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A History Of Corporate Law Federalism In The Twentieth Century, William W. Bratton
A History Of Corporate Law Federalism In The Twentieth Century, William W. Bratton
Seattle University Law Review
This Article describes the emergence of corporate law federalism across a long twentieth century. The period begins with New Jersey’s successful initiation of charter competition in 1888 and ends with the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. The federalism in question describes the interrelation of state and federal regulation of corporate internal affairs. This Article takes a positive approach, pursuing no normative bottom line. It makes six observations: (1) the federalism describes a division of subject matter, with internal affairs regulated by the states and securities issuance and trading regulated by the federal government; (2) the federalism is an …
The Structure Of Corporate Law Revolutions, William Savitt
The Structure Of Corporate Law Revolutions, William Savitt
Seattle University Law Review
Since, call it 1970, corporate law has operated under a dominant conception of governance that identifies profit-maximization for stockholder benefit as the purpose of the corporation. Milton Friedman’s essay The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits, published in September of that year, provides a handy, if admittedly imprecise, marker for the coronation of the shareholder-primacy paradigm. In the decades that followed, corporate law scholars pursued an ever-narrowing research agenda with the purpose and effect of confirming the shareholder-primacy paradigm. Corporate jurisprudence followed a similar path, slowly at first and later accelerating, to discover in the precedents and …
Decisional Integrity And The Business Judgment Rule: A Theory, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Decisional Integrity And The Business Judgment Rule: A Theory, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Pepperdine Law Review
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Business Associations -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Kenneth L. Roberts
Business Associations -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Kenneth L. Roberts
Vanderbilt Law Review
I. CASES
A. Disregard of Corporate Entity
B. Action in Corporate Name After Revocation of Charter
C. Effect of Merger
1. Privilege Tax
2. Statute of Limitations
D. Judicial Intervention in Internal Corporate Affairs
E. Disregard of Fictitious Corporate Records
F. Criminal Liability of Corporation for Acts of Agents
G. Corporate Venue Under Federal Anti-Trust Laws
II. STATUTES
A. Unincorporated Associations Treated as Corporations
B. Amendments to Securities Law
C. Massachusetts Trust Act
D. Industrial Development Corporation "Projects"
E. Amendments Relating to General Welfare Corporations
F. Miscellany