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The Future Of Corporate Governance In The United States, Ronald J. Gilson
The Future Of Corporate Governance In The United States, Ronald J. Gilson
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This article is an interview of Professor Ronald J. Gilson, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Columbia University Law School. The interviewer is Cheryl L. Conner, a third year law student at the University of Richmond School of Law and the Managing Editor of the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology.
The Shaping Force Of Corporate Law In The New Economic Order, Jeffrey N. Gordon
The Shaping Force Of Corporate Law In The New Economic Order, Jeffrey N. Gordon
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My topic for this Allen Chair lecture is the shaping force of corporate governance in the new economic order. It is easy to think of corporate law as an arcane field with mysterious terms and peculiar rules, ultimately of interest only to those who are prepared to bill at least 2000 hours a year to unravel its complexities. This is the view that there is a pointless mystery about shareholders, directors, common stocks, debentures, and the bizarre creature my class encountered recently, a convertible exchangeable cumulative preferred stock; and that ultimately corporate law and practice consists of the expert manipulation …