Henry Hansmann
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The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption
The nineteenth century saw the standardization and rapid spread of the modern business corporation around the world. Yet those early corporations differed from their contemporary counterparts in important ways. Most obviously, they commonly deviated from the one-share-one…
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The Essential Role of Organizational Law
110 Yale L.J. 387 (2000)
In every developed market economy, the law provides for a set of standard-form legal entities. In the United States, these entities include, among others, the business corporation, the cooperative corporation, the nonprofit corporation, the municipal corporation, the limited …