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Corporate Control And The Need For Meaningful Board Accountability, Michelle Harner
Corporate Control And The Need For Meaningful Board Accountability, Michelle Harner
Michelle M. Harner
Corporations are vulnerable to the greed, self-dealing and conflicts of those in control of the corporation. Courts historically have regulated this potential abuse by designating the board of directors and senior management as fiduciaries. In some instances, however, shareholders, creditors or others outside of corporate management may influence corporate decisions and, in the process, extract corporate value. Courts generally address this type of corporate damage in one of two ways: they designate controlling shareholders as corporate fiduciaries and they characterize creditors, customers and others as contract parties with no fiduciary duties. The traditional roles of corporate shareholders and creditors may …
Ignoring The Writing On The Wall: The Role Of Enterprise Risk Management In The Economic Crisis, Michelle M. Harner
Ignoring The Writing On The Wall: The Role Of Enterprise Risk Management In The Economic Crisis, Michelle M. Harner
Michelle M. Harner
Enterprise risk management (ERM) targets overall corporate strategy and, when implemented correctly, can manage a corporation’s risk appetite and exposure. When ignored or underutilized, it can contribute to a corporation’s demise. In fact, many commentators point to ERM failures as contributing to the severity of the 2008 economic crisis. This essay examines the different approaches to ERM adopted by financial institutions affected by the 2008 economic crisis and how ERM contributed to the survival or failure of those firms. It then considers ERM in the broader context of corporate governance generally. This discussion reflects on ERM techniques for corporate boards …
The Search For An Unbiased Fiduciary In Corporate Reorganizations, Michelle M. Harner
The Search For An Unbiased Fiduciary In Corporate Reorganizations, Michelle M. Harner
Michelle M. Harner
When a company experiences financial distress, a control contest often follows. Management fights to remain in control of the company, and shareholders, creditors and others try to influence management’s exercise of that control—or wrest it away. This is not a new phenomenon. The degree of influence now exerted by corporate stakeholders in the distressed context, however, is strikingly different than in the past. Recent headlines highlight that stakeholder control issues are at the forefront of financially-distressed situations large and small. The U.S. government, as creditor, dictated the terms of Chrysler’s and General Motors’ bankruptcies. It also demanded and received preferred …
Virtual Intermediaries: Consumption Tax Problems In Japan, Europe, And The United States - The Case Of The Virtual Travel Agent, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Virtual Intermediaries: Consumption Tax Problems In Japan, Europe, And The United States - The Case Of The Virtual Travel Agent, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
Marketplace technology is (inadvertently) chipping away at the effectiveness of consumption taxes – the Japanese Consumption Tax (CT), the European value added tax (VAT), and the American sales tax (ST) are all affected. Frequently a technology-patch or a law change can repair the tax-damage, but sometimes even though a patch or a change is known the design of the levy (or the politics behind the design) impedes application. This paper assesses these consumption taxes by considering the impact that virtual travel agents have had on revenue yields. The paper draws specific conclusions for the Japanese CT, because this consumption tax …
Analysis Of The Legality Of The Iraq War 2003, Nikola S. Georgiev
Analysis Of The Legality Of The Iraq War 2003, Nikola S. Georgiev
Nikola S Georgiev
Analysis of the legality of the Iraq War 2003
Bonding Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
Bonding Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
William & Mary Law Review
Limited liability is considered a “birthright” of corporations. The concept is entrenched in legal theory, and it is a fixed reality of the political economy. But it remains controversial. Scholarly debate has been engaged in absolute terms of defending the rule or advocating its abrogation. Though compelling, these polar positions, often expressed in abstract arguments, are associated with disquieting effects. Without limited liability, efficiency may be severely compromised. With it, involuntary tort creditors bear some of the cost of an enterprise. Most other proposals for reforming limited liability have been incremental, such as modifying veil-piercing. However, neither absolutism nor marginalism …
Teaching Specialized Legal Research: Business Associations, Kris Helge, Terri Lynn Helge
Teaching Specialized Legal Research: Business Associations, Kris Helge, Terri Lynn Helge
Faculty Scholarship
Business associations are a complex substantive topic that can be included in an advanced legal research course that teaches students sophisticated research, writing, and citation skills. This article presents the basic substantive law regarding business associations necessary to deliver instruction about advanced legal research, writing, and citation. This article also offers a model syllabus with suggested sources and assignments for students. These research assignments require students to perform tasks such as citing primary and secondary sources, learning advanced research skills using loose-leaf materials, assimilating information from multiple sources into cogent narratives, locating information using various electronic resources, digests, and other …
Assessing The Chrysler Bankruptcy, Mark J. Roe, David Skeel
Assessing The Chrysler Bankruptcy, Mark J. Roe, David Skeel
Michigan Law Review
Chrysler entered and exited bankruptcy in forty-two days, making it one of the fastest major industrial bankruptcies in memory. It entered as a company widely thought to be ripe for liquidation if left on its own, obtained massive funding from the United States Treasury, and exited via a pseudo-sale of its main assets to a new government-funded entity. The unevenness of the compensation to prior creditors raised concerns in capital markets, which we evaluate here. We conclude that the Chrysler bankruptcy cannot be understood as complying with good bankruptcy practice, that it resurrected discredited practices long thought interred in the …
Bond Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
Bond Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
UF Law Faculty Publications
Limited liability is considered a “birthright” of corporations. The concept is entrenched in legal theory, and it is a fixed reality of the political economy. But it remains controversial. Scholarly debate has been engaged in absolute terms of defending the rule or advocating its abrogation. Though compelling, these polar positions, often expressed in abstract arguments, are associated with disquieting effects. Without limited liability, efficiency may be severely compromised. With it, involuntary tort creditors bear some of the cost of an enterprise. Most other proposals for reforming limited liability have been incremental, such as modifying veil piercing. However, neither absolutism nor …
Zappers - Retail Vat Fraud, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Zappers - Retail Vat Fraud, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
Zappers skim cash sales at retail. Zappers are add-on programs used by merchants with electronic cash registers (ECRs) or point-of-sale (POS) systems. Zappers are smart and selective. They do not skim all sales, and they never skim credit card transactions.
Although they are present in every jurisdiction, Zappers appear to be most widely used in developed economies that combine high levels of cash sales with high rates of consumption tax. Sweden, for example, has a cash-intensive economy, one of the world’s highest VAT rates (25%), and also reports that 70% of the ECRs in the country are either “… constructed …
The Implications Of Citizens United On Corporate Speech Rights And Corporate Power, Kent Greenfield
The Implications Of Citizens United On Corporate Speech Rights And Corporate Power, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
No abstract provided.
Should Firms Be Allowed To Indemnify Their Employees For Sanctions?, Wallace P. Mullin, Christopher M. Snyder
Should Firms Be Allowed To Indemnify Their Employees For Sanctions?, Wallace P. Mullin, Christopher M. Snyder
Dartmouth Scholarship
Policymakers have questioned whether firms should be allowed to indemnify their employees for personal sanctions for corporate crimes. This article provides the first formal analysis of this form of indemnification. Targeting employees with unindemnifiable sanctions carries the social cost of exposing employees of law-abiding firms to the risk of mistaken government prosecution. Deterrence is typically achieved more efficiently by sanctioning the firm alone. We find the circumstances under which the government shouldadditionally sanction employees to be quite limited and the circumstances under which the government should ban indemnification of these sanctions to be more limited still. One circumstance is when …
Derecho De La Seguridad Social En México, Bruno L. Costantini García
Derecho De La Seguridad Social En México, Bruno L. Costantini García
Bruno L. Costantini García
Breve presentación del Derecho de la Segurida Social en México.
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Is It Necessary To Learn The Language Of Another Culture In Order To Really Understand That Culture? What Are The Implications For Selecting And Training Expatriate Managers?, Nikola S. Georgiev
Is It Necessary To Learn The Language Of Another Culture In Order To Really Understand That Culture? What Are The Implications For Selecting And Training Expatriate Managers?, Nikola S. Georgiev
Nikola S Georgiev
Is it necessary to learn the language of another culture in order to really understand that culture? What are the implications for selecting and training expatriate managers?
Re-Enchanting The Corporation, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
Re-Enchanting The Corporation, Lyman P.Q. Johnson
William & Mary Business Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beyond Shareholder Value: Normative Standards For Sustainable Corporate Governance, Robert Sprague
Beyond Shareholder Value: Normative Standards For Sustainable Corporate Governance, Robert Sprague
William & Mary Business Law Review
This Article explores whether the modern corporate governance model is sustainable. For many corporations, particularly large ones, there is a separation between ownership and management, with a management emphasis on short-term gains at the expense of long-term sustainability. This Article explores the role of corporate directors, particularly vis-a-vis shareholders, from an interdisciplinary perspective, analyzing legal case law as well as legal, management, and finance literature. This Article explores emerging trends in expanding notions of corporate governance that incorporate concerns beyond just shareholders, recognizing the interrelationship between business and society. It is suggested that in order to remain viable and competitive, …
To Be Or Not To Be? Citizens United And The Corporate Form, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
To Be Or Not To Be? Citizens United And The Corporate Form, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Law & Economics Working Papers
In Citizens United vs. FEC, the Supreme Court struck down a Federal ban on direct corporate expenditures on political campaigns. The decision has been widely criticized and praised as a matter of First Amendment law. But it is also interesting as another step in the evolution of our legal views of the corporation. The thesis of this Article is that by viewing Citizens United through the prism of theories about the corporate form, it is possible to understand why both the majority and the dissent departed from previous Supreme Court cases on the First Amendment rights of corporations, and to …
False Imprisonment As A Tort In India, Hari Priya
False Imprisonment As A Tort In India, Hari Priya
Hari Priya
The tort of false imprisonment is one of the most severe forms of human rights violation, and this paper aims to define and to understand the concept of false imprisonment as a tort in India. It also seeks to know about the evolution of the notion of false imprisonment as a tort, with reference to Indian and foreign cases, and understand who and when can one be held liable for the tort of false imprisonment. It further deals with the remedies available for the said tort.
Populist Retribution And International Competition In Financial Services Regulation, Adam C. Pritchard
Populist Retribution And International Competition In Financial Services Regulation, Adam C. Pritchard
Law & Economics Working Papers
This essay compares the current effort to reform financial services regulation with the regulatory initiatives that come out of the Great Depression. Unlike the 1930s, policymakers today must account for the impact of regulatory competition in crafting responses to the financial crisis. The available evidence suggests that jurisdictional competition is no match for the forces of populist retribution in modern democratic states.
Co2 Mtic Fraud -- Technologically Exploiting The Eu Vat (Again), Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Co2 Mtic Fraud -- Technologically Exploiting The Eu Vat (Again), Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
On February 1, 2010 Algirdas Šemeta is expected to be confirmed as the next European commissioner for taxation, customs union, audit and anti-fraud. If his nomination passes a confirmation hearing at the European Parliament he will succeed László Kovács. At the top of Mr. Šemeta’s list of things requiring attention should be MTIC fraud in tradable CO2 permits. Political and fiscal realities make CO2 MTIC fraud a top priority.
CO2 MTIC is a technology-driven fraud that takes advantage of the same weaknesses in the EU VAT that have become well known in the cell phone and computer chip trade. The …
A Campaign Funding Mess, Kent Greenfield
A Way Out Of The Citizens United Mess?, Kent Greenfield
A Way Out Of The Citizens United Mess?, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
No abstract provided.
Quebec's Sales Recording Module (Srm): Fighting The Zapper, Phantomware, And Tax Fraud With Technology, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Quebec's Sales Recording Module (Srm): Fighting The Zapper, Phantomware, And Tax Fraud With Technology, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Corporate Law In The Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008: Judicial Autonomy In A Contemporary Authoritarian State, Nicholas C. Howson
Corporate Law In The Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008: Judicial Autonomy In A Contemporary Authoritarian State, Nicholas C. Howson
Law & Economics Working Papers
In late 2005 China adopted a largely rewritten Company Law that radically increased the role of courts. This study, based on a review of more than 1000 Company Law-related disputes reported between 1992 and 2008 and extensive interactions with PRC officials and sitting judges, evaluates how the Shanghai People’s Court system has fared over 15 years in corporate law adjudication. Although the Shanghai People’s Courts show generally increasing technical competence and even intimations of political independence, their path toward institutional autonomy is inconsistent. Through 2006, the Shanghai Court system demonstrated significantly increased autonomy. After 2006 and enactment of the new …
The Decade Of Disaster, Renee Jones
Organizational Liability And The Tension Between Corporate And Criminal Law, Miriam H. Baer
Organizational Liability And The Tension Between Corporate And Criminal Law, Miriam H. Baer
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Lecture At Fordham Corporate Law Center By William Dudley, President Of Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, William Dudley
Lecture At Fordham Corporate Law Center By William Dudley, President Of Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, William Dudley
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Risks And Hedges Of Providing Liquidity In Complex Securities: The Impact Of Insider Trading On Options Market Makers, Stanislav Dolgopolov
Risks And Hedges Of Providing Liquidity In Complex Securities: The Impact Of Insider Trading On Options Market Makers, Stanislav Dolgopolov
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Financial Statement Reporting Of Pending Litigation: Attorneys, Auditors, And Difference Of Opinions, W. R. Koprowski, Steven J. Arsenault, Michael Cipriano
Financial Statement Reporting Of Pending Litigation: Attorneys, Auditors, And Difference Of Opinions, W. R. Koprowski, Steven J. Arsenault, Michael Cipriano
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Llcs Are The New King Of The Hill: An Empirical Study Of The Number Of New Llcs, Corporations And Lps Formed In The United States Between 2004-2007 And How Llcs Were Taxed For Tax Years 2002-2006, Rodney D. Chrisman
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.