Corporations vs. The Court : Private Power, Public Interests / David Sciulli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sciulli, David, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This original book looks methodically at corporate law, corporate governance, and judicial practice from the perspective of social theory. Sciulli explores whether there are identifiable limits—legal or normative—to corporate power in any democratic society; when the corporate judiciary in the U.S. maintains those limits, despite the pressures of intensifying global economic competition; and when the judiciary drifts, as an institution, away from bearing this responsibility. Assessing both the promise and the limits of the new, institutional approach to the sociology of organizations, Sciulli considers the influence of England's Chancery Courts in the U.S., especially with regard to private power in civil society. His study, moving from the eighteenth century to the present, provides a comprehensive analysis of corporate power and judicial restraints.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 An Institutional Approach to Corporations and Courts

1 The Promise and Limits of Institutionalism

2 Overcoming Conceptual Limitations

3 A Conceptual Framework for the Empirical Study of Institutional Change

Part 2 U.S. Corporate Law: From Vigilance to Complacency

4 The Quest for Doctrinal Coherence: Initial Approaches to the Corporation

5 The Chancery of Old and the Problem of Social Order

6 The End of Doctrinal Coherence

7 Doctrinal Fissures: Corporate Law and Judicial Practice Today

Part 3 Conclusion

8 Reconsidering Institutionalism

Bibliography

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)

ISBN:

1-68585-180-0

OCLC:

1378174464