Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Banking and Finance Law (1)
- Business (1)
- Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics (1)
- Business Organizations Law (1)
- Commercial Law (1)
-
- Comparative and Foreign Law (1)
- Economic History (1)
- Economic Policy (1)
- Economic Theory (1)
- Economics (1)
- Finance (1)
- Law and Society (1)
- Legal History (1)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (1)
- Securities Law (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Sociology (1)
- Work, Economy and Organizations (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Law
Matters Of Preference: Tracing The Line Between Citizens, Democratic States, And International Law, Mark A. Chinen
Matters Of Preference: Tracing The Line Between Citizens, Democratic States, And International Law, Mark A. Chinen
Mark A. Chinen
In this Article, we assess the role the aggregation of citizen preferences into the foreign policy choices of a democratic country might play in the legitimization of international law. After addressing some of the theoretical and empirical issues associated with such an approach, we use an anticipated reaction model developed by Michael Bailey to show that even in large democracies there are mechanisms through which citizen preferences can be and are reflected in the policy choices of their representatives. Incumbents and candidates for office take policy positions in hopes of maximizing their future election chances. Although policymakers each have their …
Neo-Brandeisianism And The New Deal: Adolf A. Berle, Jr., William O. Douglas, And The Problem Of Corporate Finance In The 1930s, Jessica Wang
Seattle University Law Review
This essay revisits Adolf A. Berle, Jr. and The Modern Corporation and Private Property by focusing on the triangle of Berle, Louis D. Brandeis, and William O. Douglas in order to examine some of the underlying assumptions about law, economics, and the nature of modern society behind securities regulation and corporate finance in the 1930s. I explore Douglas and Berle’s academic and political relationship, the conceptual underpinnings of Brandeis, Berle, and Douglas’s critiques of modern finance, and the ways in which the two younger men—Berle and Douglas—ultimately departed from their role model, Brandeis.