Louis Lowenstein (lawyer)

{{Short description|American lawyer (1925–2009)}}

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.{{cite news|title=Louis Lowenstein, Professor of Business Law and Critic of Wall St., Dies at 83|first=Dennis|last=Hevesi|date=April 25, 2009|accessdate=April 27, 2009|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/business/26lowenstein.html}}

He graduated with a B.S.from Columbia Business School in 1947, and a LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1953.{{Cite web|title=Louis Lowenstein|url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/all-faculty/louis-lowenstein|access-date=2020-06-14|website=www.law.columbia.edu|language=en}}

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.{{Cite journal|last1=Goldschmid|first1=Harvey J.|last2=Kopelman|first2=Kenneth P.|last3=Murphy|first3=Arthur W.|last4=Savitt|first4=William|last5=Schizer|first5=David M.|date=2009|title=In Memoriam: Louis Lowenstein|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380363|journal=Columbia Law Review|volume=109|issue=6|pages=1263–1277|jstor=40380363|issn=0010-1958}}

His son, Roger Lowenstein, is a financial journalist.