Investors are given powerful tools to recover for shareholder fraud, both by way of class action suits brought under the federal securities laws and derivative suits. Recent Supreme Court decisions however that favor mandatory arbitration may allow companies to compel their stockholders to forgo...

Based on documents collected with local community members and advocates over the course of more than a decade, this paper begins by describing the legal processes whereby the Campesino Community San Andres de Negritos allegedly “consented” to its own dispossession in favor of the large...