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Vol. 42, No. 2, September 23, 1991, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Study: Minority Professors Less Likely to Receive Tenure •Students Give up Lavish Flybacks to Help Homeless •Kamisar, Kahn Debate Fourth Amendment Issues •Sanor Pitches RG Ball to Mandel •Letters to the Editor •To Be or Not to Be… PC: An Essay on Diversity •The Politics of a Judicial Nomination •Business School Students Learn "Global Citizenship" •Danilenko Describes Soviet Union's Many Problems •Reflections on a Summer Past •The Docket •The Madden Rule •Intramural Sports •Sarah Bernhard and That Singing Feeling •Thoughts from the Armchair... •Dr. Manitsky Gets Tough •Law in the Raw

The European Alternative To Uniformity In Corporation Laws, Alfred F. Conard

Michigan Law Review

Although the European Communities chose many patterns of business law that were parallel to the American, they deliberately rejected the American freedom of each state to frame its corporation law to suit itself. They decided to impose not complete uniformity, but a degree of "coordination" of "equivalent safeguards" that they deemed appropriate to the existence of an economic union. Leading commentators have described the process as "harmonization."

The decision to coordinate stimulates reflection on the relative merits of the American system of giving states a free choice of corporation regimes, restricted only marginally by federal securities regulation, and the European …