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Vanderbilt University Law School

Journal

1959

Corporation law

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New Books And Recent Scholarship, F. Hodge O'Neal, Jordan Derwin, C. Edwin Chapman, Jr. Dec 1959

New Books And Recent Scholarship, F. Hodge O'Neal, Jordan Derwin, C. Edwin Chapman, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

The years since World War II have brought extensive developments in the field of corporation law and practice. Many states have enacted a completely new corporation statute' or a new blue sky law. At the same time, "federal corporation law" and federal securities regulation have grown substantially. Legislatures and courts in many states have given some recognition to the distinctive problems of the close corporation. A number of highly publicized proxy fights have spurred developments in the law applicable to the proxy system. Some courts have enunciated interesting legal principles applicable to the sale of corporate control. And just last …


Fifteen-Year Survey Of Corporate Developments, 1944-1959, Miguel A. De Capriles Dec 1959

Fifteen-Year Survey Of Corporate Developments, 1944-1959, Miguel A. De Capriles

Vanderbilt Law Review

The foregoing survey, it is believed, amply demonstrates the kaleidoscopic variety of the corporate developments of the past fifteen years, even though for obvious reasons much of the detail has had to be omitted. General conclusions are difficult to draw. It seems likely that the success of capitalist enterprise in this, period and the self-imposed improvement in standards of corporate. Fanchon & Marco, Inc. v. Paramount Pictures, 202 F.2d 731 (2d Cir. management have retarded the underlying trend toward expansion of the role of government in the regulation of economic affairs. There has been no occasion for new dramatic statutory …