Browsing by Author "Cox, James D."

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    • Corporate Darwinism 
      Thomas, Randall S.; Cox, James D. (North Carolina Law Review, 2016)
      Because representative shareholder litigation has been constrained by numerous legal developments, the corporate governance system has developed new mechanisms as alternative means to address managerial agency costs. We ...
    • Delaware's Retreat 
      Thomas, Randall S.; Cox, James D. (Delaware Journal of Corporation Law, 2018)
      The 1980’s is appropriately considered the Golden Age of Delaware corporate law. Within that era, the Delaware courts won international attention by not just erecting the legal pillars that frame today’s corporate governance ...
    • Quieting the Shareholders' Voice 
      Thomas, Randall S.; Cox, James D.; Ferri, Fabrizio; Honigsberg, Colleen (Southern California Law Review, 2016)
      The integrity of shareholder voting is critical to the legitimacy of corporate law. One threat to this process is proxy “bundling,” or the joinder of more than one separate item into a single proxy proposal. Bundling ...
    • A Revised Monitoring Model Confronts Today's Movement Toward Managerialism 
      Thomas, Randall S.; Cox, James D. (Texas Law Review, 2021)
      There are many lessons to be drawn from the sweep of history. In law, the compelling story repeatedly told is the observable co-movement of law on the one hand, and economic, social, and political changes on the other hand. ...
    • Revolving Elites: The Unexplored Risk of Capturing the SEC 
      Thomas, Randall S.; Cox, James D. (Georgetown Law Journal, 2019)
      Fears have abounded for years that the sweet spot for capture of regulatory agencies is the "revolving door" whereby civil servants migrate from their roles as regulators to private industry. Recent scholarship on this ...
    • There are Plaintiffs and . . . There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Cox, James D.; Bai, Lynn (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
      In this paper, we examine the impact of the PSLRA and more particularly the impact the type of lead plaintiff on the size of settlements in securities fraud class actions. We thus provide insight into whether the type of ...
    • Understanding the (Ir)relevance of Shareholder Votes on M&A Deals 
      Thomas, Randall S.; Cox, James D.; Mondino, Tomas J. (Duke Law Journal, 2019)
      Has corporate law and its bundles of fiduciary obligations become irrelevant? Over the last thirty years, the American public corporation has undergone a profound metamorphosis, transforming itself from a business with ...