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The Separation Of Ownership And Control In Modem Corporations: Shareholder Democracy Or Shareholder Republic? A Commentary On Dalia Tsuk Mitchell's Shareholders As Proxies. The Contours Of Shareholder Democracy, Lucas E. Morel
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Comment On Brian R. Cheffins, Dividends As A Substitute For Corporate Law: The Separation Of Ownership And Control In The United Kingdom, Lynne L. Dallas
Comment On Brian R. Cheffins, Dividends As A Substitute For Corporate Law: The Separation Of Ownership And Control In The United Kingdom, Lynne L. Dallas
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Dividends As A Substitute For Corporate Law: The Separation Of Ownership And Control In The United Kingdom, Brian R. Cheffins
Dividends As A Substitute For Corporate Law: The Separation Of Ownership And Control In The United Kingdom, Brian R. Cheffins
Washington and Lee Law Review
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The Seductive Comparison Of Shareholder And Civic Democracy, Usha Rodrigues
The Seductive Comparison Of Shareholder And Civic Democracy, Usha Rodrigues
Washington and Lee Law Review
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The Transplantation Of The Legal Discourse On Corporate Personality Theories: From German Codification To British Political Pluralism And American Big Business, Ron Harris
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Social Conceptions Of The Corporation: Insights From The History Of Shareholder Voting Rights, Colleen A. Dunlavy
Social Conceptions Of The Corporation: Insights From The History Of Shareholder Voting Rights, Colleen A. Dunlavy
Washington and Lee Law Review
The diversity of voting rules in today's corporations indicates that power is distributed among shareholders in a great variety of ways, but current theories of the corporation have little to say about this diversity. For insight into the significance of different ways of distributing power among shareholders and the social conceptions of the corporation that they imply, this Article develops a historically-groundedframeworfko r evaluating the political import of shareholder voting rights. Sketching out the history of shareholder voting rights since the early nineteenth century, it shows how the distinctive meaning of the twentieth-century term "shareholder democracy" grew out of the …
The Relevance Of Corporate Theory To Corporate And Economic Development: Comment On The Transplantation Of The Legal Discourse On Corporate Personality Theories, Lawrence E. Mitchell
The Relevance Of Corporate Theory To Corporate And Economic Development: Comment On The Transplantation Of The Legal Discourse On Corporate Personality Theories, Lawrence E. Mitchell
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Shareholders As Proxies: The Contours Of Shareholder Democracy, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
Shareholders As Proxies: The Contours Of Shareholder Democracy, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comment: Corporate Governance And The "D-Word", Thomas W. Joo
Comment: Corporate Governance And The "D-Word", Thomas W. Joo
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Shareholder Democracy And The Economic Purpose Of The Corporation, Donald J. Smythe
Shareholder Democracy And The Economic Purpose Of The Corporation, Donald J. Smythe
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Personification In Three Legal Cultures: The Case Of The Conception Of The Corporate Unit, Gregory A. Mark
Personification In Three Legal Cultures: The Case Of The Conception Of The Corporate Unit, Gregory A. Mark
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Take It Slow: A Novel Concept In The Life Of Sarbanes-Oxley, D. Skylar Rosenbloom
Take It Slow: A Novel Concept In The Life Of Sarbanes-Oxley, D. Skylar Rosenbloom
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Faith And Faithfulness In Corporate Theory, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
Faith And Faithfulness In Corporate Theory, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
Scholarly Articles
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The Audit Committee's Ethical And Legal Responsibilities: The State Law Perspective, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
The Audit Committee's Ethical And Legal Responsibilities: The State Law Perspective, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
Scholarly Articles
This paper provides a state law perspective on the post-scandal, post-reform audit committee. Federal law, along with NYSE and Nasdaq (together, "SRO") rules, recently have made sweeping changes in corporate governance, including numerous provisions that bear on audit committees. These changes are unprecedented and dramatic, and rightly have received wide attention and careful study. Certain basic principles underlying the governance functions and duties of audit committees, however, originate in, and are still determined by, state law. Moreover, state law applies to all corporations; federal law and SRO rules on audit committees apply only to those companies coming under federal law …