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Llcs And The Private Ordering Of Dispute Resolution, Peter Molk, Verity Winship
Llcs And The Private Ordering Of Dispute Resolution, Peter Molk, Verity Winship
UF Law Faculty Publications
An emerging question in U.S. business law is how the organizational documents of a business entity set the rules for resolving internal disputes. This practice is routine in commercial contracts, which may specify where or how disputes must be resolved. Recent use of litigation provisions in corporation charters and bylaws have sparked controversy, ultimately leading to legislative action to preserve shareholder suits from contractual waiver. Yet despite accounting for the majority of business organizations and sharing features with corporations, non-corporate business entities and their internal dispute resolution process have been largely ignored. How do these non-corporate entities set ex ante …