“Citizens United gave virtually no weight to Congress’s findings …. Instead, the Court summarily concluded ‘that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.'” 2017 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 525 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) February 19, 2018
“Public Choice and the Origins of the Radical Right: A Review of Nancy Maclean’s Democracy in Chains – The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America … a heck of a read, but … fundamentally flawed” https://t.co/Sekvl6oj1m #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) February 19, 2018
“While prosecutors have been experimenting with reform-as-punishment, the dominant academic and political discourses on corporate crime still focus on deterrence and retribution.” 103 Iowa L. Rev. 507 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) February 20, 2018
“justices ruled 9-0 … that the Dodd-Frank Act, a 2010 Wall Street reform law, protects whistleblowers from retaliation only if they have brought their claims of securities law violations directly to the SEC” https://t.co/6foOwnRtl7 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) February 21, 2018
This may be the first time a company’s cost of capital is explicitly tied to its third-party-verified ESG performance. https://t.co/FEIgzjNMeg
— Helen Bird (@Birdsperch) February 20, 2018