The Federalization of Corporate Governance
Marc I. Steinberg
Abstract
This book focuses on a very timely subject: the federalization of corporate governance. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book addresses the federalization of corporate governance in the United States. Although the states traditionally have regulated the sphere of corporate governance—encompassing the relations among and between the subject corporation, its directors, its officers, its stockholders, and other stakeholders—federal law today impacts the governance of publicly-traded companies to a greater degree than ever before in U.S. history. This book thus focuses on th ... More
This book focuses on a very timely subject: the federalization of corporate governance. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book addresses the federalization of corporate governance in the United States. Although the states traditionally have regulated the sphere of corporate governance—encompassing the relations among and between the subject corporation, its directors, its officers, its stockholders, and other stakeholders—federal law today impacts the governance of publicly-traded companies to a greater degree than ever before in U.S. history. This book thus focuses on the evolution and development of corporate governance from a federal law perspective from the commencement of the twentieth century to the present. The book examines the tension between state company law and federal law, historically analyzes the federal developments, explains the ramifications of the federal legislation enacted during the past two decades, and recommends corrective measures that should be implemented. The book accordingly provides an original, historical, and contemporary analysis of the federalization of corporate governance—a subject that impacts this country’s economic well-being in a very fundamental way.
Keywords:
corporate governance,
federalization,
states,
company law,
federal developments
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199934546 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199934546.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Marc I. Steinberg, author
Radford Professor of Law, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
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