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Outsourcing Corporate Accountability, Kishanthi Parella

Scholarly Articles

This Article addresses the problem of preventing human rights violations abroad that result from the globalization of business. It specifically explores the challenge of improving labor standards in global value chains. The modern business has changed dramatically and has “gone global” in order to court foreign markets and secure resources, including labor. Familiar household names, such as Nike and Apple, have “outsourced” many of their functions to suppliers overseas. As multinational buyers, they dominate one end of the global value chain. At the opposite end of the value chain are the local managers and owners of the factories and workhouses …

Reverse Cross-Listings - The Coming Race To List In Emerging Markets And An Enhanced Understanding Of Classical Bonding, Nicholas C. Howson, Vikramaditya Khanna

Articles

Studies have found that when a U.S. issuer lists abroad on a foreign exchange, its shares exhibit negative abnormal returns. This negative movement may be because the market expects that the foreign listing will facilitate undetectable insider trading on the foreign exchange or other conduct impermissible in the United States.

Public-Private Partnership: The Chinese Dilemma, Henry S. Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

As noted by Greg Shaffer in his book ‘Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation’, the US and EU have different approaches to public-private partnership in dealing with foreign trade barriers: the former tends to be more ‘bottom-up’, while the latter tends to be ‘top-down’. Inspired by Shaffer’s work, this article examines China’s experience in establishing public-private partnership. Initially, China appeared to prefer the American approach by adopting the Rules on Trade Barrier Investigation (TBI), which empowers domestic firms to petition the government directly to launch investigation against foreign trade barriers. However, since 2005, China seems to have shifted to …

Viken Securities Limited Et Al Order On Motion To Compel, Melvin K. Westmoreland

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Davis Lee Companies, Llc Final Judgment And Order On Motion To Hold Defendant Steven N. Aninye In Contempt, Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Global Aerospace, Inc. Order On Defendants' Emergency Second Motion For Orders Compelling Discovery, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Delaware Public Benefit Corporations 90 Days Out: Who's Opting In?, Alicia E. Plerhoples

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Delaware legislature recently shocked the sustainable business and social enterprise sector. On August 1, 2013, amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law became effective, allowing entities to incorporate as a public benefit corporation, a new hybrid corporate form that requires managers to balance shareholders’ financial interests with the besat interests of stakeholders materially affected by the corporation’s conduct, and produce a public benefit. For a state that has long ruled U.S. corporate law and whose judiciary has frequently invoked shareholder primacy, the adoption of the public benefit corporation form has been hailed as a victory by sustainable business and …

City Of Atlanta Order On Plaintiff's Motion For Partial Summary Judgment, Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Rudy Blake Frazier And Building Technology Consulting Llc Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Global Aerospace Inc. Second Order On Defendants' Amended Motion For Order Compelling Discovery, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Summary Of Las Vegas Sands Corp. V. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 69, Michael Bowman

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Court determined whether a former CEO is within a “class of persons” allowed to use the corporation’s privileged documents in litigation against the corporation.

Homeland Self Storage Management, Llc Order Denying Defendants' Motion To Stay, John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Enforcing Court Orders In A Foreign Land, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Give thought to crafting an arbitration clause in cross-border agreements to safeguard your business interests

Michael D. Sullivan Order On Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Global Aerospace, Inc. Order On Defendant's Motion To Compel Discovery, Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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New York Stock Exchange, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Provides a historical overview of the origins and early development of the New York Stock Exchange.

Concentrated Ownership And Corporate Control: Wallenberg Sphere And Samsung Group, Hwa-Jin Kim

Law & Economics Working Papers

Samsung Group’s success cannot be attributed to its corporate governance structure, at least thus far. The corporate governance of Samsung has been rather controversial. As the group faces the succession issue the corporate governance has become as crucial as their new products and services. Samsung has discovered a role model on the other side of the planet, Wallenberg Sphere in Sweden. Much effort has been made to learn about Wallenberg’s arrangements and key to its success. However, a fundamental difference between the institutions in Sweden and Korea has made the corporate structures of the two groups radically different. Wallenberg uses …

Systematic Ict Surveillance By Employers: Are Your Personal Activities Private?, Arlene J. Nicholas

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

This paper reviews the various methods of information and communications technology (ICT) that is used by employers to peer into the work lives and, in some cases, private lives of employees. Some of the most common methods – such as computer and Internet monitoring, video surveillance, and global positioning systems (GPS) – have resulted in employee disciplines that have been challenged in courts. This paper provides background information on United States (U.S.) laws and court cases which, in this age of easily accessible information, mostly support the employer. Assessments regarding regulations and policies, which will need to be continually updated …

Of Bitcoins, Independently Wealthy Software, And The Zero-Member Llc, Shawn J. Bayern

Scholarly Publications

An innovative software technology known as Bitcoin makes it easier for software to operate with some degree of financial autonomy. In a meaningful sense, it is now possible for software to conduct business on its own account, without using the traditional financial system as an intermediary and without a financial existence tied to an existing natural or legal person. This Essay explores this possibility and suggests that legally autonomous entities, such as a limited liability company (LLC) with no members, are a useful legal structure for factually autonomous systems.

Framing A Purpose For Corporate Law, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

This article seeks to frame a short statement of purpose for corporate law on which all reasonable observers can agree. The statement, in order to succeed at its intended purpose, must satisfy two strict conditions: first, it must have enough content to be meaningful; second, it must be completely uncontroversial, both descriptively and normatively. The exercise, thus described, involves avoiding the issues that occupy center stage in discussions about corporate law while at the same time highlighting the discussants’ generally held presuppositions. Three closely interconnected issues arise. First, whether the statement of the purpose of corporate law should speak in …

Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss Plaintiffs' Verified Complaint (Harmony Land Company, Llc Et Al.), Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Order Granting Interlocutory Injunction (Runzhou Zhang Et Al.), Melvin K. Westmoreland

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Order On Defendants' Motion To Compel Against Non-Party Wells Fargo (Global Aerospace Inc.), Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Order On Valuation Of Shares Under Shareholder Agreement (Justin Fouse Et Al.), John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Sales Suppression As A Service (Ssaas) & The Apple Store Solution, Richard Thompson Ainsworth

Faculty Scholarship

The problem of sales suppression fraud is estimated to cost state and local governments $20 billion annually ($2 billion in New York restaurants alone). Modern sales suppression (skimming) is carried out with technology (Zappers and Phantom-ware). Nine undercover sting operations in and around Manhattan and the Bronx by investigators working for New York’s Department of Taxation and Finance (NY-DT&F) have identified the SSaaS variant of modern skimming.

A striking example of SSaaS may be unfolding in the $1 million sales suppression case against Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY). It is alleged that Grimm skimmed sales from his Healthalicious restaurant in Manhattan, …

Nineteenth Century Corporate Law: A New Lens For Religious Freedom Scholars, Nathan B. Oman

Popular Media

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Order On Motions To Compel Discovery (Southern Telecom Inc.), Melvin K. Westmoreland

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Order On Defendant's Motion To Dismiss (Pacific Bepure Industry Inc.), Alice D. Bonner

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Order On Various Motions (Justin Fouse Et Al.), John J. Goger

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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Order On Various Motions (Global Aerospace, Inc.), Elizabeth E. Long

Georgia Business Court Opinions

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