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Securities -- Insiders' Liability Under Section 16(B) Of The Securities Exchange Act For Stock Transfer After Corporate Merger -- Kern County Land Co. V. Occidental Petroleum Corp., John Olson
John Olson
No abstract provided.
Regulatory Effectiveness In Ofcs, Andrew Morriss, Clifford Henson
Regulatory Effectiveness In Ofcs, Andrew Morriss, Clifford Henson
Andrew P. Morriss
The claim that OFCs are lax regulators has two weaknesses. First, it ignores differences between OFCs and onshore jurisdictions that influence the effectiveness of regulatory measures, such as their relative need to protect retail investors and the effectiveness of informal constraints. Second, leading OFCs deploy resources that are comparable to leading onshore jurisdictions by many measures.
Institutional Investors' Appetite For Alternatives, Christopher Geczy, Jessica Jeffers, David Musto, Anne Tucker
Institutional Investors' Appetite For Alternatives, Christopher Geczy, Jessica Jeffers, David Musto, Anne Tucker
Anne Tucker
No abstract provided.
The Shareholder Value Myth, Lynn Stout
On The Rise Of Shareholder Primacy, Signs Of Its Fall, And The Return Of Managerialism (In The Closet), Lynn Stout
On The Rise Of Shareholder Primacy, Signs Of Its Fall, And The Return Of Managerialism (In The Closet), Lynn Stout
Lynn A. Stout
In their 1932 opus "The Modern Corporation and Public Property," Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means famously documented the evolution of a new economic entity—the public corporation. What made the public corporation “public,” of course, was that it had thousands or even hundreds of thousands of shareholders, none of whom owned more than a small fraction of outstanding shares. As a result, the public firm’s shareholders had little individual incentive to pay close attention to what was going on inside the firm, or even to vote. Dispersed shareholders were rationally apathetic. If they voted at all, they usually voted to approve …
Are Stock Markets Costly Casinos? Disagreement, Market Failure, And Securities Regulation, Lynn Stout
Are Stock Markets Costly Casinos? Disagreement, Market Failure, And Securities Regulation, Lynn Stout
Lynn A. Stout
No abstract provided.
Are Takeover Premiums Really Premiums? Market Price, Fair Value, And Corporate Law, Lynn Stout
Are Takeover Premiums Really Premiums? Market Price, Fair Value, And Corporate Law, Lynn Stout
Lynn A. Stout
No abstract provided.
Securities Exchange Act—Treatment Of Intrastate Use Of Telephone.—Rosen V. Albern Color Research, Inc.—And Nemitz V. Cunny, John Dobbyn
John Dobbyn
No abstract provided.
The End Of Contractarianism? Behavioral Economics And The Law Of Corporations, Kent Greenfield
The End Of Contractarianism? Behavioral Economics And The Law Of Corporations, Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield
Reviews the current state of the scholarship in the field of behavioral economics as it relates to corporate and securities law.
An Introduction To The Federalist Society's Panelist Discussion Titled "Deregulating The Markets: The Jobs Act", Lawrence Hamermesh, Peter Tsoflias
An Introduction To The Federalist Society's Panelist Discussion Titled "Deregulating The Markets: The Jobs Act", Lawrence Hamermesh, Peter Tsoflias
Lawrence A. Hamermesh
At its 2012 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C., the Corporations, Securities & Antitrust Practice Group of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies hosted a panel discussion titled "Deregulating the Markets: The JOBS Act." The panel members were the Honorable Daniel M. Gallagher, Joseph H. Kaufman, Joanne T. Medero, Professor Robert T. Miller, and Professor Robert B. Thompson. The Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook moderated the discussion. This Article begins with a cursory overview of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act" or "Act") provisions discussed by the panelists. It then summarizes the positions expressed by …
Closing Wall Street’S Commodity And Swaps Betting Parlors: Legal Remedies To Combat Needlessly Gambling Up The Price Of Crude Oil Beyond What Market Fundamentals Dictate, Michael Greenberger
Closing Wall Street’S Commodity And Swaps Betting Parlors: Legal Remedies To Combat Needlessly Gambling Up The Price Of Crude Oil Beyond What Market Fundamentals Dictate, Michael Greenberger
Michael Greenberger
The price of crude oil in the futures markets has oscillated wildly during the past five years. Although these price swings may partly be a result of insufficient supply meeting large demand for oil, economic data demonstrate that market fundamentals have in fact remained in equilibrium. An overwhelming number of market participants, financial analysts, and academics have instead shown that unregulated excessive speculation in the oil futures markets is to blame. Such excessive speculation is a result of the financialization of commodities, which has exacerbated price swings in oil because the speculative upward betting causes artificially high prices that do …
The Biological Basis For The Recognition Of The Family, Scott Fitzgibbon
The Biological Basis For The Recognition Of The Family, Scott Fitzgibbon
Scott T. FitzGibbon
The family is matter of heart and blood. It is created, in part, by physical and emotional intimacy. It projects itself through history through its biological dimension. Any reasonable definition of the family must recognize this fundamental characteristic. “Biological dimension” here refers, not only to genetic affinities, important as those may be, but to all physical connections and to all matters closely related to the physical. Thus, it includes all the activities and dispositions which, generation after generation, bring a family together in the great procreative project: the begetting and rearing of children. The biological dimension includes making love and …
Regulation Of Speculation In The Financial Market: Focusing On Derivative Instruments, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Regulation Of Speculation In The Financial Market: Focusing On Derivative Instruments, Christopher Chao-Hung Chen
Christopher Chao-hung Chen
This article argues that market speculation is a conduct to acquire benefits by undertaking risk. Derivative instruments are powerful tools for market participants to conduct market speculation, which may help hedging, market making and completing investment market. However, pure and excessive speculation might cause net loss of market efficiency and create external costs. Some speculative transactions may imply asymmetric information. Market speculation might also lead to market abuse and even systemic risk. These reasons provide the basis to regulate market speculation by derivatives trading. This paper argues that Taiwan law might build on current regulatory model centring on the type …
Toward A Public Enforcement Model For Directors' Duty Of Oversight, Renee Jones, Michelle Welsh
Toward A Public Enforcement Model For Directors' Duty Of Oversight, Renee Jones, Michelle Welsh
Renee Jones
This Article proposes a public enforcement model for the fiduciary duties of corporate directors. Under the dominant model of corporate governance, the principal function of the board of directors is to oversee the conduct of senior corporate officials. When directors fail to provide proper oversight, the consequences can be severe for shareholders, creditors, employees, and society at large. Despite general agreement on the importance of director oversight, courts have yet to develop a coherent doctrine governing director liability for the breach of oversight duties. In Delaware, the dominant state for U.S. corporate law, the courts tout the importance of board …
Reforming The Third Year Of Law School, Lyman Johnson, Robert Danforth, David Millon
Reforming The Third Year Of Law School, Lyman Johnson, Robert Danforth, David Millon
Lyman P. Q. Johnson
No abstract provided.
Law, Fact, And Discretion In The Federal Courts: An Empirical Study, Robert Anderson
Law, Fact, And Discretion In The Federal Courts: An Empirical Study, Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson IV
The organization of the federal judiciary rests upon a division of labor between trial courts and appellate courts. Central to this division of labor is the standard of review, which requires that appellate courts review factual and discretionary decisions deferentially. The conventional wisdom is that appellate courts almost never reverse trial court findings of fact and rarely reverse discretionary decisions. The prevailing view, however, is greatly oversimplified. Data from federal cases suggest that standards of review operate in a much more complex and nuanced way than the conventional account would indicate. The empirical evidence suggests that the appellate courts routinely …
Teaching And Learning The Law Of Boats, Robert Anderson
Teaching And Learning The Law Of Boats, Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson IV
I have taught admiralty and maritime law exactly twice. That experience hardly makes me an expert in training future proctors. What that experience does give me, however, is the perspective that comes from having recently confronted the challenges of learning the field myself. And that perspective has led me to teach the admiralty survey course differently from how I teach any of my other classes and differently from how i perceive other admiralty classes that are taught by more experienced teachers. In this essay, I hope to explain how and why I teach admiralty differently, with the hope of offering …
Parent, Child, Husband, Wife: When Recognition Fails, Tragedy Ensues, Scott Fitzgibbon
Parent, Child, Husband, Wife: When Recognition Fails, Tragedy Ensues, Scott Fitzgibbon
Scott T. FitzGibbon
This article briefly notes some developments in the law and society of our present age regarding the understanding — the recognition — of marriage, fatherhood, motherhood, and the family. The article warns against a certain casualness, a confusion, perhaps even a certain promiscuity of thought, that has occasionally emerged in the law. Drawing on Sophocles' drama Oedipus the King and on the scriptural narrative of David and Bathsheba, the article investigates what might be called the "moral location" of the activity of recognition. It proposes that recognition of basic family forms is a process with a deep dimension. It apprehends …
Distinguishing Judges: An Empirical Ranking Of Judicial Quality In The United States Court Of Appeals, Robert Anderson
Distinguishing Judges: An Empirical Ranking Of Judicial Quality In The United States Court Of Appeals, Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson IV
This article presents an empirical quality ranking of 383 federal appellate judges who served on the United States Court of Appeals between 1960 and 2008. Like existing judge evaluation studies, this article uses citations among judicial opinions to assess judicial quality. Unlike existing citation studies, which treat positive and negative citations alike, this article ranks judges according to the mix of positive and negative citations to the opinions, rather than the number of citations to those opinions. By distinguishing between positive and negative citations, this approach avoids ranking judges higher for citations even when the judges are being cited negatively. …
The Formless City Of Plato's Republic: How The Legal And Social Promotion Of Divorce And Same-Sex Marriage Contravenes The Principles And Undermines The Projects Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Scott Fitzgibbon
Scott T. FitzGibbon
In the Republic, Plato describes a stage in social decay called “formlessness,” where all sorts of differences are accepted and none is preferred. No one need hold office or obey. People are impatient with all the ties that ought to bind them. Plato's formess city displays three deplorable features. One is the denigration of law and custom. A second is ethical skepticism or nihilism. A third is the repudiation of duty. These features also characterize the divorce culture and the same-sex marriage movement. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights reflects a philosophy quite the reverse of Plato’s formless city. Its …
Massachusetts Uniform Security Act, Scott Fitzgibbon
Massachusetts Uniform Security Act, Scott Fitzgibbon
Scott T. FitzGibbon
Continually updated resource
Common Law Liability For Defective Opinions And How To Avoid It, Scott Fitzgibbon
Common Law Liability For Defective Opinions And How To Avoid It, Scott Fitzgibbon
Scott T. FitzGibbon
No abstract provided.