Browsing by Subject "Corporation law -- United States"

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    • Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Persona 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950- (University of Illinois Law Review, 2013)
      In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Citizens United v. FEC that restrictions on corporate political speech were unconstitutional because of the First Amendment rights granted corporations as a result of their status ...
    • Corporate Voting and the Takeover Debate 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Thomas, Randall S., 1955- (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2005)
      For many years academics have debated whether it is better to permit hostile acquirers to use tender offers to gain control over unwilling target companies, or to force them to use corporate elections of boards of directors ...
    • Corporations and the Market for Law 
      O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (University of Illinois Law Review, 2008)
      The state competition for corporate law has long been studied as a distinct phenomenon. Under the traditional view, corporations are subject to a unique choice-of-law rule, the internal affairs doctrine (IAD). This rule ...
    • Intraportfolio Litigation 
      Rose, Amanda M.; Squire, Richard (Northwestern University Law Review, 2011)
      The modern trend is for investors to diversify. Shareholders who own one S&P 500 firm tend to own many of the others as well. This trend casts doubt on the traditional compensation and deterrence rationales for legal rules ...
    • Locking in Capital: What Corporate Law Achieved for Business Organizers in the Nineteenth Century 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950- (UCLA Law Review, 2003)
      This Article argues that corporate status became popular in the nineteenth century as a way to organize production because of the unique manner in which incorporation permitted organizers to lock in financial capital. ...
    • Specific Investment and Corporate Law 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynne A., 1957- (European Business Organization Law Review, 2006)
      At the close of the twentieth century, U.S. corporate scholarship was dominated by a principal-agent paradigm that assumed that shareholders were the principals or sole residual claimants in public corporations, and also ...
    • Specific Investment: Explaining Anomalies in Corporate Law 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynn A. (Journal of Corporation Law, 2006)
      This essay has two goals: to praise Professor Robert Clark as a remarkable corporate scholar, and to explore how his work has helped to advance our understanding of corporations and corporate law. Clark wrote his classic ...
    • Team Production in Business Organizations: An Introduction 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynne A., 1957- (Journal of Corporation Law, 1999)
      For the past two decades, legal and economic scholarship has tended to assume that the central economic problem addressed by corporation law is getting managers and directors to act as faithful agents for shareholders. ...
    • A Theoretic Analysis of Corporate Auctioneers Liability Regimes 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Hansen, Robert Gordon, 1957- (Wisconsin Law Review, 1992)
      In Schneider v. Lazard Freres & Co. a New York appellate court greatly expanded the liability of investment advisers working as corporate auctioneers. Under this new legal regime, auctioneer/advisers accused of simple ...