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Citizen Capitalism: How A Universal Fund Can Provide Influence And Income To All (2019), Lynn A. Stout, Sergio Gramitto, Tamara Belinfanti Jan 2019

Citizen Capitalism: How A Universal Fund Can Provide Influence And Income To All (2019), Lynn A. Stout, Sergio Gramitto, Tamara Belinfanti

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Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen--this book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income. It lays out a clear approach that uses the mechanisms of the private market to hold corporations accountable to the public.

This would happen through the creation of what the authors call the Universal Fund, a kind of national, democratic, mega mutual fund. Every American over eighteen would be entitled to a share and would participate in directing its share voting choices. Corporations and wealthy …


Ask The Professor: Will The Recent Supreme Court Case In Salman Result In More Cftc Enforcement Actions Charging Insider Trading?, Ronald H. Filler, Jerry W. Markham Jan 2017

Ask The Professor: Will The Recent Supreme Court Case In Salman Result In More Cftc Enforcement Actions Charging Insider Trading?, Ronald H. Filler, Jerry W. Markham

Articles & Chapters

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Contemplating The Gap-Filling Role Of Social Intrapreneurship, Tamara Belinfanti Jan 2016

Contemplating The Gap-Filling Role Of Social Intrapreneurship, Tamara Belinfanti

Articles & Chapters

Social intrapreneurs occupy an intersectional space within the large corporate form at the crossroads of innovation, profit, and social good. They are often described as "disruptive" because they devise new ways to tackle problems, usually social in nature, in a manner that disrupts traditional operating models or long-standing assumptions. Although much has been written about social intrapreneurs in managerial literature, legal literature has been silent. This Article reverses that trend and develops a theory of social intrapreneurship from a corporate law perspective. Specifically, this Article posits that social intrapreneurship in terms of praxis, characteristics, and process can be conceptualized as …


Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Report: 2009-2014, New York Law School Jan 2014

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Report: 2009-2014, New York Law School

Center Projects

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Hedge Fund Activism Report: 2013-2014, New York Law School Jan 2014

Hedge Fund Activism Report: 2013-2014, New York Law School

Center Projects

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Shareholder Cultivation And New Governance, Tamara Belinfanti Jan 2014

Shareholder Cultivation And New Governance, Tamara Belinfanti

Articles & Chapters

Several formal proposals have been made to address shareholder short-termism and speculative behavior. These include the imposition of a financial transaction tax, changes to the U.S. capital gains tax rate, and the adoption of an Investor Stewardship Code in the United Kingdom. This Article reverses the focus from top-down solutions and instead, focuses on bottom-up grass root solutions that corporations can employ, and in some cases do already employ to achieve substantially the same effect of rewarding certain types of shareholder behavior while discouraging others — a process I refer to as "Shareholder Cultivation." While many of the techniques and …


Everything Must Stay In Place - President Business, The Lego Movie, Tamara Belinfanti Jan 2014

Everything Must Stay In Place - President Business, The Lego Movie, Tamara Belinfanti

Other Publications

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Bitcoin Financial Regulation: Securities, Derivatives, Prediction Markets, And Gambling, Jerry Brito, Houman B. Shadab, Andrea Castillo Jan 2014

Bitcoin Financial Regulation: Securities, Derivatives, Prediction Markets, And Gambling, Jerry Brito, Houman B. Shadab, Andrea Castillo

Articles & Chapters

The next major wave of Bitcoin regulation will likely be aimed at financial instruments, including securities and derivatives, as well as prediction markets and even gambling. While there are many easily regulated intermediaries when it comes to traditional securities and derivatives, emerging bitcoin denominated instruments rely much less on traditional intermediaries such as banks and securities exchanges. Additionally, the block chain technology that Bitcoin introduced for the first time makes completely decentralized markets and exchanges possible, thus eliminating the need for intermediaries in complex financial transactions. In this Article we survey the type of financial instruments and transactions that will …


Hedge Fund Governance, Houman B. Shadab Jan 2013

Hedge Fund Governance, Houman B. Shadab

Articles & Chapters

This Article provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the internal governance of hedge funds. Hedge fund governance consists of the funds' underlying legal regime and the practices they adopt in response to lacking permanent capital and to reduce agency costs. Hedge fund governance is important because better governance can improve investor returns and help managers raise and retain capital. I argue that hedge fund governance is best understood as a type of responsive managerialism. It is a type of managerialism because applicable law and contracting structures give managers uniquely wide-ranging control over the fund and its operations. Hedge fund …


Globalization Through The Lens Of Palace Wars: What Elite Lawyers' Careers Can And Cannot Tell Us About Globalization Of Law, Frank W. Munger Jan 2012

Globalization Through The Lens Of Palace Wars: What Elite Lawyers' Careers Can And Cannot Tell Us About Globalization Of Law, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

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Coming Together After The Crisis: Global Convergence Of Private Equity And Hedge Funds, Houman B. Shadab Jan 2009

Coming Together After The Crisis: Global Convergence Of Private Equity And Hedge Funds, Houman B. Shadab

Articles & Chapters

Prior to the subprime-initiated financial crisis, there was a trend within the alternative investment industry towards the convergence of certain private equity and hedge fund strategies and structures. This brief article suggests that although the financial crisis will slow the process of convergence, the trend toward convergence will ultimately continue and strengthen, albeit in some ways along a different trajectory than before the crisis and with some important variations across national boundaries.


Enforcing The Community Reinvestment Act: An Advocate's Guide To Making The Cra Work For Communities, Richard D. Marsico Jan 2001

Enforcing The Community Reinvestment Act: An Advocate's Guide To Making The Cra Work For Communities, Richard D. Marsico

Articles & Chapters

This guide to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is designed to provide community advocates with the basic information and skills they need to challenge bank redlining and promote economic development in their neighborhoods. The Guide includes four sections: the legal structure of the CRA; important information about banks and how to get it; analyzing a bank's CRA records, and participating in the CRA enforcement process.


Financial Modernization: The Effect Of The Repeal Of The Glass-Steagall Act On Consumers And Communities, Richard D. Marsico Jan 2001

Financial Modernization: The Effect Of The Repeal Of The Glass-Steagall Act On Consumers And Communities, Richard D. Marsico

Articles & Chapters

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Commodities Rulings Appealable To Circuit (New York Law Journal), Daniel Wise Jan 1999

Commodities Rulings Appealable To Circuit (New York Law Journal), Daniel Wise

News Articles

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Competition Policy In America 1888-1992: History, Rhetoric, Law, Rudolph J.R. Peritz Jan 1996

Competition Policy In America 1888-1992: History, Rhetoric, Law, Rudolph J.R. Peritz

Books

Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise, freedom of contract, free labor, free trade, and free speech. This imagery has retained its appeal in myriad aspects of public policy--for example, Senator Sherman's Anti-Trust Act of 1890, Justice Holmes's metaphorical marketplace of ideas, and President Reagan's rhetoric of deregulation.

In Competition Policy in America, 1888-1992, Rudolph Peritz explores the durability of free competition imagery by tracing its influences on public policy. Looking at congressional debates and hearings, administrative agency activities, court opinions, arguments of counsel, and economic, legal, and political scholarship, he finds …


Directorial Fiduciary Duties In A Tracking Stock Equity Structure: The Need For A Duty Of Fairness, Jeffrey J. Haas Jan 1996

Directorial Fiduciary Duties In A Tracking Stock Equity Structure: The Need For A Duty Of Fairness, Jeffrey J. Haas

Articles & Chapters

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The Fault Is In Ourselves, Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 1995

The Fault Is In Ourselves, Roger J. Miner '56

Bar Associations

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