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2006

Business Organizations Law

Kent Greenfield

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Both Sides [Now]: Higher Education Institutions Have A Right To Dissent Without Losing Federal Money, Kent Greenfield Dec 2005

Both Sides [Now]: Higher Education Institutions Have A Right To Dissent Without Losing Federal Money, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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The Failure Of Corporate Law: Fundamental Flaws And Progressive Possibilities, Kent Greenfield Dec 2005

The Failure Of Corporate Law: Fundamental Flaws And Progressive Possibilities, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

When used in conjunction with corporations, the term “public” is misleading. Anyone can purchase shares of stock, but public corporations themselves are uninhibited by a sense of societal obligation or strict public oversight. In fact, managers of most large firms are prohibited by law from taking into account the interests of the public in decision making, if doing so hurts shareholders. But this has not always been the case, as until the beginning of the twentieth century, public corporations were deemed to have important civic responsibilities.

With The Failure of Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield hopes to return corporate law to …