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It’s been four weeks since the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and the NBA cancelled games. As of this writing, the NY Post reports: Total cases globally = 1,426,096; Deaths = 81,865.
In the past, we "more or less accepted the basic liberal premise of separating the public from the private," but we've "now so pervasively blended public and private identities and powers that the traditional liberal divide has all but collapsed." 120 Colum. L. Rev. 465 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) April 5, 2020
"right-of-center populists find themselves increasingly at odds w/ an emergent class of social justice warrior CEOs, whose views on a variety of critical issues are increasingly closer to those of blue state elites than those of red state populists" 98 Neb. L. Rev. 543 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) April 5, 2020
"Stop Blaming Milton Friedman!" The "shareholder-first mentality … would only take hold in the mid-1980s…. due to an unprecedented wave of hostile takeovers rather than anything Friedman said." https://t.co/8IaD4ialut #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) April 6, 2020
"With Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya, 2020 SCC 5 (Nevsun), the Supreme Court of Canada has changed the way that senior business decision makers must think about the human rights impacts of their decisions on people abroad." https://t.co/2O70tjmTSI #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) April 2, 2020
2/2: "the [Business Roundtable] shift says nothing about actually being accountable, truly transparent, or giving stakeholders any real power, and so adheres to the long-standing managerialist goal of autonomy over all else" Langevoort, 43 Seattle U. L. Rev. 377 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) April 7, 2020