{"id":132177,"date":"2019-05-04T00:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/article-co-authored-by-randall-thomas-selected-as-one-of-the-top-10-corporate-and-securities-articles-for-2018-vanderbilt-news\/"},"modified":"2019-05-04T00:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:36:57","slug":"article-co-authored-by-randall-thomas-selected-as-one-of-the-top-10-corporate-and-securities-articles-for-2018-vanderbilt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/article-co-authored-by-randall-thomas-selected-as-one-of-the-top-10-corporate-and-securities-articles-for-2018-vanderbilt-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Article co-authored by Randall Thomas selected as one of the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles for 2018 | Vanderbilt News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By Grace Renshaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3127687\">\u201cDelaware\u2019s Retreat: Exploring Developing Fissures and Tectonic Shifts in Delaware Corporate Law,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0an article co-authored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.vanderbilt.edu\/bio\/randall-thomas\">Randall Thomas<\/a>, the John S. Beasley II Distinguished Professor of Law, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.duke.edu\/fac\/cox\/\">James Cox<\/a>\u00a0of Duke Law School, has been selected as one of the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles published in 2018. Selected articles are reprinted in\u00a0<em>Corporate Practice Commentator<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 13th article authored or co-authored by Thomas selected for inclusion in the annual compendium of leading scholarship in corporate law. Thomas directs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.vanderbilt.edu\/academics\/academic-programs\/law-business-program\/\">Vanderbilt\u2019s Law and Business Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelaware\u2019s Retreat\u201d was published in the\u00a0<em>Delaware Journal of Corporate Law<\/em>\u00a0(42: 323-389) in 2018. Thomas also presented the paper as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djcl.org\/symposium-lectures\">\u00a0Francis G. Pileggi Lecture in Law<\/a>\u00a0at the Widener University Delaware Law School.<\/p>\n<p>In their article, Thomas and Cox address a power struggle between corporate boards of directors and activist shareholders that played out in courts throughout the nation, and its impact on Delaware courts\u2019 accepted role of establishing and maintaining the legal precedents that undergird American corporate governance law.<\/p>\n<p>They contrast the 1980s, when four important cases\u2015<em>Revlon<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Weinberger<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Unocal<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Blasius<\/em>\u2015established solid precedents that courts applied in cases addressing corporate governance, fiduciary duties of directors, and the relationship between boards and shareholders, with the early 2000s, during which more than 96 percent of publicly disclosed mergers attracted litigation brought by shareholders. The avalanche of litigation, which was also brought in variety of venues outside of Delaware, threatened the ability of Delaware courts to maintain their long-established responsibility of providing consistent judicial oversight of corporate governance. Regulators responded by developing bylaws governing forum selection specifically designed to direct these cases back to Delaware courts, which then sought to staunch the flow of shareholder litigation by setting a high bar for plaintiffs in cases involving disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>However, Thomas and Cox contend, in recent years, the Delaware courts themselves have chipped away at the precedents set during the 1980s, which they term \u201cthe Golden Age of Delaware corporate law.\u201d Their article examines how the precedents in these four foundational cases have been weakened by subsequent Delaware Supreme Court decisions. They conclude that \u201cexisting market forces and shareholder oversight are sufficient to curtail managerial misconduct\u201d at present. However, they also emphasize that courts may need to intervene more actively again in the future if the means for effective shareholder oversight are undermined.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas note that this article sets the stage for future work in which he and Cox will explore the strengths and weaknesses of shareholder ratification votes and their use and role. \u201cWe want to explore the problems inherent in bundled votes as well as the overall rationale for shareholder ratification,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/vanderbilt-research\/~3\/VBOs33rBbZs\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] By Grace Renshaw \u201cDelaware\u2019s Retreat: Exploring Developing Fissures and Tectonic Shifts in Delaware Corporate Law,\u201d\u00a0an article co-authored by\u00a0Randall Thomas, the John S. Beasley II Distinguished Professor of Law, with\u00a0James Cox\u00a0of Duke Law School, has been selected as one of the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles published in 2018. Selected articles are reprinted in\u00a0Corporate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95827,17623,33496,814,95828,49091,5705,92251,92252],"class_list":["post-132177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-facultyaward","tag-law","tag-nashville","tag-news","tag-randall-thomas","tag-research","tag-university","tag-vanderbilt","tag-vanderbilt-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}