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Beware The Sleeper: Harris V Quinn, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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A New Matrix: Do The Interests Of Shareholders, Employees, And Managers Conflict, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Can Corporations Be Good Citizens?, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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"The Move To Amend": Making Citizens United Even Worse?, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Participant, "Block That Metaphor? Corporate Personhood Before And After Citizens United", Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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The Slippery Slope To Polygamy And Incest, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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The Progressive Possibility Of Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

In this article, I wish to argue that we find ourselves, at least in the United States and perhaps world-wide, in an unusual and special moment in the intellectual history of corporate law. I believe there is more openness to re-thinking corporate law than any time in a generation. And I do not only mean the parts of corporate law governing executive compensation or the due diligence required when facing a merger proposal. I also mean an openness to discuss the questions of first principle: What are corporations for? Who owns them? What are their obligations to society in general? …

Why Justice Ginsburg Should Step Down, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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The Third Way, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

There is a third way between deference to management on the one hand and strict shareholder primacy on the other: rigorous managerial obligations that extend to all the firm's stakeholders.

The Board As Regulator, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

The best (and a new) way to conceptualize the role of the corporate board is as a regulator, charged with taking into account the interests of various stakeholders and broadly serving the public interest.

Moderator, Progressive Ideas In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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The End Of Contractarianism? Behavioral Economics And Law Of Corporations, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Panelist, “The Second Amendment: What Is It? What Is It Not?”, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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States Rights > Gay Rights, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

By now you've heard from the various news sources that, in this week’s Supreme Court arguments on California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, a majority of justices expressed skepticism over both. So it's imaginable—even probable, if you believe the news—that we will find ourselves at the end of June with DOMA in the junk pile and marriage equality back on the books in California.

But don't put the pink champagne on ice just yet. In both days of argument, the justices spent an extraordinary amount of time dealing with knotty procedural issues. Both cases are complicated by …

Weird Friends Of The Court, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

If you’ve felt encouraged by recent trends in favor of gay rights—including the new Washington Post poll showing 58 percent of Americans support marriage equality—swing over to SCOTUSblog and read some of the nearly 60 “friend of the Court” briefs opposing gay marriage.

On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases—the first on California’s Prop 8, the second on the Defense of Marriage Act—that could determine whether the federal government can define marriage as between a man and a woman, and whether state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. The parties are …

The Company Board As A Regulatory Body, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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The Glocks Are Falling! The Glocks Are Falling!, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

The gun crowd is so paranoid about the erosion of their Second Amendment rights that they make Chicken Little look like an actuary.

The president’s recent gun proposals include initiatives such as expanded background checks, a ban on certain military-type rifles, and limits on the size of magazines. But if you listen to the gun folks, even these tepid proposals are—to quote a past president of the National Rifle Association—“unconstitutional schemes to gut the Second Amendment.” Iowa Senator Charles Grassley accused Obama of thinking “the Second Amendment can be tossed aside.” Any skeptical glance in the direction of that Glock …

Progressive Possibilities For Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Panelist, Mini-Symposium On Tamar Frankel's Book The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Featured Speaker, Demos Monthly Meeting, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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