Spending by private health insurers exceeds $800 billion and is expected to rise. The Affordable Care Act provides $2 billion in subsidies to jump-start health insurers owned by their policyholders in an attempt to bring these costs under control. Firms with this corporate ownership structure...

Social enterprises (SE) emerge where there are opportunities to find new ways to balance otherwise competing interests and to achieve social purposes in ways that are better than and distinct from traditional approaches. Understanding whether the zoo and its elements are achieving these...

Demand and opportunities for combining pursuit of profit and social, green impact are increasing. The public sector and both aspects of the private sector – for-profit business and tax exempt, charitable enterprises – are interested in doing more and better. That includes both sectors...

This article demonstrates that social business models do not meaningfully prioritize or impose accountability to “social good” over other purposes in ways that (a) best protect against owners changing their minds or entry of new owners with different priorities and (b) enable reliable...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) is based on such ideals as amateurism, fairness, and healthy competition, and ensures compliance with those principles with a formalized system of investigation, infraction hearings, and penalties. Legal minds, as well as the direct...

Most scholars treat NGOs as a homogenous group and base their theoretical and normative arguments around such a generalization, even when recognizing that NGOs vary significantly on a number of levels. This Article seeks to advance the literature on NGO accountability by unpacking NGOs by...

Nonprofit organizations control substantial resources in our society and ostensibly have a similar structure to for profit coporations. However, because of the lack of profit motivation, there are few if any structural incentives which exist to insure that nonprofits function effectively or that...

This paper explores the history of professional formation amongst lawyers, pointing to the surprising conclusions that contemporary legal professionalism bears little continuity with supposed roots in British professionalism and that one of the major motors driving professionalism was related to...

The Northeast Regional Planning Body (NE-RPB) process should be beyond reproach with respect to ethical standards, and the public should never have reason to call into question its trust of the NE-RPB process, or the integrity of the NE-RPB to be guided by principles upon which our democratic...