Most listed firms are freestanding in the U.S, while listed firms in other countries often belong to business groups: lasting structures in which listed...
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This essay is a contribution to the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance edited by Jeffery Gordon and Georg...
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In many parts of the world, it is commonplace for wealthy families and successful entrepreneurs to parlay a relatively small financial investment into...
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The most enduring and widespread academic disputes in American corporate law concern jurisdictional competition. Scholars have debated, at great...
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Directors’ duties are a core element of corporate governance, yet a range of legal safe harbours ultimately shape the contours and stringency of these...
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“Corporate governance” first came into vogue in the 1970s in the United States. Within 25 years corporate governance had become the subject of...
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This paper, prepared for a University of Illinois College of Law symposium honoring Prof. Larry Ribstein, deals with the historical development of...
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Over 20 years, M&A contracts have more than doubled in size ? from 35 to 88 single-spaced pages in this paper?s font. They have also grown...
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This paper investigates how the rules that corporations wrote for themselves related to their financing and performance in an environment...
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