2011.
Ch. Collard, C. Delhaye, H.-B. Loosdregt & Ch. Roquilly, Risque juridique et conformité, Lamy, 2011.
V. Rebeyrol & E. Schönberg, Managers, maîtriser vos risques juridiques, Pearson, 2011.
V. de Beaufort et A. Masson, Lobbying et procès orchestrés, Larcier, 2011.
Ch. Roquilly, La contribution des juristes et du droit à la performance de l’entreprise, Joly, 2011.
P. Durant-Barthez & F. Lenglart, Choisir son droit, l’Harmattan, 2012.
N. Landry, Slapp, Ecosociété, 2012.
Fidal (ed.), La gestion du risque juridique, AMRAE, 2012.
L. Nurit-Pontier, Risques d’entreprise : quelle stratégie juridique, LGDJ, 2012.
H. Bouthinon-Dumas & A. Masson (ed.), Stratégies juridiques des acteurs économiques, Larcier, 2012.
A. Masson, H. Bouthinon-Dumas, V. de Beaufort et F. Jenny (ed.), Stratégies d’instrumentalisation juridique et concurrence, Larcier, 2013.
G. Leveau, Pratique du Contract Management, Gualino, 2013.
Ch. Varila Vaillant, Organisation et management de la fonction juridique en entreprise, Larcier, 2013
R. Sève (ed.), L’entreprise multinationale dans tous ses états, Archives de philosophie du droit, Dalloz, tome 56, 2014.
M. Varnav, Gestion des risques juridiques bancaires, Larcier, 2015.
J. Le coeff & S. Onné (ed.), Puissance de la norme, EMS, 2017.
A.Masson & H. Bouthinon-Dumas (ed.), L’innovation juridique et judiciaire, Larcier 2019.
P. Cornut St-Pierre, La fabrique juridiques es swaps, SciencesPo, 2019.
B. Barraud, La prospective Juridique, l’Harmattan, 2019.
A. Quiquerez, Stratégies internationales et propriété intellectuelle, Larcier, 2019.
L. Cappelletti & N Dufour, La gestion innovante des normes, Gereso, 2020.