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Law And Legal Theory In The History Of Corporate Responsibility: Corporate Personhood, Lyman Johnson Jun 2011

Law And Legal Theory In The History Of Corporate Responsibility: Corporate Personhood, Lyman Johnson

Seattle University Law Review

This Article, the first of a multipart project, addresses the nature of corporate personhood, one area where law has played a central role in the history of corporate responsibility in the United States.1 The treatment will be illustrative, not exhaustive. Consistent with the theme of the larger project, the Article serves to make the simple but important point that a full historical understanding of corporate responsibility requires an appreciation of the law’s significant, if ultimately limited, contribution to the longstanding American quest for more responsible corporate conduct. On one hand, the spheres of law and corporate responsibility, although clearly complementary, …


Rethinking The Nature Of The Firm: The Corporation As A Governance Object, Peer Zumbansen Jun 2011

Rethinking The Nature Of The Firm: The Corporation As A Governance Object, Peer Zumbansen

Seattle University Law Review

This Article attempts to bridge two discourses—corporate governance and contract governance. Regarding the latter, a group of scholars has recently set out to develop a more comprehensive research agenda to explore the governance dimensions of contractual relations, highlighting the potential of contract theory to develop a more encompassing theory of social and economic transactions. While a renewed interest in the contribution of economic theory for a concept of contract governance drives one dimension of this research, another part of this undertaking has been to move contract theory closer to theories of social organization. Here, these scholars emphasize the “social” or …


Strengthening Investment In Public Corporations Through The Uncorporation, Kelli A. Alces Jun 2011

Strengthening Investment In Public Corporations Through The Uncorporation, Kelli A. Alces

Seattle University Law Review

We cannot completely overcome the difficulties caused by the separation of ownership and control. In The Modern Corporation and Private Property, Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner Means focused our attention on what was then a relatively new phenomenon: widely dispersed public shareholding.1 They marveled at how, for the first time in the history of the American economy, the owners of assets had so little to do with the management of those assets, and managers had so much power over so much health that did not belong to them.2 Berle and Means described what we now call the Berle−Means corporation, the …


Deconstructing Corporate Governance: Director Primacy Without Principle?, René Reich-Graefe Jan 2011

Deconstructing Corporate Governance: Director Primacy Without Principle?, René Reich-Graefe

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

For almost eighty years now, corporate law scholarship has centered around two elementary analytical findings made in what has once been described as the “last major work of original scholarship”within the field.


Approaching Comparative Company Law , David C. Donald Jan 2008

Approaching Comparative Company Law , David C. Donald

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


Delaware Strikes Back: Newcastle Partners And The Fight For State Corporate Autonomy, Michael W. Ott Jan 2007

Delaware Strikes Back: Newcastle Partners And The Fight For State Corporate Autonomy, Michael W. Ott

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Practical Soul Of Business Ethics: The Corporate Manager's Dilemma And The Social Teaching Of The Catholic Church, Leo L. Clarke, Bruce P. Frohnen, Edward C. Lyons Jan 2005

The Practical Soul Of Business Ethics: The Corporate Manager's Dilemma And The Social Teaching Of The Catholic Church, Leo L. Clarke, Bruce P. Frohnen, Edward C. Lyons

Seattle University Law Review

This Article focuses on and attempts to dispel an overly narrow view of the moral responsibilities of corporations and their managers. Many businessmen and lawyers, relying on prevailing approaches to business ethics, labor under the misperception that the moral ladder in the business world has only one rung: "Be honest." Americans, however, should, can and do expect more from the managers of our large corporations, and virtually every Fortune 100 company publicly espouses a "social responsibility" far exceeding mere honesty. Further, as is demonstrated, American jurisprudence is consistent with those expectations. This Article's thesis is that Catholic Social Teaching provides …


From Special Privilege To General Utility: A Continuation Of Willard Hurst's Study Of Corporations, Susan Pace Hamill Jan 1999

From Special Privilege To General Utility: A Continuation Of Willard Hurst's Study Of Corporations, Susan Pace Hamill

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Corporate Law, Robin Jean Davis, Louis J. Palmer Jr. Jun 1998

Corporate Law, Robin Jean Davis, Louis J. Palmer Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Corporate Law - Developing Uniformity In Limitations Periods For Implied Private Actions Under The Securities Exchange Act Of 1934, Gregory W. Ladner Jan 1994

Corporate Law - Developing Uniformity In Limitations Periods For Implied Private Actions Under The Securities Exchange Act Of 1934, Gregory W. Ladner

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rule 10b-5: Birth Of The Concept Of Market Insider And Its Application In A Criminal Case - United States V. Chiarella, John J. Murphy Jan 1980

Rule 10b-5: Birth Of The Concept Of Market Insider And Its Application In A Criminal Case - United States V. Chiarella, John J. Murphy

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Note examines the necessity of the expansion of the "market insider" by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Chairella. It goes on to analyze whether or not the criminal conviction under Rule 10b-5 of Chiarella was appropriate given the lack of notice.


Frankenstein, Incorporated, By I. Maurice Wormser, Daniel James Dec 1931

Frankenstein, Incorporated, By I. Maurice Wormser, Daniel James

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.