In a recent feature published by the Washington Legal Foundation, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge casts a jaundiced eye toward Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recent ruling in In re McDonald's Corp. Stockholder Deriv. Litig., C.A. No....
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Professor Alexander I. Platt at the University of Kansas School of Law has just released a draft of a forthcoming paper that takes the Securities and Exchange Commission to task for the lack of transparency in its whistleblower program, Going...
In the face of the rising popularity of stakeholderism, Professor Stephen Bainbridge has determined to "stand athwart the tracks of corporate governance and yell 'stop' as the stakeholder capitalism train pulls out of the station". He is doing so in...
Born at the end of the 19th century, Paul Mason worked for the California legislature and Governor Goodwin Knight. In 1935, he published Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure, which is commonly known as Mason's Manual. After Mr. Mason's death in...
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The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation recently issued a warning about "individual or individuals on YouTube claiming that individuals can form their own “private banks” and become “individual bankers” to obtain various...
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Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recently ruled that McDonald's Corporation's former Executive Vice President and Global ChiefPeople Officer, David Fairhurst, owed a duty of oversight comparable to the duty articulated by Chancellor Allen in In re...
Nearly a century ago, Benjamin Cardozo waxed eloquent regarding the fiduciary obligation of co-venturers:
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