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The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation And Too Big To Fail, Charles W. Murdock
The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation And Too Big To Fail, Charles W. Murdock
Charles W. Murdock
Summary: The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation and Too Big to Fail
The U.S. economy is still reeling from the financial crisis that exploded in the fall of 2008. This article asserts that the big banks were major culprits in causing the crisis, by funding the non-bank lenders that created the toxic mortgages which the big banks securitized and sold to unwary investors. Paradoxically, banks which were then too big to fail are even larger today.
The article briefly reviews the history of banking from the Founding Fathers to the deregulatory mindset that has been present since 1980. It …
Predicting The Frequency Of Large Public Company Bankruptcies, Patrick Liu
Predicting The Frequency Of Large Public Company Bankruptcies, Patrick Liu
Patrick Liu
From 1980 to 2010, the number of large corporate bankruptcies in the U.S. spanned the gamut from five in 1981 to ninety-seven in 2001. In 2009, there were ninety-one large corporate bankruptcies. Past researchers have used firm-specific characteristics to predict the likelihood of bankruptcy for a given firm. However, limited research exists regarding which factors can explain nationwide fluctuations in the number of large corporate bankruptcies. Because macroeconomic variables pose systematic risk for all firms, macroeconomic variables’ yearly variations could shed light on bankruptcy filings’ yearly variations. Moreover, utilizing lagged variables, using the prior year’s change in a macroeconomic variable, …
The Evolution Of The Supreme Court’S Rule 10b-5 Jurisprudence: Protecting Fraud At The Expense Of Investors, Charles W. Murdock
The Evolution Of The Supreme Court’S Rule 10b-5 Jurisprudence: Protecting Fraud At The Expense Of Investors, Charles W. Murdock
Charles W. Murdock
Summary: The Evolution of the Supreme Court’s Rule 10b-5 Jurisprudence:
Protecting Fraud at the Expense of Investors
This article traces the evolution of Supreme Court jurisprudence over the past forty years through the prism of Rule 10b-5. It uses four “trilogies” to develop this evolution. At the start of the 1970s, the liberal trend characterized by the Warren Court still prevailed. An implied private cause of action was still in favor and litigators were viewed as private attorneys general, enforcing the securities laws to further the policy of protecting investors.
The expansion of Rule 10b-5 was slowed and more judicial …
The Private Sector’S Pivotal Role In Combating Human Trafficking, Jonathan Todres
The Private Sector’S Pivotal Role In Combating Human Trafficking, Jonathan Todres
Jonathan Todres
Human trafficking is big business, with industry estimates running in the billions of dollars annually. Much of that profit accrues to traffickers, illegal profiteers, and organized crime groups. However, the private sector-including legitimate businesses and industries-also reaps economic benefits, directly and indirectly, from the trafficking and related exploitation of persons. Despite these economic realities, the dominant approach to combating human trafficking has been to rely almost exclusively on governments and social services organizations to do the job. Little has been asked of the private sector. Two important bills-one adopted by the State of California and the otherintroduced in the U.S. …
Limiting And Eliminating (And Establishing?) Fiduciary Duties In Delaware Business Entities, Lawrence Hamermesh
Limiting And Eliminating (And Establishing?) Fiduciary Duties In Delaware Business Entities, Lawrence Hamermesh
Lawrence A. Hamermesh
No abstract provided.
Down-Sizing The Little Guy Myth In Legal Definitions, Mirit Eyal-Cohen
Down-Sizing The Little Guy Myth In Legal Definitions, Mirit Eyal-Cohen
Mirit Eyal-Cohen
What is “small” in the eyes of the law? In fact, there is not one standard definition. Current lax legal definitions of firm’s size are inconsistent and overinclusive. They result in data distortion that reinforces favoritism toward small entities as studies on the contribution of small business to the economy are greatly dependent on those studies’ delineation of the term “small.” Therefore, I argue that the current focus on size in legal definitions is a waste of time and money. In this time of huge deficits and rise in economic inequality, a lot of money is being spent based on …
The Puzzle Of Short-Termism, Kent Greenfield
The Puzzle Of Short-Termism, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
From the Introduction: When pondering the question of the “sustainable corporation,” as we did in this symposium, one of the intractable problems is the nature of the corporation to produce externalities. By noting this characteristic, I am not making a moral point but an economic one. The nature of the firm is to create financial wealth by producing goods and services for profit; without regulatory or contractual limits, the firm has every incentive to externalize costs onto those whose interests are not included in the firm’s current financial calculus. In fact, because of the corporation’s tendency to create benefits for …
Note: Guiding The Modern Lawyer Through A Global Economy: An Analysis On Outsourcing And The Aba's 2012 Proposed Changes To The Model Rules, Patrick Poole
Patrick Poole
Over the last few decades, the dramatic changes that have occurred in the global economy have similarly altered the landscape for outsourced work both domestically and internationally. One study estimates that as many as 3.3 million white-collar jobs could be shipped abroad by 2015. This growing trend has also substantially affected the unique nature of the legal field. For the past year and a half, the American Bar Association (ABA) Ethics 20/20 Commission has been considering changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct as they relate to domestic and international outsourcing. The revision process has included soliciting input from …
Tackling Investor And Managerial Myopia, Emeka Duruigbo
Tackling Investor And Managerial Myopia, Emeka Duruigbo
Emeka Duruigbo
Market observers and legal commentators link the collapse, a few years ago, of giant energy company Enron and some fabled financial firms to the short-termism phenomenon – investors acting like traders and influencing corporate managers to make policy decisions based on quarterly earnings statements. Opponents of short-termism note that the future well-being of many investors, corporations, overall economy and society at large is in jeopardy if investors with a near-term horizon, especially hedge funds, enjoy a dominant role in corporate governance. Skeptics dismiss the concerns, insisting that the notion of pervasive short-term investing is a figment of opponents’ imagination. Moreover, …
Stimulating Long-Term Shareholding, Emeka Duruigbo
Stimulating Long-Term Shareholding, Emeka Duruigbo
Emeka Duruigbo
This article answers, in the affirmative, two core research questions: do we need long-term shareholders and can we find them? The economy needs long-term shareholders to provide prudent and profitable patient capital, generate an antidote to corporate short-termism and spearhead managerial accountability. Finding these shareholders requires a structure that provides the right environment and incentives for such investment. The article presents a novel application of the trust fund theory – the dominant philosophical paradigm of American corporate finance in the 19th century - as a vehicle for stimulating long-term shareholding. The central features of the reformulated trust fund theory include …
The Supreme Court As Prometheus: Breathing Life Into The Corporate Supercitizen, Robert Sprague, Mary Ellen Wells
The Supreme Court As Prometheus: Breathing Life Into The Corporate Supercitizen, Robert Sprague, Mary Ellen Wells
Robert Sprague
This article examines the legal status of the corporation in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporations have political free speech rights equivalent to natural persons. In Citizens United, Justice Kennedy wrote that corporations were disadvantaged persons because the government had intruded upon their freedom of speech. The Citizens United majority portrays a misleading image of corporations. It is true most corporations are owned by small groups of individuals, managed by their owners, and limited in size and revenues. But what the Citizens United majority conveniently ignores is one particular attribute …
An Alternative Universe To §1113 Of The Bankruptcy Code: The Mediation Of American Airlines And Its Pension Obligations, Max L. Schatzow
An Alternative Universe To §1113 Of The Bankruptcy Code: The Mediation Of American Airlines And Its Pension Obligations, Max L. Schatzow
Max Schatzow
This paper explores mandatory mediation as an alternative method to the current §1113 framework, where judges determine the fate of collective bargaining agreements. Through dialogue, this paper will explore one potential outcome to the ongoing dispute between the various labor unions with collective bargaining agreements with American Airlines.
The Iowa Business Corporation Act's Staggered Board Requirement For Public Corporations: A Hostile Takover Of Iowa Corporate Law?, Matthew G. Dore
The Iowa Business Corporation Act's Staggered Board Requirement For Public Corporations: A Hostile Takover Of Iowa Corporate Law?, Matthew G. Dore
Matthew G Dore
State legislatures are the latest arena in a long-running battle over the merits of staggered boards of directors. Several states, including Iowa, have recently amended their corporation laws to require, as a default proposition, that public corporations have staggered boards. These new staggered board laws are apparently designed to help local public corporations resist unwanted takeover bids, an understandable goal for legislators who want to keep home-grown public corporations headquartered in their states. But the laws come with a high pricetag: as this article explains, the new laws circumvent traditional notions of corporate governance and shareholder primacy, and may also …
The Arbitration Fairness Index: Using A Public Rating System To Skirt The Legal Logjam And Promote Fairer And More Effective Arbitration Of Employment And Consumer Disputes, Thomas J. Stipanowich
The Arbitration Fairness Index: Using A Public Rating System To Skirt The Legal Logjam And Promote Fairer And More Effective Arbitration Of Employment And Consumer Disputes, Thomas J. Stipanowich
Thomas J. Stipanowich
Recent Supreme Court decisions have heightened concerns about the degree of effective judicial oversight of consumer and employment arbitration under binding predispute agreements. Efforts to address such concerns are largely stymied by a political logjam. Because binding arbitration serves as the adjudicative backdrop for many kinds of consumer disputes or employer-employee conflict, the choice of arbitration and the kind of justice available under arbitration agreements may be every bit as important as consumer warranties and other substantive rights and remedies. Yet consumers and employees tend to know very little about arbitration and how it affects their rights and obligations; arbitration …
A Delaware Lawyer In Chairman Schapiro's 'Court', Lawrence A. Hamermesh
A Delaware Lawyer In Chairman Schapiro's 'Court', Lawrence A. Hamermesh
Lawrence A. Hamermesh
No abstract provided.
Citizens United And The Ineluctable Question Of Corporate Citizenship, Amy Sepinwall
Citizens United And The Ineluctable Question Of Corporate Citizenship, Amy Sepinwall
Amy J. Sepinwall
As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, corporations and individuals now enjoy the same rights to spend money on ads supporting or opposing candidates for office. Those concerned about the role of money in politics have much to decry about the decision. But the threat to democracy posed by allowing wealthy corporations to function as political speakers arises as well under a regime that allows wealthy individuals to do so. If we are not prepared to limit individuals’ expenditures on political speech, we will have to find a way to distinguish individuals’ and corporations’ free speech …
Exit, Voice And International Jurisdictional Competition: A Case Study Of The Evolution Of Taiwan’S Regulatory Regime For Outward Investment In Mainland China, 1997-2008, Chang-Hsien Tsai
Chang-hsien (Robert) TSAI
This Article explores the interplay of demand and supply forces in the market for law through international jurisdictional competition led by offshore financial centers. To do so it uses the example of the evolution of a regulatory regime imposed by an onshore jurisdiction, Taiwan, to control outward investment into mainland China (“China-investment”). The argument is that jurisdictional competition brought about by capital mobility or exit will provoke legal changes to prevent the departure of capital when laws reduce the value of remaining within the jurisdiction. The case study is used to examine the extent to which jurisdictional competition fuelled by …
The “Ensuing Loss” Clause In Insurance Policies: The Forgotten And Misunderstood Antidote To Anti-Concurrent Causation Exclusions, Chris French
Christopher C. French
As a result of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco which destroyed the city, a clause known as the “ensuing loss” clause was created to address concurrent causation situations in which a loss follows both a covered peril and an excluded peril. Ensuing loss clauses appear in the exclusions section of such policies and in essence they provide that coverage for a loss caused by an excluded peril is nonetheless covered if the loss “ensues” from a covered peril. Today, ensuing loss clauses are found in “all risk” property and homeowners policies, which cover all losses except for …
The “Non-Cumulation Clause”: An “Other Insurance” Clause By Another Name, Chris French
The “Non-Cumulation Clause”: An “Other Insurance” Clause By Another Name, Chris French
Christopher C. French
How long-tail liability claims such as asbestos bodily injury claims and environmental property damage claims are allocated among multiple triggered policy years can result in the shifting of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars from one party to another. In recent years, insurers have argued that clauses commonly titled, “Prior Insurance and Non-Cumulation of Liability” (referred to herein as “Non-Cumulation Clauses”), which are found in commercial liability policies, should be applied to reduce or eliminate their coverage responsibilities for long-tail liability claims by shifting their coverage responsibilities to insurers that issued policies in earlier policy years. The insurers’ argument …
Debunking The Myth That Insurance Coverage Is Not Available Or Allowed For Intentional Torts Or Damages, Christopher French