While the financial crisis prompted this writer and Prof. Eric Pan of Cardozo Law School to write about how corporate governance law requires change to take into account outcomes as well as process in order to prevent harm to innocent bystanders – such as taxpayers – from occurring, the BP Gulf oil spill is yet […]
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Review: Rethinking the Board's Duty to Monitor
James McRitchie, 05/25/2010 ,
In “Rethinking the Board’s Duty to Monitor: A Critical Assessment of the Delaware Doctrine,” to be published in 2011 in the Florida State University Law Review (current version available ssrn.com), Prof. Eric Pan of the Cardozo Law School substantially advances the discussion of how corporate governance needs to be improved in order to minimize the […]
CEOs Running Scared in Washington
James McRitchie, 05/14/2010 ,
Businesses have intensified their efforts to kill the “proxy access” provision of the Senate’s financial regulation bill. Forty CEOs lobbied in Washington, DC last week alone. “This is our highest priority,” said John Castellani, president of the Business Roundtable, which represents 170 chief executives. Last week alone, Castellani said, 40 chief executives were in town visiting […]