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Shareholder Voting in Proxy Contests for Corporate Control, Uncontested Director Elections and Management Proposals
(Oklahoma Law Review, 2017)
This paper surveys the empirical literature on shareholder voting, specifically on votes related to contested and uncontested director elections and on management proposals. While much of current theory depicts shareholder ...
The Fiscal Illusion Zombie
(American University Law Review, 2017)
This is a Response to Bethany R. Berger's recent Article, The Illusion of Fiscal Illusion in Regulatory Takings. In that Article, Professor Berger argues against the view that governments should be forced to compensate ...
The Reasonable Investor of Federal Securities Law
(The Journal of Corporation Law, 2017)
Federal securities law defines the materiality of corporate disclosures by reference to the views of a hypothetical “reasonable investor.” For decades the reasonable investor standard has been a flashpoint for debate — ...
Foxes at the Henhouse: Occupational Licensing Boards Up Close
(California Law Review, 2017)
The dark side of occupational licensing-its tendency to raise prices to consumers with dubious effects on service quality, its enormous payout to licensees, and its ability to shut many willing workers out of the workforce-has ...
The Inference from Authority to Interpretive Method in Constitutional and Statutory Domains
(Cornell Law Review, 2017)
Should courts interpret the Constitution as they interpret statutes? This question has been answered in a wide variety of ways. On the one hand, many scholars and jurists understand constitutional and statutory interpretation ...
Organizational Law as Commitment Device
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2017)
What is the essential role of the law of enterprise organization? The dominant view among business law scholars today is that organizational law — the law of partnerships, corporations, private trusts, and their variants ...
Increasing Diversity by a New Master's Degree in Legal Principles
(Journal of Legal Education, 2017)
Students who leave their JD program before graduation leave empty handed, without an additional degree or other credential indicating that their law school studies had any professional, educational, or marketable value. ...