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The New Federal Corporation Law?, Lawrence A. Cunningham
The New Federal Corporation Law?, Lawrence A. Cunningham
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Could a preemptive federal incorporation law today assume the enabling character of traditional state corporation law, instead of the mandatory flavor typical of much federal securities regulation? Does global competition mean that the US should both preempt state corporation law and adopt a flexible, principles-oriented approach to business regulation? This essay, commenting on Robert Ahdieh’s Trapped in a Metaphor: The Limited Implications of Federalism for Corporate Governance, shows how this surprising approach is plausible and may be desirable but also that it is not politically likely in the current environment. The intellectual basis for a preemptive, enabling, and flexible federal …