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The Zen Of Corporate Capital Structure Neutrality, Herwig J. Schlunk Nov 2000

The Zen Of Corporate Capital Structure Neutrality, Herwig J. Schlunk

Michigan Law Review

It is well understood that corporate capital structure affects tax collections. Most basically, corporate interest expense is deductible. With each interest accrual, the corporate tax base shrinks. Thus, there is a broad range of circumstances in which corporate managers are encouraged by the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") to load their corporate capital structures with debt. But there is little support for the proposition that Conpress desires corporations to adopt such debt-laden capital structures. Indeed, much tax legislation suggests congressional displeasure with the achievable degree of corporate self- integration. On the other hand, corporate equity has its charms: shareholders are …


Cross-Border Derivative Accounting And Disclosure Requirements: Do The New Requirements Really Provide Useful Information To The Financial Statement Users?, Jennifer Ottosen Apr 2000

Cross-Border Derivative Accounting And Disclosure Requirements: Do The New Requirements Really Provide Useful Information To The Financial Statement Users?, Jennifer Ottosen

University of Miami Business Law Review

No abstract provided.


Forgiveness And Justice, Benjamin C. Zipursky Jan 2000

Forgiveness And Justice, Benjamin C. Zipursky

Fordham Urban Law Journal

A panel discussion of professors and audience members, discussing whether forgiveness has a place in the law and what that place is. Includes comments by panelists Benjamin C. Zipursky (moderator), Douglas B. Ammar, John Q. Barrett, Frederick W. Gay, David M. Lerman and Margaret Colgate Love, as well as comments and questions from audience members.


Forgiveness, Reconciliation And Responding To Evil: A Philosophical Overview, Jeffrie G. Murphy Jan 2000

Forgiveness, Reconciliation And Responding To Evil: A Philosophical Overview, Jeffrie G. Murphy

Fordham Urban Law Journal

A discussion of the nature of forgiveness and its place in the law. This keynote address touches on the nature of forgiveness, dangers of hasty forgiveness, forgiveness as a virtue, forgiveness and Christianity


Welcoming Remarks, John Ferrick Jan 2000

Welcoming Remarks, John Ferrick

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Opening remarks of Dean John Ferrick at the Ninth Annual Stein Center Symposium on the Role of Forgiveness in the Law.


Forgiveness, Reconciliation And Responding To Evil: A Philosophical Overview, Jeffrie G. Murphy Jan 2000

Forgiveness, Reconciliation And Responding To Evil: A Philosophical Overview, Jeffrie G. Murphy

Fordham Urban Law Journal

A discussion of the nature of forgiveness and its place in the law. This keynote address touches on the nature of forgiveness, dangers of hasty forgiveness, forgiveness as a virtue, forgiveness and Christianity


Welcoming Remarks, John Ferrick Jan 2000

Welcoming Remarks, John Ferrick

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Opening remarks of Dean John Ferrick at the Ninth Annual Stein Center Symposium on the Role of Forgiveness in the Law.


California Board Of Accountancy, Shirley S. Prasad, J. D. Fellmeth Jan 2000

California Board Of Accountancy, Shirley S. Prasad, J. D. Fellmeth

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Bureau Of State Audits, J. D. Fellmeth Jan 2000

Bureau Of State Audits, J. D. Fellmeth

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Forgiveness And Justice, Benjamin C. Zipursky Jan 2000

Forgiveness And Justice, Benjamin C. Zipursky

Fordham Urban Law Journal

A panel discussion of professors and audience members, discussing whether forgiveness has a place in the law and what that place is. Includes comments by panelists Benjamin C. Zipursky (moderator), Douglas B. Ammar, John Q. Barrett, Frederick W. Gay, David M. Lerman and Margaret Colgate Love, as well as comments and questions from audience members.


Transparency And Accountability: Rethinking Corporate Fiduciary Law's Relevance To Disclosure, Faith Stevelman Jan 2000

Transparency And Accountability: Rethinking Corporate Fiduciary Law's Relevance To Disclosure, Faith Stevelman

Articles & Chapters

This article explores the duty of “disclosure/complete candor” (among directors, from boards to shareholders and from controllers to minority shareholders) within state corporate fiduciary law (especially Delaware’s, the most developed). It observes the odd minimization of the candor/disclosure duty within the core doctrines of fiduciary care, loyalty and good faith. It analyzes the evolution of the fiduciary disclosure duty and its “moment of truth” in the watershed litigation in Malone v. Brincat. The belated appearance of the fiduciary disclosure duty is partly the result of historical, customary and political understandings which have dwarfed logic and conceptual coherence in this area …