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Seeking An Objective For Regulating Insider Trading Through Texas Gulf Sulphur, James D. Cox
Seeking An Objective For Regulating Insider Trading Through Texas Gulf Sulphur, James D. Cox
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Data summarized in the opening of this article document that inside trading is a growth industry. And, as deals get ever bigger, the growth curve becomes steeper as more the data confirms intuition that the more who know about a good thing the more who will seek to harvest its benefits. Even though insider trading appears to have thrived during the fifty years after Texas Gulf Sulphur, we gather in this symposium to celebrate the decision. But why? As developed below, the Second Circuit’s landmark decision gave way to the Supreme Court’s erection of a fiduciary framework that this article …
Criminally Bad Management, Samuel W. Buell
Criminally Bad Management, Samuel W. Buell
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Because of their leverage over employees, corporate managers are prime targets for incentives to control corporate crime, even when managers do not themselves commit crimes. Moreover, the collective actions of corporate management — producing what is sometimes referred to as corporate culture — can be the cause of corporate crime, not just a locus of the failure to control it. Because civil liability and private compensation arrangements have limited effects on management behavior — and because the problem is, after all, crime — criminal law is often expected to intervene. This handbook chapter offers a functional explanation for corporate criminal …
Fiduciary Principles In Agency Law, Deborah A. Demott
Fiduciary Principles In Agency Law, Deborah A. Demott
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