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To Understand Us V. Microsoft, Consider 'Acme V. Shamrock', Peter B. Rutledge, Amanda W. Newton

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The February 27, 2018, Supreme Court argument in United States v. Microsoft Corp. raises profound questions about issues of executive power, corporate governance, technology, judicial power and international affairs. At stake for the government is the scope of its investigative authority to obtain information located in a foreign country, irrespective of that country’s laws. At stake for Microsoft is its ability to organize its international corporate affairs and the predictability of the laws that will govern those affairs. This article analyzes the potential effects of this critical Supreme Court case.

Pathway To Minority Shareholder Protection: Derivative Actions In The People's Republic Of China, Donald C. Clarke, Nicholas C. Howson

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Using a dataset of Chinese judicial opinions arising in over fifty cases, this paper analyses the development and current implementation of shareholder derivative actions in the courts of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), both before and after the derivative lawsuit was explicitly authorized in the PRC’s 2006 Company Law effective January 1, 2006. In addition, we describe the very unique ecology of enterprise organization and corporate governance in modern China, and critique the formal design of the derivative action and offer reform suggestions. We find the design of the Chinese derivative lawsuit to be, in some respects, innovative and …

Book Reviews, Estes Kefauver, Senator, Stanley D. Rose, W. Edward Sell, Harold G. Wren, Robert N. Covington

Vanderbilt Law Review

Congress and the Court By Walter F. Murphy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. xi, 308. $6.95. (judicial power)

reviewer: Senator Estes Kefauver

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Interstate Apportionment of Business Income for State Income Tax Purposes By Charles E. Ratliff, Jr. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1962. Pp. xi, 132. $4.00. (tax law)

reviewer: Stanley D. Rose

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Expulsion or Oppression of Business Associates By F. Hodge O'Neal and Jordan Derwin. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,1961. Pp. vii, 263. $10.00. (business organizations)

reviewer: W. EDWARD SELL

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The Ideologies of Taxation By Louis Eisenstein. New York: The …