Browsing Law School by Subject "Corporate governance -- United States"

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    • Boards of Directors as Mediating Hierarchs 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950- (Seattle University Law Review, 2015)
      In June of 2014, the board of directors of Demoulas Supermarkets, Inc.-better known as Market Basket, a mid-sized chain of grocery stores in New England-decided to oust the man who had been CEO for the previous six years, ...
    • Director Accountability and the Mediating Role of the Corporate Board 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynn A., 1957- (Washington University Law Quarterly, 2001)
      One of the most pressing questions facing both corporate scholars and businesspeople today is how corporate directors can be made accountable. Before addressing this issue, however, it seems important to consider two ...
    • Dodd-Frank's Say on Pay: Will It Lead to a Greater Role for Shareholders in Corporate Governance? 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Palmiter, Alan R.; Cotter, James F. (Cornell Law Reviewhttp://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/, 2012)
      "Say on pay" gives shareholders an advisory vote on a company's pay practices for its top executives. Beginning in 2011, Dodd-Frank mandated such votes at public companies. The first year of "say on pay" under the new ...
    • Does Private Equity Create Wealth? The Effects of Private Equity and Derivatives on Corporate Governance 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Masulis, Ronald W. (University of Chicago Law Review, 2009)
      Private equity has reaped large rewards in recent years. We claim that one major reason for this success is due to the corporate governance advantages of private equity over the public corporation. We argue that the ...
    • The Evolving Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance and Corporate Litigation 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955- (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
      Each of the articles in this Symposium sheds new light on the ever-changing role of institutional investors in U.S. corporate governance and corporate litigation. They cover a broad range of topics, including institutional ...
    • Prediction Markets and Law: A Skeptical Account 
      Allensworth, Rebecca Haw (Harvard Law Review, 2009)
      Enthusiasm for "many minds" arguments has infected legal academia. Scholars now champion the virtues of groupthink, something once thought to have only vices. It turns out that groups often outperform individuals in ...
    • Reforming Corporate Governance: What History Can Teach Us 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950- (Berkeley Business Law Journal, 2004)
      In this Article, I turn to the history of corporate law for insight into the role that the corporate form plays in the organization of business enterprises. I then draw implications from this history for thinking about ...
    • Shareholder Voting in an Age of Intermediary Capitalism 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Thompson, Robert B., 1949- (Southern California Law Review, 2014)
      Shareholder voting is a key part of contemporary American corporate governance. As numerous contemporary battles between corporate management and shareholders illustrate, voting has never been more important. Yet, traditional ...
    • Specific Investment and Corporate Law 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynne A., 1957- (European Business Organization Law Review, 2006)
      At the close of the twentieth century, U.S. corporate scholarship was dominated by a principal-agent paradigm that assumed that shareholders were the principals or sole residual claimants in public corporations, and also ...
    • Team Production in Business Organizations: An Introduction 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynne A., 1957- (Journal of Corporation Law, 1999)
      For the past two decades, legal and economic scholarship has tended to assume that the central economic problem addressed by corporation law is getting managers and directors to act as faithful agents for shareholders. ...
    • Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Law 
      Blair, Margaret M., 1950-; Stout, Lynne A., 1957- (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2001)
      Conventional legal and economic analysis assumes that opportunistic behavior is discouraged and cooperation encouraged within firms primarily through the use of legal and market incentives. This presumption is embodied in ...