The (Misunderstood) Genius of American Corporate Law

Authors

Robert B. Ahdieh, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2009

Journal Title

The George Washington Law Review

ISSN

0016-8076

Abstract

In this Reply, I respond to comments by Bill Bratton, Larry Cunningham, and Todd Henderson on my recent paper - Trapped in a Metaphor: The Limited Implications of Federalism for Corporate Governance. I begin by reiterating my basic thesis - that state competition should be understood to have little consequence for corporate governance, if (as charter competition's advocates assume) capital-market-driven managerial competition is also at work. I then consider some of the thoughtful critiques of this claim, before suggesting ways in which the comments highlight just the kind of comparative institutional analysis my paper counsels. Rather than a stark choice between a race in one direction or another, institutional design in corporate law requires a more careful analysis of how precisely state competition benefits the modern public corporation, as well as of its resulting limitations.

First Page

730

Last Page

739

Num Pages

10

Volume Number

77

Issue Number

3

Publisher

George Washington University

Recommended Citation

Robert B. Ahdieh, The (Misunderstood) Genius of American Corporate Law, 77 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 730 (2009).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1220

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