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Corporate And Business Law, Laurence V. Parker
Corporate And Business Law, Laurence V. Parker
University of Richmond Law Review
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Shareholders In The Jury Box: A Populist Check Against Corporate Mismanagement, Ann M. Scarlett
Shareholders In The Jury Box: A Populist Check Against Corporate Mismanagement, Ann M. Scarlett
All Faculty Scholarship
The recent subprime mortgage disaster exposed corporate officers and directors who mismanaged their corporations, failed to exercise proper oversight, and acted in their self-interest. Two previous waves of corporate scandals in this decade revealed similar misconduct. After the initial scandals, Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission attempted to prevent the next crisis in corporate governance through legislative and regulatory actions such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Those attempts failed. Shareholder derivative litigation has also failed because judges accord corporate executives great deference and thus rarely impose liability for breaches of fiduciary duties.
To prevent the next crisis in …
Introduction: Unsettling Questions, Disquieting Stories, Mae Kuykendall, David A. Westbrook
Introduction: Unsettling Questions, Disquieting Stories, Mae Kuykendall, David A. Westbrook
Journal Articles
The Business Law and Narrative Symposium, held at Michigan State University on September 10-11, 2009, brought together nationally known legal scholars, and scholars from other disciplines, to discuss whether and how the institution of the corporation was embedded in social narratives, public stories. This introductory essay reviews the responses of these scholars to the thesis of Kuykendall's article, No Imagination: The Marginal Role of Narrative in Corporate Law. The authors conclude with a hope that corporate law might offer a more literary sensibility by which to make our lives in global capitalism more comprehensible.