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...

In this Article, we report and analyze the results of forty-six wide-ranging interviews with corporate directors and other relevant insiders on the general topic of whether and how the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of corporate boards matters. In particular, we explore their views on...

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...

In Part I, this Article describes some of the different approaches to the lack of representation of women and minorities on corporate boards. Part II explores two aspects of proxy statement regulation -- shareholder proposals related to corporate diversity and the recent amendments to the proxy...

In this article I discuss two significant changes to financing statement requirements made by Revised Article 9 and how those changes affect “notice filing.” First, Revised section 9-504(2) permits “supergeneric” collateral indications, such as “all assets” or “all personal...

This Article explores government investment in banks and discusses some of the implications of the investments. In addition to detailing government bank stock investment during the current financial crisis, the article recounts the government's prior extensive investment in preferred stock of...

Paul J. Polking, Marion A. Cowell, Jr., and Jerone C. Herring served distinguished careers as the general counsel of North Carolina's three largest banking corporations, Bank of America, First Union (now Wachovia), and BBamp;T. The combined assets of these banks and others located in North...

This article is written on the occasion of the bicentennial of the first state banks in North Carolina, and reviews the first one hundred years of banking in the state. The article is part of a larger project exploring the reasons for the remarkable success of North Carolina banks and attempting...