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Document Discovery: The Achilles’ Heel of Shareholder Activism in Europe

13 November 2024

Alexandros Seretakis

ClientEarth-Shell: English Court Rejects Climate-Focused Shareholder Derivative Suit

1 June 2023

Umakanth Varottil

The Lost Lessons of Shareholder Derivative Suit

Many corporate law scholars watched in amazement as merger litigation exploded over the past fifteen years. In 2005, only 37 percent of mergers involving US public companies with a transaction...

2 February 2021

Jessica Erickson

Mandatory Arbitration of Intra-corporate Disputes in Brazil

Should corporate disputes be subject to mandatory arbitration? Over the last decade, the debate relating to implementing mandatory arbitration provisions in a firm’s articles or bylaws has been highly controversial....

4 September 2020

Patricia Gil Lemstra

Joseph A. McCahery

Sexual Harassment and Corporate Law

Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro became the latest corporate executive to resign amid accusations of unwanted sexual advances when he stepped down from the helm of the newspaper publishing chain in...

16 April 2018

Daniel Hemel

Dorothy S Lund

Tailoring Dispute Rules in Shareholder Litigation

As shareholder litigation expands globally and increases in economic significance, so does the interest of parties in fighting over the rules that govern it and determine its scope. Sometimes this...

12 April 2017

Matteo Gargantini

Verity Winship

Building Enforcement Capacity for Brazilian Corporate and Securities Law

The weakness of legal institutions supporting finance is a problem shared by most emerging markets, and indeed many developed markets. Prior scholarship and policy work has...

28 February 2017

John Armour

Caroline Schmidt

Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this post, I posed the question why risk-averse managers at VW might have failed to launch an internal investigation into any potential smoking guns...

18 May 2016

John Armour

Corporate Darwinism: Disciplining Managers in a World with Weak Shareholder Litigation

Corporate legal scholarship largely focuses on addressing managerial agency costs. As part of this paradigm, legal scholars examine how effectively representative litigation, whether class actions or derivative suits, control managerial...

17 March 2016

James D. Cox

Randall Thomas

Document Discovery: The Achilles’ Heel of Shareholder Activism in Europe

ClientEarth-Shell: English Court Rejects Climate-Focused Shareholder Derivative Suit

The Lost Lessons of Shareholder Derivative Suit

Mandatory Arbitration of Intra-corporate Disputes in Brazil

Sexual Harassment and Corporate Law

Tailoring Dispute Rules in Shareholder Litigation

Building Enforcement Capacity for Brazilian Corporate and Securities Law

Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 2)

Corporate Darwinism: Disciplining Managers in a World with Weak Shareholder Litigation

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