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Full-Text Articles in Law
A Control-Based Approach To Shareholder Liability For Corporate Torts, Nina A. Mendelson
A Control-Based Approach To Shareholder Liability For Corporate Torts, Nina A. Mendelson
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Some commentators defend limited shareholder liability for torts and statutory violations as efficient, even though it encourages corporations to overinvest in and to externalize the costs of risky activity. Others propose pro rata unlimited shareholder liability for corporate torts. Both approaches, however, fail to account fully for qualitative differences among shareholders. Controlling shareholders, in particular, may have lower information costs, greater influence over managerial decisionmaking, and greater ability to benefit from corporate activity. This Article develops a control-based approach to shareholder liability. It first explores several differences among shareholders. For example, a controlling shareholder can more easily curb managerial risk …
Discretion In Long-Term Open Quantity Contracts: Reining In Good Faith, Victor P. Goldberg
Discretion In Long-Term Open Quantity Contracts: Reining In Good Faith, Victor P. Goldberg
Faculty Scholarship
Long-term contracts often promise to deliver the seller's full output, the buyer's requirements, or some variation on these. For example, an electric utility might enter into a thirty year contract with a coal mine promising that it will take all the coal needed to supply a particular generating plant. These open quantity contracts have raised two issues. The first is whether the promise was illusory. If the utility had no duty to take any coal, a court could have found that there was no consideration and, therefore, no contract. While there was a time when full output and requirements contracts …
Law And Regulatory Competition: Can They Co-Exist?, John C. Coffee Jr.
Law And Regulatory Competition: Can They Co-Exist?, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
It is possible to read Stephen Choi's article with admiration and enjoyment – until a critical point is reached at its very end. In an analysis that is balanced, nuanced, and thorough, Professor Choi initially reviews the recent debate over the role of law in fostering the development of financial markets. As others have also concluded, he finds a correlation between quality of law and financial development. At a few points, he may accept too easily the claim that the common law is superior to the civil law in fostering economic growth, without adequately considering the problem of multicollinearity that …
Racing Towards The Top?: The Impact Of Cross-Listing And Stock Market Competition On International Corporate Governance, John C. Coffee Jr.
Racing Towards The Top?: The Impact Of Cross-Listing And Stock Market Competition On International Corporate Governance, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
Cross-listing by foreign issuers onto U.S. exchanges accelerated during the 1990s, bringing international market centers into competition for listings and draining liquidity from some regional markets. Although cross-listing has traditionally been explained as an attempt to break down market segmentation and to increase investor recognition of the cross-listing firm, the globalization of financial markets and instantaneous electronic communications render these explanations increasingly dated. A superior explanation is "bonding": Issuers migrate to U.S. exchanges because by voluntarily subjecting themselves to the United States's higher disclosure standards and greater threat of enforcement (both by public and private enforcers), they partially compensate for …
Endowment Effects Within Corporate Agency Relationships, Jennifer H. Arlen, Matthew L. Spitzer, Eric L. Talley
Endowment Effects Within Corporate Agency Relationships, Jennifer H. Arlen, Matthew L. Spitzer, Eric L. Talley
Faculty Scholarship
Behavioral economics is an increasingly prominent field within corporate law scholarship. A particularly noteworthy behavioral bias is the "endowment effect" – the observed differential between an individual's willingness to pay to obtain an entitlement and her willingness to accept to part with one. Should endowment effects pervade corporate contexts, they would significantly complicate much common wisdom within business law, such as the presumed optimality of ex ante agreements. Existing research, however, does not adequately address the extent to which people manifest endowment effects within agency relationships. This article presents an experimental test for endowment effects for subjects situated in an …
It's A Question Of Market Access, Kyle W. Bagwell, Robert W. Staiger, Petros C. Mavroidis
It's A Question Of Market Access, Kyle W. Bagwell, Robert W. Staiger, Petros C. Mavroidis
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In this paper, we argue that market access issues associated with the question of the optimal mandate of the World Trade Organization should be separated from nonmarket access issues. We identify race-to-the-bottom and regulatory-chill concerns as market access issues and suggest that the WTIO should address these concerns. We then describe ways that WTO principles and procedures might be augmented to do so. As for nonmarket access issues, we argue that as a general matter these are best handled outside the WTO, and that, while implicit links might be encouraged, explicit links between the WTO and other labor and environmental …
Understanding Enron: "It's About Gatekeepers, Stupid", John C. Coffee Jr.
Understanding Enron: "It's About Gatekeepers, Stupid", John C. Coffee Jr.
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What do we know after Enron's implosion that we did not know before it? The conventional wisdom is that the Enron debacle reveals basic weaknesses in our contemporary system of corporate governance. Perhaps, this is so, but where is the weakness located? Under what circumstances will critical systems fail? Major debacles of historical dimensions – and Enron is surely that – tend to produce an excess of explanations. In Enron's case, the firm's strange failure is becoming a virtual Rorschach test in which each commentator can see evidence confirming what he or she already believed.
Economic Development, Competition Policy, And The World Trade Organization, Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis
Economic Development, Competition Policy, And The World Trade Organization, Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis
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At the recent WTO ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of negotiations on disciplines relating to competition, on the basis of explicit consensus on modalities to be agreed at the 5th WTO ministerial in 2003. Discussions in WTO since 1997 have revealed little support for ambitious multilateral action. Proponents of WTO antitrust disciplines currently propose an agreement that is limited to ‘core principles’ – nondiscrimination, transparency, and provisions banning ‘hard core’ cartels. We argue that an agreement along such lines will create compliance costs for developing countries while not addressing the anticompetitive behavior of firms …
Playing Favorites With Shareholders, Stephen J. Choi, Eric Talley
Playing Favorites With Shareholders, Stephen J. Choi, Eric Talley
Faculty Scholarship
One of the most vexing historical debates in corporate law concerns whether regulations or markets are better equipped to address managerial agency costs within public corporations. Although corporate law scholars have traditionally favored immutable legal imperatives as an elixir for misaligned incentives,an increasing number of commentators place greater faith in market mechanisms to accomplish the same task. While many such mechanisms operate simultaneously (including markets for output, labor, and capital), perhaps none has received more attention than the oft-celebrated "market for corporate control" as a means for achieving deterrence. By providing a constant and credible risk of hostile acquisitions, the …
The Community Economic Development Movement, William H. Simon
The Community Economic Development Movement, William H. Simon
Faculty Scholarship
Within a five-minute walk of the Stony Brook subway stop in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, you can encounter the following:
- A renovated industrial site of about five acres and sixteen buildings that serves as a business incubator for small firms that receive technical assistance from the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC), a nonprofit community development corporation, which is also housed there. Known as the Brewery after its former proprietor, a beer-maker, the complex is owned by a nonprofit subsidiary of JPNDC.
- A 44,000-foot "Stop & Shop" supermarket. The market opened in 1991 after years in which the …
On The Demise Of Shareholder Primacy ( Or, Murder On The James Trains Express), Eric Talley
On The Demise Of Shareholder Primacy ( Or, Murder On The James Trains Express), Eric Talley
Faculty Scholarship
The hypothetical introduced by Vice Chancellor Leo Strine's Essay exposes an important arena of corporate governance where adherence to the traditional norm of "shareholder primacy" is particularly troublesome. In fact, it is hard to find an analogous domain of corporate governance law that is as jarringly discontinuous as that found in the factual circumstances suggested by Strine's hypothetical. Explicitly, the legal scrutiny accorded to managers who resist a hostile acquisition depends critically on whether a court invokes the Revlon doctrine or the Unocal doctrine as the appropriate governing standard. Under the former (and its progeny), shareholder primacy arguments carry …
Equity And Efficiency In Markets For Ideas, Richard Adelstein
Equity And Efficiency In Markets For Ideas, Richard Adelstein
Richard Adelstein
Intellectual property and patent protection in light of the AIDS crisis in Africa.
A New Old Look At Terrorism Insurance: Jack Hirshleifer’S War Damages Insurance After 50 Years [Essay On War Damages Insurance, By Jack Hirshleifer, 35 Rev. Econ. & Statist. 144 (1953)], Peter Siegelman
Peter Siegelman
No abstract provided.
James Heckman As A Law & Society Scholar: An Outsider’S Appreciation, Peter Siegelman
James Heckman As A Law & Society Scholar: An Outsider’S Appreciation, Peter Siegelman
Peter Siegelman
No abstract provided.
Análisis Comparativo De La Defensa Constitucional Del Derecho A La Educación En España Y En México, Juan Pablo Pampillo
Análisis Comparativo De La Defensa Constitucional Del Derecho A La Educación En España Y En México, Juan Pablo Pampillo
Dr. Juan Pablo Pampillo Baliño
No abstract provided.
La Emergencia Económica Y El Derecho Del Consumidor, Martin Paolantonio
La Emergencia Económica Y El Derecho Del Consumidor, Martin Paolantonio
Martin Paolantonio
Análisis de los efectos negativos de la legislación de emergencia económica y su separación conceptual de la normativa de tutela del consumidor
Book Review (Reviewing Vera Gowlland-Debbas Ed., United Nations Sanctions In International Law (2001) And Paul Conlon, United Nations Sanctions Management: A Case Study Of The Iraq Sanctions Committee, 1990-1994 (2000)), Bartram Brown
Bartram Brown
No abstract provided.
Towards An Integrated Theory Of Intellectual Property, Gideon Parchomovsky, Peter Siegelman
Towards An Integrated Theory Of Intellectual Property, Gideon Parchomovsky, Peter Siegelman
Peter Siegelman
No abstract provided.
Publicly Financed Sports Facilities: Are They Economically Justifiable? A Case Study Of The Los Angeles Staples Center, Matthew J. Parlow
Publicly Financed Sports Facilities: Are They Economically Justifiable? A Case Study Of The Los Angeles Staples Center, Matthew J. Parlow
Matthew Parlow
O Princípio Da Eficiência E O Software Livre, Ivo T. Gico
O Princípio Da Eficiência E O Software Livre, Ivo T. Gico
Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.
O presente artigo visa a incitar o debate acerca da adoção do software livre pela Administração Pública em respeito ao princípio da efetividade, inscrito no art. 37 da Constituição Federal.
This article goal is to encourage discussion about the adoption of free software by the government regarding the principle of effectiveness included in Art. 37 of the Federal Constitution.