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1 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 (Spring 2004)
Margaret M. Blair, Reforming Corporate Governance: What History Can Teach Us
Stephen J. Choi, A Framework for the Regulation of Securities Market Intermediaries
A.C. Pritchard, Tender Offers by Controlling Shareholders: The Specter of Coercion and Fair Price
Merritt B. Fox, Measuring Share Price Accuracy
William A. Klein & Mitu Gulati, Economic Organization in the Construction Industry: A Case Study of Collaborative Production Under High Uncertainty
Jeffrey R. Boles, Book Review: Corporate Reform: The Locus of Control – Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and other Major Corporations
Kenneth K. Hsu, Book Review: A Familiar Manifesto: Wall Street on Trial: A Corrupted State
1 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 2. (Fall 2004)
Larry E. Ribstein, Why Corporations?
Brian R. Cheffins & Randall S. Thomas, The Globalization (Americanization?) of Executive Pay
Lucian Arye Bebchuk & Jesse M. Fried, Stealth Compensation via Retirement Benefits
Lawrence A. Cunningham, A New Product for the State Corporation Market: Audit Committee Certifications
Allen Ferrell, Measuring the Effects of Mandated Disclosure
2 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 (Symposium 2005)
Paul S. Edwards & Mitu Gulati, Foreword: The Klein Criteria Project
William Klein, Criteria for Good Laws of Business Association
J. Mark Ramseyer, Economizing Legal D-B8
Edmun W. Kitch, The Simplification of the Criteria for Good Corporate Law or Why Corporate Law is Not as Important Anymore
Tomotaka Fujita, Criteria for Good Laws of Business Association: An Outsider’s View
Paul S. Edwards, Organizing the Socio-Legal Study of Business Associations
William W. Bratton, Welfare, Dialectic, and Mediation in Corporate Law
Stephen M. Bainbridge, Competing Concepts of the Corporation (A.K.A. Criteria? Just say No)
Robert B. Thompson, Corporate Law Criteria: Law’s Relation to Private Ordering
David A. Skeel, Jr., Corporate Shaming Revisited, An Essay for Bill Klein
Stewart Macaulay, Klein and the Contradictions of Corporations Law
Randall S. Thomas, What is Corporate Law’s Place in Promoting Societal Welfare? : An Essay IN Honor of Professor William Klein
Ronald J. Gilson, Separation and the Function of Corporation Law
Lawrence E. Mitchell, Vulnerability and Efficiency (Of What?)
Melvin Aron Eisenberg, The Architecture of American Corporate Law; Facilitation and Regulation
2 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 2 (Spring 2005)
Beverley Earle & Gerald A. Madek, The New World of Risk for Corporate Attorneys and Their Boards Post-Sarbanes-Oxley: An Assessment of Impact and a Prescription for Action
Georgette Chapman Poindexter, Dequity: The Blurring of Debt and Equity in Securitized Real Estate Financing
Sharon Hannes, Private Benefits of Control, Antitakeover Defenses, and the Perils of Federal Intervention
Daniele Marchesani, The Concept of Autonomy and the Independent Director of Public Corporations
Irit Haviv-Segal, Bankruptcy Law and Inefficient Entitlements
3 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 (Fall 2005)
Marc I. Steinberg & Greg Claassen, Attorney Liability Under the State Securities Laws: Landscapes and Minefields
Lynn A. Stout, Share Price as a Poor Criterion for Good Corporate Law
Jonathon C. Lipson, Price, Path & Pride: Third-Party Closing Opinion Practice Among U.S. Lawyers (A Preliminary Investigation)
Andrea M. Matwyshyn, Material Vulnerabilities: Data Privacy, Corporate Information Security, and Securities Regulation
Brett H. McDonnell, Shareholders Bylaws, Shareholder Nominations, and Poison Pills
Adam J. Levitin, The Antitrust Superbowl: America’s Payment Systems, No-Surcharge Rules, and the Hidden Costs of Credit
3 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 2 (Fall 2006)
Ana Morales Olazabal, Loss Causation in Fraud-on-the-Market Causes post-Dura Pharmaceuticals
Yoram Keinan, Playing the Audit Lottery: The Role of Penalties in the U.S. Tax Law in the Aftermath of Long Term Capital Holdings v. United States
Thanos Panagopoulos, Thinking Inside the Box: Analyzing Judicial Scrutiny of Deal Protection Devices in Delaware
Aden R. Pavkov, Ghouls and Godsends? A Critique of “Reverse Merger” Policy
4 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 (Spring 2007)
Richard A. Booth, The End of the Securities Fraud Class Action as We Know It
D. Daniel Sokol, Monopolists Without Borders: The Institutional Challenge of International Antitrust in a Global Gilded Age
James M. Falvey & Andrew N. Kleit, Commodity Exchanges and Antitrust
Daniel C. Davis, Omnicare v. NCS Healthcare: A Critical Appraisal
4 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 2 (Fall 2007)
Cally Jordan & Pamela Hughes, Which Way for Market Institutions: The Fundamental Question of Self-Regulation
Dr. Hui Huang, The Statutory Derivative Action in China: Critical Analysis and Recommendations for Reform
Seth Spaulding Gomm, In Re. Qwest Communications International, Inc.: The Tenth Circuit Hangs up the Phone on Qwest’s Petition for Selective Waiver, but the Line is Not Dead
5 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 (Spring 2008)
Jo Carrillo, Dangerous Loans: Consumer Challenges to Adjustable Rate mortgages
Elise N. Rindfleisch, Shareholder Proposals: A Catalyst for Climate Change-Related Disclosure, Analysis, and Action?
Yaad Rotem, Pursuing Preservation of Pre-Bankruptcy Entitlements: Corporate Bankruptcy Law’s Self-Executing Mechanisms
5 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 2 (Fall 2008)
Michael E. Murphy, The Nominating Process for Corporate Boards of Directors: A Decision-Making Analysis
Dan W. Puchniak, The Efficiency of Friendliness: Japanese Corporate Governance Succeeds Again Without Hostile Takeovers
Harwell Wells, The Rise of the Close Corporation and the Making of Corporation Law
Mo Zhang, From Public to Private: The Newly Enacted Chinese Property Law and the Protection of Property Rights in China
6 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 & 2 (Double Issue 2008-2009)
Vol. 1
Adam B. Badawai, Interpretive Preferences and the Limits of the New Formalism
Darren Rosenblum, Feminizing Capital: A Corporate Imperative
Michael Simkovic, The Effect of Mandatory Disclosure on Open-Market Stock Repurchases
Vol. 2
Charles W. Murdock, Corporate Corruption and the Complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court – The Tortuous Path from Central Bank to Stoneridge Investment Partners
David Rosenberg, Supplying the Adverb: The Future of Corporate Risk-Taking and the Business Judgment Rule
Houman B. Shadab, The Law and Economics of Hedge Funds: Financial Innovation and Investor Protection
Daniel F. Spulber, Discovering the Role of the Firm: The Separation Criterion and Corporate Law
7 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 (Spring 2009)
John H. Matheson, Why Courts Pierce: An Empirical Study of Piercing the Corporate Veil
Vijay Sekhon, Valuation of Reverse Termination Options in Mergers and Acquisitions
Nan S. Ellis, Lisa M. Fairchild, and Harold D. Fletcher, The NYSE Response to Specialist Misconduct: An Example of the Failure of Self-Regulation
Stephen Rushin, Warning Labels and FCC Regulations: The New Legal and Business Frontier for Cell Phone Manufacturers
Michael Serota, (Mis)Interpreting SLUSA: Closing the Jurisdictional Loophole in Federal Securities Class Actions
8 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 1 (Fall 2010)
Patrick J. Glen, Law as Asymmetric Information: Theory, Application, and Results in the Context of Foreign Direct Investment in Real Estate.
Amnon Lehavi & Benito Arrunada, Prime Property Institutions for a Subprime Era: Toward Innovative Models of Homeownership.
Robert F. Weber, Combating the Teleological Drift of Life Insurance Solvency Regulation: The Case for a Meta-Risk Management Approach to Principles-Based Reserving.
Caitlin Hall, The Death of a Defense: How Derivatives Spell the End of the Good Faith Defense to Fraudulent Transfer Actions in Business Bankruptcies.
