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View article: Game of Thrones: Corporate Law and Bankruptcy Law in the Arena of Directors’ Liability
Game of Thrones: Corporate Law and Bankruptcy Law in the Arena of Directors’ Liability Open
A company in financial distress is bound to experience turbulence. In particular, the zone of insolvency is a crucial time in a company’s life in which conflicts of interest between shareholders, managers, and creditors are sharply enhance…
View article: When Should You Abstain? A Call for a Global Rule of Insider Trading
When Should You Abstain? A Call for a Global Rule of Insider Trading Open
The picture is so pervasive in the financial media—the CEOs of two major public corporations announcing the closure of a cross-border mega-merger—that one might be led to believe that securities regulations around the world, which govern t…
View article: The Importance of Inferior Voting Rights in Dual-Class Firms
The Importance of Inferior Voting Rights in Dual-Class Firms Open
Over the past several years, corporate law scholarship has carefully analyzed the effects of dual-class capital structures, which allocate superior voting rights to insiders and inferior voting rights to public shareholders. This Article a…
View article: The Voice: The Minority Shareholder's Perspective
The Voice: The Minority Shareholder's Perspective Open
Minority shareholders tend not to participate in the decision-making process of public companies with a controlling shareholder, and their voice is rarely heard. Even when they disagree with how the company is being managed, they prefer to…
View article: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession: On the Failure of Regulation in the Mortgage Market
From the Great Depression to the Great Recession: On the Failure of Regulation in the Mortgage Market Open
People tend to attribute the outbreak of the 2008 financial crisis to deregulation. This article challenges this view and presents a unique perspective of the crisis as in fact rooted in the way the residential mortgage market is regulated…