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Volume 74, Number 6 Category

Team Production Revisited

Nov. 24, 2021—William W. Bratton | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1539 (2021) | This Article reconsiders Margaret Blair and Lynn Stout’s team production model of corporate law, offering a favorable evaluation. The model explains both the legal corporate entity and corporate governance institutions in microeconomic terms as the means to the end of encouraging investment, situating corporations within...

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Team Production Theory Across the Waves

Nov. 24, 2021—Brian R. Cheffins & Richard Williams | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1583 (2021) | Team production theory, which Margaret Blair developed in tandem with Lynn Stout, has had a major impact on corporate law scholarship. The team production model, however, has been applied sparingly outside the United States. This article, part of a symposium honoring Margaret...

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Worker Voice and Corporate Governance: Putting Words into Actions

Nov. 24, 2021—Thomas A. Kochan | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1625 (2021) | The encouraging news is that in 2019 the Business Roundtable recanted on its 1997 statement. Its members recognized that prioritizing shareholder value had gone too far; now they again endorsed the principle that a corporation should be held responsible for addressing the interests of not...

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What Was the Dartmouth College Case Really About?

Nov. 24, 2021—Charles R. T. O’Kelley | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1645 (2021) | In 1769, King George III issued a Royal Charter incorporating twelve persons as The Trustees of Dartmouth College with the right of self-perpetuation. The charter also identified one of the trustees, Eleazar Wheelock, as the founder and initial president of the corporation, with the right...

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Corporate Personhood and Limited Sovereignty

Nov. 24, 2021—Elizabeth Pollman | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1727 (2021) | This Article, written for a symposium celebrating the work of Professor Margaret Blair, examines how corporate rights jurisprudence helped to shape the corporate form in the United States during the nineteenth century. It argues that as the corporate form became popular because of the way it...

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Dodge v. Ford: What Happened and Why?

Nov. 24, 2021—Mark J. Roe | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1755 (2021) | Behind Henry Ford’s business decisions that led to the widely taught, famous-in-law-school Dodge v. Ford shareholder primacy decision were three industrial organization structures that put Ford in a difficult business position. First, Ford Motor had a highly profitable monopoly and needed much cash for the...

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Why the Corporation Locks in Financial Capital but the Partnership Does Not

Nov. 24, 2021—Richard Squire | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1787 (2021) | Each partner in an at-will partnership can obtain a cash payout of his interest at any time. The corporation, by contrast, locks in shareholder capital, denying general payout rights to shareholders unless the charter states otherwise. What explains this difference? This Article argues that partner payout...

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The Personification of the Partnership

Nov. 24, 2021—Harwell Wells | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1835 (2021) | What does it mean to say a business association is a legal person? The question has shadowed the law of business organizations for at least two centuries. When we say a business is a legal person we may be claiming that the law distinguishes its assets,...

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Fiduciary Duties and Corporate Climate Responsibility

Nov. 24, 2021—Cynthia A. Williams | 74 Vand. L. Rev. 1875 (2021) | In this paper, I take up this question by reference to a public law issue much in focus today, that of climate change. In Part I, I provide an extremely brief overview of the understanding of climate risk as a financial risk, connecting that overview...

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