From a macrosociological perspective, law is an institution of society, is shaped by conditions in society, and facilitates social life by inter alia producing symbols. Law accordingly adopts concepts and principles that focus on the appearance to society of certain phenomena and that are...

Section 35(d) of the Investment Company Act authorizes the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the names of investment companies that are registered with the Commission, and bars registered investment companies - the vast majority of which are mutual funds - from using names that...

An investment company that must register with the Securities and Exchange Commission is required by the Investment Company Act to have a specified percentage or number of directors who are not quot;interestedquot; in the company. To be not interested (i.e., to be independent), a director of an...

The article proposes and develops a concept - social productivity - to complement the widely used concepts of social capital and economic productivity. All three concepts are concerned with structured groups, which include organizations, institutions, and societies. However, while social capital...