When are shareholders empowered to remove directors from office? This is an important governance issue and is related to the balance of power between shareholders and directors. In the case of a public company, s 203D(1) of the Australian Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) provides that shareholders...

In Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores,Inc. the Obama Administration contends that for-profit corporations are not “persons” under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”) and thus cannot avail themselves of RFRA's protections. In a brief amicus curiae, 44 scholars of corporate and...

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For more than a century, the corporation has shaped our thinking of organizations. This deeply institutionalized form is still regarded as both the iconic business organization and the core structural unit of our economic order. Today, however, it stands at a crossroads. Economic, social, and...