“Women, minorities capture most new board seats for first time” https://t.co/r8UYszNRoD ht @narineweldon #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 7, 2017
“An artificial intelligence program has become the world’s best chess player in just a few hours – and it did it with almost no intervention from humans.” https://t.co/yQPdUEpia6 #corpgov ht @EricChaffee
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 7, 2017
1/2: “In the 1960s, a restaurant called Piggie Park said that it should be allowed to segregate black customers, on the basis of the owner’s religious belief that black people were biblically destined for slavery.” https://t.co/V0QBLF71R0 #corpgov #MasterpieceCakeshop
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 8, 2017
“Toys “R” Us paid … its private-equity owners … ‘well in excess of $100 million for advisory services, transaction fees, and lease payments in the five years’ before the bankruptcy filing” https://t.co/zGgdeRuHdm #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 8, 2017
“Justice Alito’s replacement of Justice O’Connor created a slim but durable five-vote majority that is deeply skeptical of campaign finance laws… Justice O’Connor .. has stated that she would have voted the other way in Citizens United.” 103 Cornell L. Rev. Online 101 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 10, 2017
“following … Citizens United … some predicted a deluge of corporate money into the system…. [but] shareholder pressure, concern about customer backlash, skepticism about money’s effectiveness … have kept … corporations on the sidelines”
103 Iowa L. Rev. 185 #corpgov— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 10, 2017
“I have told countless female law students that I would never write them a letter of recommendation for a clerkship with him, and I have told them why. I didn’t want them ever to be at risk of being sexually harassed by him.” https://t.co/QBBJEgafRM #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 10, 2017