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Senior Corporate Officers And The Duty Of Candor: Do The Ceo And Dfo Have A Duty To Inform?, Z. Jill Barclift
Senior Corporate Officers And The Duty Of Candor: Do The Ceo And Dfo Have A Duty To Inform?, Z. Jill Barclift
Faculty Scholarship
This article focuses on the duty to inform as a framework to assess liability of senior officers of public companies who withhold information from directors. The broadening of the definition of the duty to inform that senior officers owe directors to include an underlying affirmative duty to provide information, even when director or shareholder action is not requested, offers an opportunity for greater monitoring of corporate governance by focusing on those often most culpable. Currently, the plain language of Delaware’s delegation of authority statute protects directors who reasonably rely in good faith on the reports of corporate officers. However, officers’ …
Daedalean Tinkering, Sean J. Griffith
Daedalean Tinkering, Sean J. Griffith
Michigan Law Review
Part I of this Review describes Skeel's account of corporate scandal, focusing on the central theme of excessive risk-taking. Part II examines Skeel's most original policy proposal-the creation of an investor insurance scheme to protect against excessive risk. Although the proposal takes up only a few pages of the book, it targets the books' core concern-the risk of corporate fraud. In evaluating the proposed investor insurance regime, this Review raises a set of objections based on cost and administrability and argues that an insurance regime would be duplicative of existing mechanisms that effectively spread the risk of financial fraud. Part …