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11 Sep, 2008 3:04 pm by Jeffrey N. Gordon, Columbia Law School,
... Court should not accept this invitation to expand considerably companies' power to exclude proposals. The corporate and securities law professors joining this brief as amici, listed alphabetically, are: Robert ... Law George W. Dent, Jr. Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Organizations Law Case Western Reserve University School of Law John J. Donohue ... Law Foundation Professor of Law University of Houston Law Center Mark J. Roe David Berg Professor of Law Harvard Law School Kenneth E. Scott ...
The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov
20 Sep, 2008 12:16 pm
... themselves have become increasingly regularized-the community of nations has begun to move from an acceptance of constitution as a means of organizing political communities to constitutionalism as a system for the regulation of the constitution of communities with political authority. (Backer 2008). In this ... in Trust, 44 Harv. L. Rev. 1049 (1931). A. Crane, et al., Corporations and Citizenship: Business, Responsibility and Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Lynne L. Dallas, ...
Tags: Internatonal
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com
29 Oct, 2007 8:03 pm
... part. Among the leading efforts of such groups are the United Nation's Global Compact and the Organization for Economic Development and Co-Operation, Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Bt the private sector, and especially the ... that engage in significant amounts of transnational business. However, it has proven to be less useful in the management of multinational corporations and similar entities. The principal problem has been a matter of territorial disjunction. The regulatory power of ...
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com
... ban on deprivation of property without due process or equal protection of the law has been consistently applied to property of corporations and natural persons alike. However prior to Bellottii there was never any hint that the purely ... activism in Bellotti has not stood the test of time. The notion that artificial legal entities organized to facilitate the transaction of business and the accumulation of wealth should have constitutionally protected rights that the Framers believed came to human ...
The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov
... three organized interest groups for influence over politicians setting the level of investor protection. This investor protection level determines the extent to which "corporate insiders" - managers and ... but also the allocation of rents from the capital that public firms already have (Bebchuk and Roe (1999), La Porta et al. (2000), Stulz (2005)). The struggle over ... good economic outcomes such as well-developed stock markets and higher levels of economic growth (see, e.g., La Porta et al. 1998, 1999a ...
The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov
29 Jul, 2007 11:08 pm by Gordon Smith
... Law & Society Annual Meeting in Berlin, I attended/participated in three panels on comparative corporate governance, which I had organized with John Ohnesorge (Wisconsin) and Andreas Engert (Munich). Our goal was to showcase some of the new generation of ... governance scholarship has been on the rise in the US. We are familiar with the work of American scholars like Mark Roe, Ron Gilson, and Bernie Black, as well as some prominent scholars from outside the US (Theodor Baums, Katherina Pistor, ...
Tags: Comparative
Conglomerate - http://www.theconglomerate.org/
28 Jun, 2007 11:47 am by sunstein
... . By contrast, Scalia and Thomas insisted that the court should give broad protection to corporate advertisements and immediately overrule several recent precedents, including the major 2003 decision upholding the McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation. ... court ruled that taxpayers have "standing" to object when Congress has explicitly allocated taxpayer funds to religious organizations. Relying on Flast, taxpayers challenged the Bush administration's use of public money, through its Faith- ...
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog - http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/
28 Jun, 2007 11:47 am by sunstein
... . By contrast, Scalia and Thomas insisted that the court should give broad protection to corporate advertisements and immediately overrule several recent precedents, including the major 2003 decision upholding the McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation. ... court ruled that taxpayers have "standing" to object when Congress has explicitly allocated taxpayer funds to religious organizations. Relying on Flast, taxpayers challenged the Bush administration's use of public money, through its Faith- ...
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog - http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/
16 Sep, 2008 5:34 pm by Tom Smith
I'm going to be taking another closer look at Larry Ribstein's ideas about non-corporate forms. (hat tip RG) Quite a few years ago, I got a notion that the US economy has gotten off on ... because of the corporate form. Then I sort of gave up on this line of thought as I thought it had been preempted by Mark Roe et al., though my ideas were somewhat different. The suggestion that private equity funds and hedge funds -type modes of organization might expose the financial system to less systemic risk ...
The Right Coast - http://rightcoast.typepad.com/rightcoast/
28 Aug, 2007 1:39 pm by Steve Bainbridge
... to corporate governance is that the separation of ownership and control is not a new phenomenon. (See, e.g., the discussion in The Politics of Corporate Governance: Roe's Strong Managers, Weak Owners.) So I was very interested in Nate Oman's post Virginia and the Birth of Corporate Law, in which he writes: Virginia was organized by a royal charter that gave the [Virginia Company] a corporate existence, set up its governing structure, ...
Tags: Business
ProfessorBainbridge.com - http://www.professorbainbridge.com/
31 Dec, 2006 9:04 am by Larry Catá Backer
... nations--George Washington and Simon Bolivar, to sketch the fundamental distinctions between North and South American political culture. (Juan Montalvo, Los héroes de la emancipación de la raza hispanoamericana, in Siete Tratados (Paris, 1883) reproduced ... of politico-cultural reality, may find it harder to build the foundations for behavior in which the interests of a principal (the state, the corporation, etc.) is put before one's own personal interests. I do not mean to suggest any judgment ...
Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com
1 Feb, 2007 10:05 pm
... now specialize on particular fields like election law, disability law, corporate law, and tax law. Brian Leiter [http://leiterreports.typepad.com/] at the University of Texas ... abortion ban. I'd been following the South Dakota referendum, first, because it's in the morning papers, second, because I'm working on a book on Roe v. Wade ... problems to me. I'm in charge of making sure that the page looks clean and well organized, but it's not particularly difficult programming; it requires basic knowledge ...
Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com
30 Jan, 2008 7:35 am
... , No. 06-4997 "Convictions and sentence based on conviction for providing material support to terrorists or terrorist organizations is vacated as to defendant's sentence as the district court failed to make the factual findings necessary to impose the U.S.S.G. section ... January 22, 2008 People v. Morton, No. G036413 S"entence based on conviction for domestic battery with corporal injury and misdemeanor assault is reaffirmed over claim that the court erred by following People v. Black (2005) 35 Cal ...
Criminal Law Library Blog - http://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com/
4 Oct, 2008 6:05 am by Guest Blogger
... to people "recognizing" their interests, when in fact we know that people's interests and concerns are constructed by the very movements and organizations that claim to represent them. Public opinion is constructed by many inputs, none greater than those ... to give the flavor of the variety). Pressure from this coalition won tougher guidelines from the city's Health and Hospital Corporation in 1977. Nationally the larger coalition forced HEW to issue regulations in 1974 and tougher ones in 1978, ...
Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com
2 Jan 10:16 am by Mark Roe, Harvard Law School,
... focuses on a long-standing academic inquiry into the nature of state-to-state competition for chartering revenues and the making of corporate law. While the existence of state competition has long been posited - with the controversy being ... that the odds of substantial partial displacement are not. I then draw parallels between these ideas and those in the industrial organization, antitrust literature on contestable markets: in contestable market analysis, a single producer can dominate a market ...
The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov
29 Dec, 2008 6:08 am
... court-martial he suffered, when the law for convening his court-martial and directing its proceedings and organization were so blatantly disregarded. In Ray's general court- ... (ROE) varied depending upon the operational command level. Ray's squad deployed against the Multhana Chemical Complex production facility after U.S and ... established Army practice of dissemination of false information (recall Abu Ghraib and Army Corporal Pat Tillman). Ray's court-martial is completely consistent with the Army ...
The JAG Hunter - http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/index.html
11 Jan, 2008 10:37 am
... normal text. Below you'll find excerpts from the report. State and national consumer organizations joined the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) today to release a new ... surplus. Many insurers are engaged in massive stock buy-back programs and the purchase of other corporations with this excess capital. Insurance chief executive officers now have ... point drop from 2000. The 2005 New York loss ratio was the lowest in the nation and was 11.8 percentage points below the nationwide loss ratio of 60.2 ...
No-Fault Paradise - http://nofaultparadise.blogspot.com/index.html
17 Dec, 2006 10:48 am by Lawrence Solum
... feedback (or self-reinforcement) involves the idea that as time progresses, the relative benefit of maintaining some feature of the system (and hence the relatively costliness of modifying or eliminating that feature) increases. Once a constitution has been adopted and gone into ... example is provided by a recent article by Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Mark J. Roe. They argue that initial decisions made about the form of corporate organization create path dependencies--making changes in form more costly ...
Legal Theory Blog - http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/
11 Nov, 2007 11:31 am by Lawrence Solum
... feedback (or self-reinforcement) involves the idea that as time progresses, the relative benefit of maintaining some feature of the system (and hence the relatively costliness of modifying or eliminating that feature) increases. Once a constitution has been adopted and gone into ... example is provided by a recent article by Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Mark J. Roe. They argue that initial decisions made about the form of corporate organization create path dependencies--making changes in form more costly ...
Legal Theory Blog - http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/
1 Feb 2:42 am by Lawrence Solum
... feedback (or self-reinforcement) involves the idea that as time progresses, the relative benefit of maintaining some feature of the system (and hence the relatively costliness of modifying or eliminating that feature) increases. Once a constitution has been adopted and gone into ... example is provided by a recent article by Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Mark J. Roe. They argue that initial decisions made about the form of corporate organization create path dependencies--making changes in form more costly ...
Legal Theory Blog - http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/
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