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Risk-Seeking Governance, Brian J. Broughman -- Professor Of Law, Matthew T. Wansley -- Assoc. Professor Of Law Oct 2023

Risk-Seeking Governance, Brian J. Broughman -- Professor Of Law, Matthew T. Wansley -- Assoc. Professor Of Law

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Venture capitalists (“VCs”) are increasingly abandoning their traditional role as monitors of their portfolio companies. They are giving startup founders more equity and control and promising not to replace them with outside executives. At the same time, startups are taking unprecedented risks—defying regulators, scaling in unsustainable ways, and racking up billion-dollar losses. These trends raise doubts about the dominant model of VC behavior, which claims that VCs actively monitor startups to reduce the risk of moral hazard and adverse selection. We propose a new theory in which VCs use their role in corporate governance to persuade risk-averse founders to pursue …


Foreign Corporations And Local Corporate Policy, Stanley A. Kaplan May 1968

Foreign Corporations And Local Corporate Policy, Stanley A. Kaplan

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This article will not attempt to document the thesis that there are corporate abuses or that an enabling act is less desirable than a regulatory type of statute. It is sufficient to assert or presume that there may be internal corporate abuses and that it may be desirable for some states, if they so choose, to have corporation statutes which are more than enabling acts and which limit or regulate specified aspects of corporate conduct. The question of whether it is feasible for a state to maintain a corporation statute which attempts closely to regulate the internal affairs of the …


William 0. Douglas -- His Work In Policing Bankruptcy Proceedings, John W. Hopkirk Mar 1965

William 0. Douglas -- His Work In Policing Bankruptcy Proceedings, John W. Hopkirk

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William 0. Douglas, while associated with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the mid-nineteen thirties, was responsible for a study of methods and procedures of corporate reorganization. By examining this area of Douglas' work, we can compare the position on corporate reorganization which the Justice developed as an administrative official for the New Deal with his later consideration of the same problems as a member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Through this comparison we can observe a number of basic attitudes which were manifested by Douglas both before and since he has joined the Court. Important among …


Competition Versus Regulation: The Agricultural Exemption In The Motor Carrier Act, Carl H. Fulda Mar 1958

Competition Versus Regulation: The Agricultural Exemption In The Motor Carrier Act, Carl H. Fulda

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Transportation of passengers or property by motor carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce has been subject to federal regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1935. At that time motor carriers in intrastate commerce were regulated in all the states of the Union by state commissions which controlled entry into the industry, rates, and safety of operations, but there was no comparable federal regulation. The Federal Motor Carrier Act of 1935, now part II of the Interstate Commerce Act,' was intended to fill this gap by creating a federal regulatory scheme similar to that provided by the states. In …


A Symposium On Arbitration, Sylvan Gotshal Jun 1957

A Symposium On Arbitration, Sylvan Gotshal

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Twenty years ago an article on arbitration would have been an oddity in a law review. Significant of the change in thinking with regard to arbitration on the part of attorneys, bar associations, and law schools is the fact that within the past few months several law journals and reviews have had major articles devoted to various aspects of arbitration. This new literature in the legal field serves as notice to the practitioner and to the law student that arbitration has come of age. The editors of the Vanderbilt Law Review and the faculty of the Law School are, therefore, …