In a recent article we criticized the traditional case for limiting shareholder liability for corporate torts and developed the case for an alternative rule of pro rata shareholder liability for tort damages exceeding a corporation\u27s net worth. We concluded by challenging the proponents of limited liability to provide further justification for their position. Two scholars accepted our challenge: Professor Janet Cooper Alexander, writing in this issue of the Harvard Law Review, and Professor Joseph A. Grundfest, writing in the Yale Law Journal
Multinational corporate groups are now the world’s dominant economic institution. In the common law ...
In a recent issue of this Journal, Carr and Mathewson (1988) test a model of the impact of limited a...
The widely-held, but empirically unsubstantiated, view is that the main advantage of limited liabili...
We had hoped that our recent article exploring a rule of pro rata shareholder liability for corporat...
Some commentators defend limited shareholder liability for torts and statutory violations as efficie...
This article reconsiders whether corporate shareholders would benefit from the application of tort l...
Limited liability in tort has been the prevailing rule for corporations in the United States, as els...
Unlimited shareholder liability would radically change the way we look at corporations. In an unlimi...
This Article evaluates the economic basis for limited liability in contractual claims and proposes t...
Debate continues to rage over limited shareholder liability and the social costs it imposes.\u27 Whi...
This article examines this dissonance between accepted theory and observed reality, between what the...
For over 30 years, unlimited liability companies have been ubiquitous in USCanadian M&A transactions...
One of the most important and firmly entrenched concepts of modern corporate law is the concept of l...
The corporate form limits the liability of shareholders and other participants arising from the ente...
The thesis of the Article is that the expansion of tort liability based on strict liability or enter...
Multinational corporate groups are now the world’s dominant economic institution. In the common law ...
In a recent issue of this Journal, Carr and Mathewson (1988) test a model of the impact of limited a...
The widely-held, but empirically unsubstantiated, view is that the main advantage of limited liabili...
We had hoped that our recent article exploring a rule of pro rata shareholder liability for corporat...
Some commentators defend limited shareholder liability for torts and statutory violations as efficie...
This article reconsiders whether corporate shareholders would benefit from the application of tort l...
Limited liability in tort has been the prevailing rule for corporations in the United States, as els...
Unlimited shareholder liability would radically change the way we look at corporations. In an unlimi...
This Article evaluates the economic basis for limited liability in contractual claims and proposes t...
Debate continues to rage over limited shareholder liability and the social costs it imposes.\u27 Whi...
This article examines this dissonance between accepted theory and observed reality, between what the...
For over 30 years, unlimited liability companies have been ubiquitous in USCanadian M&A transactions...
One of the most important and firmly entrenched concepts of modern corporate law is the concept of l...
The corporate form limits the liability of shareholders and other participants arising from the ente...
The thesis of the Article is that the expansion of tort liability based on strict liability or enter...
Multinational corporate groups are now the world’s dominant economic institution. In the common law ...
In a recent issue of this Journal, Carr and Mathewson (1988) test a model of the impact of limited a...
The widely-held, but empirically unsubstantiated, view is that the main advantage of limited liabili...