This chapter addresses the myth of decentralized governance of public blockchains, arguing that certain people who create, operate, or reshape them function much like fiduciaries of those who rely on these powerful data structures. Explicating the crucial functions that leading software...

Countless high-profile abuses of user data by leading technology companies have raised a basic question: should firms that traffic in user data be held legally responsible to their users as “information fiduciaries”? Privacy legislation to impose fiduciary-like duties of care,...

The forms of collateral in Burgerlijk Wetboek (pawn and mortgages) are apparently less able to facilitate the needs of Micro, Small, Medium Enterpreneurs (MSMEs) who need capital but also still need to utilize the collateral objects. Fiduciary was created to accommodate the needs of the...

The forms of collateral in Burgerlijk Wetboek (pawn and mortgages) are apparently less able to facilitate the needs of Micro, Small, Medium Enterpreneurs (MSMEs) who need capital but also still need to utilize the collateral objects. Fiduciary was created to accommodate the needs of the...

[enter Abstract Body]Climate change has emerged as a major issue of financial risk for Canadian pension funds when determining where to place investments. The author argues that while such pension funds recognize climate change as an issue that holds the potential for significant financial risk,...

Commonwealth jurisdictions face a unique risk when English authorities are misunderstood or misapplied by local courts: erroneous legal rules can quickly become entrenched in the local laws, which are difficult to undo. The Malaysian jurisprudence in relation to the liability of third parties...

Commerce and Equity have always been at crossroads with each-other and seem incomprehensible to co-exist due to their nature. While commercial environment envisages absolute contractual freedom of parties, equity has hues of paternalism to prevent abuse of power relations. A breakthrough in this...

This article will examine the fiduciary duties and disclosure obligations present in proxy and tender contests for corporate control. While the thrust of the discussion will be centered on the obligations of boards of directors and management, the roles of other participants in the process will...

We develop a model of venture capital contracting and use it to evaluate an emergent set of judicial precedents in corporate law, which we label the Trados doctrine. In our model, founders hold common stock while venture capital investors hold convertible preferred stock. We show that preferred...

Please find attached the slides I presented at the George A. Leet Symposium on Nov. 6, 2020. I am going to be revising my white paper, "The Conflict between Blackrock's Shareholder Activism and ERISA's Fiduciary Duties" based on these slides. This revised version will then be published in the...