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The Damn Public: Corporations As Citizens, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Get Smart Fast: Cutting Edge Issues In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Corporations As Citizens, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

No abstract provided.

Keynote Speaker, National Business Law Scholars Conference, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Faculty Colloquium, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Keynote Speaker, Théorie De L'Enterprise. Modèles De Gouvernance & Crèation Collective, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Your Boss’S Business? Corporate Personhood And The Supreme Court, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Hobby Lobby was a dangerous decision,but because the Court ignored corporate personhood rather than endorsing it.

Praising Corporate Personhood, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Corporate personhood has wrongly developed a bad name; efforts to end corporate personhood by way of a constitutional amendment are either worthless or harmful.

Corporate Citizenship: Goal Or Fear?, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Progressives should oppose a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood.

Debate: “Be It Resolved: Corporations Should Not Be Considered People Under The U.S. Constitution.”, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

This was a debate with Jeff Clements, founder of Free Speech for People, about corporate personhood.

Sticking The Landing: Making The Most Of The “Stakeholder Moment”, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

This paper illustrates that the shareholder primacy model is still the prevailing model especially as the proponents of the stakeholder model have not come up with a theoretically sound alternative. It is argued that all corporations' principal stakeholders should be protected by the imposition of fiduciary duties on managerial decision makers. Homogeneity on corporate boards can reinforce thinking that leads to bad decision making. The findings of various researchers into behavioural economics are considered. It is pointed out that the interests of the shareholders are rarely, if ever, the same as those of other stakeholders. This supports the idea that …

Are Shareholders Owners? Absolutely. And Absolutely Not, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Shareholder ownership is in reality ‘shareholder primacy,’ or ‘shareholder supremacy.’ An excessive focus on shareholder interests encourages managerial decisions that are overly risky from society’s perspective. Including broader stakeholder concerns at the senior level of corporate decision making will help roll back the short-termism of corporations.

Panelist, The Role Of Government In Corporate Activities And Cross-Border Transactions, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Corporate Innovation And Abuse, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

This was a week-long course, co-taught with Professor Frank Partnoy of the University of San Diego, to graduate-level students at the University of Sydney.

Corporate Citizenship As A Four-Letter Word, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Also presented at the American Constitution Society Lawyer's Chapter in Dallas, TX in November 2014.

A New Matrix: Do The Interests Of Shareholders, Employees, And Managers Conflict, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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The Progressive Possibility Of Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

In this article, I wish to argue that we find ourselves, at least in the United States and perhaps world-wide, in an unusual and special moment in the intellectual history of corporate law. I believe there is more openness to re-thinking corporate law than any time in a generation. And I do not only mean the parts of corporate law governing executive compensation or the due diligence required when facing a merger proposal. I also mean an openness to discuss the questions of first principle: What are corporations for? Who owns them? What are their obligations to society in general? …

The Third Way, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

There is a third way between deference to management on the one hand and strict shareholder primacy on the other: rigorous managerial obligations that extend to all the firm's stakeholders.

The Board As Regulator, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

The best (and a new) way to conceptualize the role of the corporate board is as a regulator, charged with taking into account the interests of various stakeholders and broadly serving the public interest.

The Company Board As A Regulatory Body, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Progressive Possibilities For Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

No abstract provided.

Panelist, Mini-Symposium On Tamar Frankel's Book The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Featured Speaker, Demos Monthly Meeting, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Panelist, Apocalypse Now Or Much Ado About Nothing? An Election Post-Mortem On The Effects Of Citizens United, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Moderator, Corporation Speech After Citizens United, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Panelist, The Affordable Care Act’S Prospects In The Supreme Court, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Panelist, To Amend Or Not To Amend: The Impact Of Citizens United, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Moderator, Panel On Defense Of Marriage Act, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Presentations On The Myth Of Choice, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield has delivered over 30 public lectures and presentations to a wide variety of audiences in support of his book, The Myth of Choice, including presentations at the Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley, the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN.

Moderator, Secularism, Islam, And Democracy, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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