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Asking The Right Questions: How Jill Fisch Debunks Narratives And Arrives At Solutions, Hillary A. Sale
Asking The Right Questions: How Jill Fisch Debunks Narratives And Arrives At Solutions, Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Without a doubt, Professor Jill E. Fisch is one of the most influential scholars in the corporate and securities law space. Whether we measure her contributions by awards, areas of influence, or volume, Professor Fisch’s work is at the top of the list. It is, indeed, no surprise that the Institute for Law and Economic Policy (ILEP) chose to honor Professor Fisch at this year’s corporate and securities symposium, hosted with the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. I am honored to write this introduction about Professor Fisch and explore her work and influence over time, with an emphasis …
Leveraging Information Forcing In Good Faith, Hillary A. Sale
Leveraging Information Forcing In Good Faith, Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Leveraging Information Forcing in Good Faith, a chapter in Research Handbook on Law and Time, argues that the information-forcing-substance theory has a significant role to play both in how courts decide duty of good faith and oversight matters and in how active and engaged directors can add value in the boardroom. As explored in the chapter, by deploying the theory in corporate-law matters, the courts can reveal the information gaps between officers and directors and create pressure for better processes and discourse within the corporation. In turn, this can impact both the way in which fiduciaries interact with …
Biomanipulation, Laura K. Donohue
Biomanipulation, Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Scientific and technological advances in the latter part of the 20th century catapulted biometrics forward. Thus, Carleton Simon in 1935 may have postulated using retinal vasculature for biometric identification. But it took forty years for an Eyedentify patent to bring the idea to fruition. In 1937, John Henry Wigmore similarly anticipated using oscilloscopes to identify individuals by speech patterns. Decades later, digitization and speech processors made voiceprint identification possible. Biological discoveries led to the adoption of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing. And while Alphonse Bertillon in the late 19th century postulated iris distinctions, it was only in 1991 that …