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Voting Trust Agreements, Maurice Finkelstein

Michigan Law Review

To the student who approaches the study of the law from the point of view of the legal philosophers-from Von Jhering to Pound-the detailed analysis of the law of private corporations in America will seem strange. Accustomed to think of law as a striving to maintain a balance such as the Poundian balance of social interests, he finds in the corporation law of the United States a co-existence of various systems without regard to the conflict of interests thereby created. Each state has its own rules of law and its own policies shaped by a medley of causes. Many states …