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Corporate Governance And Accountability, Renee M. Jones
Corporate Governance And Accountability, Renee M. Jones
Renee Jones
This book chapter on Corporate Governance and Accountability is a contribution to the book CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - SYNTHESIS OF THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE (Wiley, forthcoming 2010), edited by Ronald Anderson and H. Kent Baker. This chapter describes the sources of corporate governance standards for American corporations and analyzes the accountability mechanisms designed to ensure that corporate officials act faithfully in their management of corporate affairs. The chapter focuses on the financial reporting system under the U.S. securities laws which forms the foundation of the accountability system, and discusses structures and rules designed to ensure the integrity of financial reporting. The …
Legitimacy And Corporate Law: The Case For Regulatory Redundancy, Renee M. Jones
Legitimacy And Corporate Law: The Case For Regulatory Redundancy, Renee M. Jones
Renee Jones
This article provides a democratic assessment of the corporate law making structure in the United States. It draws upon the basic democratic principle that those affected by legal rules should have a voice in determining the substance of those rules. Although other commentators have noted certain undemocratic aspects of corporate law, this Article is the first to present a comprehensive assessment of the corporate regulatory structure from the perspective of democracy. It departs from prior accounts by looking past the states' role to consider the ways that federal regulation shores up the legitimacy of the overarching structure. This focus on …
Dynamic Federalism: Competition, Cooperation And Securities Enforcement, Renee M. Jones
Dynamic Federalism: Competition, Cooperation And Securities Enforcement, Renee M. Jones
Renee Jones
The concept of competition between the federal government and the states was central to the framers’ vision of our constitutional structure. In the framers’ view, federal-state regulatory competition ensured an alternative regime to citizens dissatisfied with the dominant regulator’s performance. Recently, the dynamics of federalism have shifted power in the securities enforcement field from the SEC to certain state securities regulators. The states, rather than the SEC, have led enforcement efforts in the Wall Street analyst conflicts and the mutual fund trading investigations. This shift in authority has prompted renewed debate over whether a uniform national system of securities regulation …
Corporate Law Discussion Group On The Dodd-Frank Act, Renee Jones
Corporate Law Discussion Group On The Dodd-Frank Act, Renee Jones
Renee Jones
No abstract provided.
Panelist, Federalism And Corporate Governance, Renee Jones
Panelist, Federalism And Corporate Governance, Renee Jones
Renee Jones
No abstract provided.
Enforcing Directors Duties: A Comparative Analysis, Renee Jones
Enforcing Directors Duties: A Comparative Analysis, Renee Jones
Renee Jones
No abstract provided.
Corporate Governance And Business Ethics In A Post-Crisis World, Renee Jones
Corporate Governance And Business Ethics In A Post-Crisis World, Renee Jones
Renee Jones
No abstract provided.
Corporate Law Discussion Group On The Dodd-Frank Act, Renee Jones
Corporate Law Discussion Group On The Dodd-Frank Act, Renee Jones
Renee Jones
No abstract provided.