This article posits the relative weakness of shareholders over other stakeholder groups (particularly management) in choosing and monitoring the corporation's auditor. Specifically, it argues that shareholders' right to appoint an auditor is ineffective since management controls the appointment...

One of the most powerful mechanisms by which governments and corporations can raise capital is by offering securities to the public without an underwriter through a direct public offering (DPO). Although governments at all levels have conducted DPOs, corporations generally have not adopted the...

In Ford Motor Co. v. Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Board, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reviewed the transfer pricing arrangements between parent and subsidiaries Ford US and Ford Canada in the context of a going-private transaction. Its review was the key to resolving the two...

Anita Anand argues that Social Forums for alternative media are important political processes. They provide a valuable gathering point for many movements – all essential for the many possible worlds we can imagine and realize. The alternative medias emerging out of the Media bring a fresh...