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Tax Policy And Changes To Subchapter C, Willard B. Taylor
Tax Policy And Changes To Subchapter C, Willard B. Taylor
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Perspectives On Choice Of Law For Corporate Internal Affairs, Deborah A. Demott
Perspectives On Choice Of Law For Corporate Internal Affairs, Deborah A. Demott
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Bias In The Boardroom: Psychological Foundations And Legal Implications Of Corporate Cohesion, James D. Cox, Harry L. Munsinger
Bias In The Boardroom: Psychological Foundations And Legal Implications Of Corporate Cohesion, James D. Cox, Harry L. Munsinger
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Corporate Wars And Choice Of Law, P. John Kozyris
Corporate Wars And Choice Of Law, P. John Kozyris
Duke Law Journal
On the occasion of the increase in corporate wars and takeover battles, the author examines the constitutional and conflict of laws issues involved in choosing the law to govern the internal affairs aspects of the defensive and offensive strategies and tactics used in the various confrontations. This leads to a review of recent judicial and legislative developments, including the antitakeover statutes, to an examination of the traditional and the new conflict-of-laws methodologies as they affect internal corporate affairs, and to an analysis of the implications of the due process, full faith and credit, and, especially, the commerce clauses of the …
The Birth Of A Public Corporation, Jon C. Teaford
The Birth Of A Public Corporation, Jon C. Teaford
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870. by Hendrik Hartog
Transitional Legal Practice And Professional Ideology, Bryant G. Garth
Transitional Legal Practice And Professional Ideology, Bryant G. Garth
Michigan Journal of International Law
This essay assumes that there are three other reasons for studying transnational legal practice. First, such a study provides a way to explore some of the dilemmas that we often overlook about our domestic legal system. In both the domestic and transnational legal settings we are uncomfortable with the idea of law as "merely a business"; troubled by the invasion of "legality" into domains that once had seemed immune from state regulation; wary of the expense of "mega" law and litigation; reticent about a "total justice" which is expected to compensate individual victims of every unpleasant social accident; and nervous …
The Development Of Nonprofit Corporation Law And An Agenda For Reform, James J. Fishman
The Development Of Nonprofit Corporation Law And An Agenda For Reform, James J. Fishman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article examines the development of the law of “charitable corporations”' and attempts to explain why the charitable corporation rather than the charitable trust became the predominant organizational form for charitable and benevolent activities in the United States. It then discusses some of the inconsistencies of nonprofit corporation law and provides an agenda for future reform.
The Publicly Held Corporation And The Insurability Of Punitive Damages, Alyssa Walden
The Publicly Held Corporation And The Insurability Of Punitive Damages, Alyssa Walden
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
How Should We Talk About Corporations? The Languages Of Economics And Of Citizenship, James Boyd White
How Should We Talk About Corporations? The Languages Of Economics And Of Citizenship, James Boyd White
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My immediate subject in this Comment is section 2.01 of the American Law Institute's proposed Principles of Corporate Governance (Tentative Draft No. 2), which defines in general terms the proper objectives and conduct of a business corporation. My larger subject has to do with the adequacy and inadequacy of various languages in which corporate purposes and limits might be expressed, and especially with the limits of the economic language used in the ALI Draft.
Kentucky Law Survey: Corporations, Willburt D. Ham
Kentucky Law Survey: Corporations, Willburt D. Ham
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Disparate Tax Treatment Of Different Types Of Business Organizations: Where Should We Go From Here?, Douglas A. Kahn
Disparate Tax Treatment Of Different Types Of Business Organizations: Where Should We Go From Here?, Douglas A. Kahn
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If several persons wish to join together in a common enterprise in order to pool their capital or labor or some of each, they may choose among a variety of available organizational structures that will serve that purpose. The most common entity forms are partnerships (including joint ventures), corporations, and trusts. While, in its typical structure, each of those entity forms has its own distinct characteristics, the structure of such organizations often is modified by agreement so as to adopt attributes of another type of entity. Because of this, the substantive distinction between entity types is blurred.