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Dilloff, Neil Joel - 2014

When a client proudly announces that he has been named director of a prominent local corporation or financial institution, a red warning light ought to go on. Heartily congratulate the client on this distinction, then ask, "Are you aware of the responsibilities and liabilities of a director?" If...

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Shifting Contours of Directors’ Fiduciary Duties and Norms in Comparative Corporate Governance

Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020

Corporate law and corporate governance are often called upon to address problems in international and transnational contexts. Financial markets are global and the problems in those markets are often similar, if not identical, even though the capital market structure across jurisdictions differs...

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A Difficult Conversation : Corporate Directors on Race and Gender

Krawiec, Kimberly D.; Conley, John M.; Broome, Lissa L. - 2014

This symposium essay summarizes our ongoing ethnographic research on corporate board diversity, discussing the central tension in our respondents’ views – their overwhelmingly enthusiastic support of board diversity coupled with an inability to articulate coherent accounts of board diversity...

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The Role and Obligations of Non-Executive Directors Under Maltese Law

Grech, Emma - 2013

The corporate governance debate has, in the last two decades, reached a stronghold in Europe. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of a company's governance is the constitution of its boardroom. Non-executive directors, in their independent and impartial, supposedly external nature, serve to keep...

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The Danger of Difference : Tensions in Directors’ Views of Corporate Board Diversity

Krawiec, Kimberly D. - 2014

This Article describes the results from fifty-seven interviews with corporate directors and a limited number of other persons (including institutional investors, search firm personnel, and the like) regarding their views on corporate board diversity. It highlights numerous tensions in these...

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The Duty of Care of Bank Directors and Officers

Hill, Julie Andersen - 2017

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) brought numerous lawsuits against directors and officers of failed banks asserting that they had breached their fiduciary duty of care. Under state corporate law, duty of care claims arise in...

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Book Reviews : Directors Duties During Insolvency (2nd) by Allens Arthur Robinson, 2007 & Company Directors' Responsibilities to Creditors by Keay A, 2006

Dickfos, Jennifer - 2013

This review considers two recently published texts, Company Directors' Responsibilities to Creditors by Andrew Keay, hereafter identified as Keay's text, and Directors' Duties During Insolvency by Allens Arthur Robinson, hereafter identified as Allens' text. Where possible comparisons are drawn...

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Expert Directors

Edwards, Martin - 2019

Corporate boards of directors mediate the agency costs between the corporation's managers and shareholders. For boards … independent director. Indeed, it is important that boards have independent directors to deal with clear conflicts between managers …, the board's general business skills and experience are insufficient to discern whether the managers' course of action is …

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The basic governance structure of public corporations : the interests of shareholders as a class

Armour, John; Enriques, Luca; Hansmann, Henry B.; … - 2017

This paper is the third chapter of the third edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda Mariana Pargendler, Georg Ringe, and Edward Rock...

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Disclosing Directors

Marchetti, Piergaetano; Siciliano, Gianfranco; … - 2018

Is there a correlation between the composition of the board of directors and the quantity and quality of information disclosed to the market, and in particular with respect to the disclosure of privileged, price-sensitive information? Our work examines this question with respect to the Italian...

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