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There's A Forest In Those Trees: Teaching About The Role Of Corporations In Society, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

This paper was prepared for the University of Georgia School of Law Conference on Teaching Corporate Law, October 16, 1999. The paper argues that the basic corporate law course should focus much more on the questions surrounding the role of the corporation in society. In the typical corporate law course, little attention is given to the broad question of the position of the corporation within society at large or the narrower question of the relationship between the corporation and workers. The lack of consideration of these issues is odd indeed, since corporate law (like all law) is understandable only within …

Truth Or Consequences: If A Company Lies, Employees Should Be Able To Sue, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Reprinted as "Workers Should Be Able to Sue Over Lies," Salt Lake City Tribune, July 5, 1998;

"It's Illegal to Lie to Stockholders, But Not to Employees," Sacramento Bee, July 6, 1998 ;

"If Company Lies, Allow Workers to Sue," Des Moines Register, July 7, 1998.

From Rights To Regulation In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

No abstract provided.