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The Many Faces Of Chapter 11: A Reply To Professor Baird, A. Mechele Dickerson
The Many Faces Of Chapter 11: A Reply To Professor Baird, A. Mechele Dickerson
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Corporations, Society And The State: A Defense Of The Corporate Tax, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Corporations, Society And The State: A Defense Of The Corporate Tax, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Law & Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003-2009
This article attempts to provide the first comprehensive rationale for defending the current corporate income tax. It argues that the usual reasons given for the tax (primarily as an indirect way of taxing shareholders, or alternatively as a form of benefit tax) are inadequate. It then explains what the original rationale to adopt this tax was in 1909, namely to regulate managerial power, and that this rationale stems from the real view of the corporation, which was the dominant view throughout the many transformations underwent by the corporate form from Roman times to the present. Turning to normative argument, the …
Independent Legal Significance, Good Faith, And The Interpretation Of Venture Capital Contracts, D. Gordon Smith
Independent Legal Significance, Good Faith, And The Interpretation Of Venture Capital Contracts, D. Gordon Smith
Faculty Scholarship
Venture capital contracts are inherently incomplete. When interpreting such contracts, courts could deal with the expectations of parties formally by inquiring only about the plain meaning of the contract or qualitatively by enforcing the presumed expectations of the parties, regardless of whether those expectations are expressed in the contract. The Delaware courts have opted for a formal approach. In doing so, they appear to be engaged in an effort to force contracting parties toward completeness. While the duty of good faith appears to respond to the inevitable incompleteness of contracts, the courts largely ignore this duty in preferred stock cases. …
Lawyers In The Moral Maze , Mark A. Sargent
Lawyers In The Moral Maze , Mark A. Sargent
Working Paper Series
This article overviews the various forms of lawyer complicity in illegal or immoral behavior by corporate managers in the corporate scandals of the last three years, but focuses primarily on the question of why lawyers so often seemed willing to engage in or ignore behavior that presumably violated their own personal moral codes (whether religious or secular) as well as their professional role morality. The article draws on Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes (1988) for an answer derived from the sociology of corporate bureaucracies. Jackall's case studies of corporate managers found that managers adhered to the moral "rules-in-use" developed in their …
A New Player In The Boardroom: The Emergence Of The Independent Directors' Counsel, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Edward B. Rock
A New Player In The Boardroom: The Emergence Of The Independent Directors' Counsel, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Edward B. Rock
All Faculty Scholarship
Over the last thirty years, the independent directors have occasionally been represented by independent counsel. Instances include: special litigation committees reviewing derivative suits; independent committees in parent subsidiary mergers and MBOs; and internal investigations of misconduct. We predict that, with the additional legal requirements imposed on independent directors by the Sarbanes Oxley Act and related changes to SEC rules and Stock Exchange listing requirements, the independent directors, especially those on the Audit Committee, increasingly will be represented on a continuing basis by independent legal counsel. Out of this will emerge a new figure in the board room: the Independent Directors' …
The Unfortunate Life And Merciful Death Of The Avoidance Powers Under Section 103 Of The Durbin-Delahunt Bill: What Were They Thinking?, (With C. Mooney, Jr.)., Steven L. Harris
The Unfortunate Life And Merciful Death Of The Avoidance Powers Under Section 103 Of The Durbin-Delahunt Bill: What Were They Thinking?, (With C. Mooney, Jr.)., Steven L. Harris
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Whistleblowing And The Public Director: Countering Corporate Inner Circles, James A. Fanto
Whistleblowing And The Public Director: Countering Corporate Inner Circles, James A. Fanto
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Subtle Hazards Revisited: The Corruption Of A Financial Holding Company By A Corporate Client's Inner Circle, James A. Fanto
Subtle Hazards Revisited: The Corruption Of A Financial Holding Company By A Corporate Client's Inner Circle, James A. Fanto
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The European Origins And The Spread Of The Corporate Board Of Directors, Franklin A. Gevurtz
The European Origins And The Spread Of The Corporate Board Of Directors, Franklin A. Gevurtz
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
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Earnings Management And The Business Judgment Rule: An Essay On Recent Corporate Scandals, Franklin A. Gevurtz
Earnings Management And The Business Judgment Rule: An Essay On Recent Corporate Scandals, Franklin A. Gevurtz
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
The Historical And Political Origins Of The Corporate Board Of Directors, Franklin A. Gevurtz
The Historical And Political Origins Of The Corporate Board Of Directors, Franklin A. Gevurtz
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
Learning Business Law By Doing It: Real Transactions In Law School Clinics, Eric J. Gouvin
Learning Business Law By Doing It: Real Transactions In Law School Clinics, Eric J. Gouvin
Faculty Scholarship
This Article discusses the business clinic movement and how legal educators view them as being an excellent vehicle for inculcating the values and practices that business lawyers hold dear. Business clinics may help students better appreciate the challenges of business lawyering, which they sometimes misunderstand as merely a forms practice. The Author believes that by putting students in the middle of real transactions, they gain a deeper understanding of the subtleties of making a transaction come together.
Legal And Ethical Duties Of Lawyers After Sarbanes-Oxley, Roger C. Cramton, George M. Cohen, Susan P. Koniak
Legal And Ethical Duties Of Lawyers After Sarbanes-Oxley, Roger C. Cramton, George M. Cohen, Susan P. Koniak
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Achieving The Double Bottom Line: A Framework For Corporations Seeking To Deliver Profits And Public Services, Lisa M. Fairfax
Achieving The Double Bottom Line: A Framework For Corporations Seeking To Deliver Profits And Public Services, Lisa M. Fairfax
Faculty Scholarship
Achieving the Double Bottom Line: A Framework for Corporations Seeking to Deliver Profits and Public Services argues that many people who object to for-profit corporations that deliver public services, such as kindergarten through 12th grade education or foster care, have greatly exaggerated the extent to which the for-profit regime will compel such corporations to subordinate the delivery of those services to financial considerations. Because of this over-exaggeration, these opponents have not focused on designing a framework that would assist these entities in meeting their double bottom line—achieving profit for their shareholders while also delivering a high quality public service. The …
Experiments In Comparative Corporate Law: The Recent Italian Reform And The Dubious Virtues Of A Market For Rules In The Absence Of Effective Regulatory Competition, Marco Ventoruzzo
Journal Articles
The article addresses a sweeping Reform of corporate law which was enacted by the Italian government in 2003 and came into effect on January 1, 2004. The new statutory regulation significantly increases freedom of contract in corporate law, relying on the idea that the development of an efficient market for rules will allow the "natural selection" of the rules that better suit the need of the different stakeholders. Together - and to some extent to compensate for - this greater freedom of contract, new protections for minority shareholders have also been implemented. The reform also imports into the Italian legal …
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Fiduciary Duties, Lyman P. Q. Johnson, Mark A. Sides
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Fiduciary Duties, Lyman P. Q. Johnson, Mark A. Sides
Scholarly Articles
This article explores the implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 for fiduciary duty analysis in corporate law. The article examines those provisions of the Act, and recent SEC, NYSE and NASDAQ rules, that most pointedly bear on corporate governance. The article develops in detail exactly how Sarbanes-Oxley and those rules may alter state fiduciary duty law. Sarbanes-Oxley makes unprecedented federal inroads into the area of corporate governance and, although the fact of federal incursion into corporate governance is important in its own right, the more intriguing issue concerns the eventual interplay between federal and state law. Specifically, on various …
The Reporter's Rejoinder, Daniel S. Kleinberger
The Reporter's Rejoinder, Daniel S. Kleinberger
Faculty Scholarship
The word "rejoinder" connotes a reply to criticism, and that connotation sets the scope of this short essay. This Rejoinder will leave aside (albeit with thanks) the articles that explain the background to, the context for, or particular aspects of the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001). Instead, this Rejoinder will focus on the three articles that purport to find a blemish (Professor Bishop), a general theoretical deficiency (Mr. Callison and Dean Vestal), or a fundamental misconception (Professor Ribstein) in the new Act.
A User's Guide To The New Uniform Limited Partnership Act, Daniel S. Kleinberger
A User's Guide To The New Uniform Limited Partnership Act, Daniel S. Kleinberger
Faculty Scholarship
The shelf life on uniform entity acts seems to be decreasing. The original Uniform Partnership Act (UPA) lasted eight decades, and the original Uniform Limited Partnership Act (ULPA (1916)) lasted six. In contrast, the 1976 Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (RULPA (1976)) warranted major revisions after just nine years (RULPA (1985)), and only sixteen years later NCCUSL recommended to the states that they adopt ULPA (2001) to replace RULPA in toto. NCCUSL's Revised Uniform [General] Partnership Act - RUPA - was first approved in 1992 and went through five official versions in its first five years of existence. NCCUSL's Uniform …
Diversity Jurisdiction For Llcs? Basically, Forget About It, Daniel S. Kleinberger, Carter G. Bishop
Diversity Jurisdiction For Llcs? Basically, Forget About It, Daniel S. Kleinberger, Carter G. Bishop
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Charging Orders And The New Uniform Limited Partnership Act: Dispelling The Rumors Of Disaster, Daniel S. Kleinberger, Carter G. Bishop, Thomas Geu
Charging Orders And The New Uniform Limited Partnership Act: Dispelling The Rumors Of Disaster, Daniel S. Kleinberger, Carter G. Bishop, Thomas Geu
Faculty Scholarship
Last year, an article published in this magazine focused on the charging order as "the Exclusive Remedy Against a Partnership Interest" and announced the "[s]hocking [r]evelation" that ULPA (2001)--the new Uniform Limited Partnership Act--undermines the "exclusive remedy" limitation on charging orders. The authors asserted categorically that, "from an asset protection perspective, the 2001 Act is considerably less protective of a partner's partnership interest than the 1976 Act." Elizabeth M. Schurig & Amy P. Jetel, A Charging Order Is the Exclusive Remedy Against a Partnership Interest: Fact or Fiction?, Prob. & Prop. 57, 58 (Nov./Dec. 2003).
As this article will show, …
Capitalism And Freedom -- For Whom? Feminist Legal Theory And Progressive Corporate Law,, Kellye Y. Testy
Capitalism And Freedom -- For Whom? Feminist Legal Theory And Progressive Corporate Law,, Kellye Y. Testy
Articles
Beginning at least in the 1980s, the version of corporate law and governance prevailing in the U.S. (as well as widely exported to other nations) was a radically privatized one, treating the corporation as a contractual arrangement for maximizing shortterm share price in a laissez faire global marketplace. Though many robust and varied social movements, many of which were bolstered by the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, have been and are engaged in challenging this hegemony from many angles, few have found their way into corporate law reform. That is not to say, however, that there are no progressive legal …
Reforming Corporate Governance: What History Can Teach Us, Margaret M. Blair
Reforming Corporate Governance: What History Can Teach Us, Margaret M. Blair
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In this Article, I turn to the history of corporate law for insight into the role that the corporate form plays in the organization of business enterprises. I then draw implications from this history for thinking about circumstances and situations in which corporate directors should have unimpeded control over business decisions, versus situations in which shareholders should have more input and control over business decisions. In Part I, I review historical evidence of the rapid growth in demand for the corporate form to organize businesses in the United States during the early nineteenth century. I compare the law that governed …
Standards Of Conduct And Standards Of Review In Corporate Law: The Need For Closer Alignment, Gregory S. Crespi
Standards Of Conduct And Standards Of Review In Corporate Law: The Need For Closer Alignment, Gregory S. Crespi
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This article examines the arguments in support of maintaining a divergence in duty of care law between the articulated negligence standard of conduct and the gross negligence standard of review, with particular emphasis on their application to the corporate fiduciary duty of care context. The author provides a detailed discussion of the arguments presented by Meir Dan-Cohen, while also focusing on articles by Richard Singer, David Phillips, and Melvin Eisenberg. After assessing the existing scholarship justifying divergent standards in the context of corporate law, the author concludes that a single, clearly articulated standard which both defines the scope of permissible …
The Quiet Transformation Of Corporate Law, Mark J. Loewenstein
The Quiet Transformation Of Corporate Law, Mark J. Loewenstein
Publications
No abstract provided.
The Globalization (Americanization?) Of Executive Pay, Randall Thomas, Brian R. Cheffins
The Globalization (Americanization?) Of Executive Pay, Randall Thomas, Brian R. Cheffins
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In the United States, the remuneration packages of top executives are characterized by a strong emphasis on pay-for-performance and by a highly lucrative "upside." There is much discussion of the possibility that executive pay practices will globalize in accordance with this pattern. This Article assesses whether such convergence is likely to occur. After surveying briefly the key components of managerial remuneration and after examining the essential elements of the "U.S. pay paradigm," the Article considers market-oriented dynamics that could constitute a "global compensation imperative." These include wider dispersion of share ownership, more cross-border hiring of executives, growing international merger and …
The Public And Private Faces Of Derivative Lawsuits, Randall S. Thomas, Robert B. Thompson
The Public And Private Faces Of Derivative Lawsuits, Randall S. Thomas, Robert B. Thompson
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Derivative suits, long the principal vehicle for discussions about representative litigation in corporate and securities law, now share the stage with younger cousins - securities fraud class actions and state law fiduciary duty class actions. At the same time alternative governance vehicles - independent directors, auditors and other reforms that have followed in the wake of Enron - potentially diminish the relative place of litigation such as derivative suits. This article presents data from all derivative suits filed in Delaware over a two-year period. We find a relatively small number, certainly as compared to fiduciary class action and securities fraud …
Worker Ownership In Enron's Wake - Revisiting A Community Development Tactic, Peter R. Pitegoff
Worker Ownership In Enron's Wake - Revisiting A Community Development Tactic, Peter R. Pitegoff
Faculty Publications
Worker ownership of business enterprise has long been touted as a vehicle for community economic development. Employee stock ownership plans in leveraged buy-outs, ESOPs and broad-based stock options in going concerns, and worker cooperatives in selected sectors - the experience has varied widely in goals, method, and outcome.
This Article reflects on the continued utility of worker ownership as a component of community development and calls attention to contrasts with conventional corporate governance and goals. Rather than an end in itself or just another way of doing business, worker ownership can be a vital element of a broader job creation, …
Law's Signal: A Cueing Theory Of Law In Market Transition, Robert B. Ahdieh
Law's Signal: A Cueing Theory Of Law In Market Transition, Robert B. Ahdieh
Faculty Scholarship
Securities markets are commonly assumed to spring forth at the intersection of an adequate supply of, and a healthy demand for, investment capital. In recent years, however, seemingly failed market transitions - the failure of new markets to emerge and of existing markets to evolve - have called this assumption into question. From the developed economies of Germany and Japan to the developing countries of central and eastern Europe, securities markets have exhibited some inability to take root. The failure of U.S. securities markets, and particularly the New York Stock Exchange, to make greater use of computerized trading, communications, and …
Uncorporated Professionals, John Romley, Eric L. Talley
Uncorporated Professionals, John Romley, Eric L. Talley
Faculty Scholarship
Professional service providers who wish to organize as multi-person firms have historically been limited to the partnership form. Such organizational forms trade the benefit of risk diversification off against the costs of diluted incentives and liability exposure in choosing their optimal size. More recently, states have permitted limited-liability entities that combine the simplicity, flexibility and tax advantages of a partnership with the liability shield of a corporation. We develop a game theoretic model of professional-firm organization that integrates the provision of incentives in a multi-person firm with the choice of business form. We then test the model's predictions with a …
Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation And Securities Litigation, Eric L. Talley, Gudrun Johnsen
Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation And Securities Litigation, Eric L. Talley, Gudrun Johnsen
Faculty Scholarship
It is generally accepted that good corporate governance, executive compensation and the threat of litigation are all important mechanisms for incentivizing managers of public corporations. While there are significant and robust literatures analyzing each of these policy instruments in isolation, their mutual relationship and interaction has received somewhat less attention. Such neglect is mildly surprising in light of a strong intuition that the three devices are structurally related to one another (either as complements or substitutes). In this paper, we construct an agency cost model of the firm in which corporate governance protections, executive compensation levels, and litigation incentives are …