The failure of corporate law : fundamental flaws and progressive possibilities / Kent Greenfield.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Corporation law -- United States.

Corporate governance -- United States.

1. September 11 and corporate law

2. Corporate law as public law

3. Workers, shareholders, and the purpose of corporations

4. Corporations and the duty to obey the law

5. Democracy and the dominance of Delaware

6. New principles, new policies

7. Corporate governance as a public policy tool

8. Workers and corporate fraud

9. Irrationality and the business judgment rule.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, public corporations were deemed to have important civic responsibilities. With The Failure of Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield hopes to return corporate law to a system in which the public has a greater say in how firms are governed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780226306933

0226306933

288 p. ; 24 cm