4.3 – Hercules Management
As I was re-reading and reviewing my notes, one theme that kept popping up is how troublesome this “fiction” of corporate personhood can be. It feels a bit like the chicken and the egg. Is “corporate personhood” a natural product of the legal analysis, flowing out of concepts like shareholder limited liability and the fact […]
A Utilitarian Approach to Company Law
As I was studying for my jurisprudence class, I came across a philosopher whose ideas appear to be directly transferable to an issue in company law: that of trying to discern what it means to be “in the best interests of the corporation”. Jeremy Bentham measured right and wrong as “the greatest happiness of the […]
Word-cloud of course materials
Was curious so fed the course materials into a word-cloud generator to see what would happen. The results in the shape of a corporate briefcase are below…. jon
Conflict of Interest & Duty – Discussion Activity 7.3
As a director, James Beatty owed a duty to North-West Transport Co., however, while wearing his shareholder “hat” he did not owe that same duty. I wouldn’t say the shareholder vote that allowed him to personally enter into the contract of sale relieved him of that duty, I think it just gave him another “hat” […]
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