William J. Carney (Emory): The Background of Modern American Business Law. Mark J. Roe (Harvard) and Massimiliano Vatiero (USI): Corporate Governance and Its Political Economy. Daniel J.H. Greenwood (Hofstra): Person, State or Not: The Place of Business Corporations in Our Constitutional Order. Susan Watson (Auckland): How the Company Became an Entity: A New Understanding of Corporate Law. In the 21st century, only corporations get to own property and we’re their tenants. Julian Arato (Columbia): Corporations as Lawmakers. Timothy B. Lee on how big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system. Robert Denicola (Nebraska): The New Law of Ideas. David G. Yosifon (Santa Clara): Is Corporate Patriotism a Virtue? Ying Li Compton and Sok-Hyon Kang (GWU), and Zinan Zhu (NUS): Red vs. Blue: Does Female Board Membership Depend on Whether the Company is Located in Conservative or Liberal States? Robert Charles Clark (Harvard): Harmony or Dissonance? The Good Governance Ideas of Academics and Worldly Players. A corporation of the New Gilded Age: Building off the sociopathy of its founder, Steve Jobs, Apple is banning felons from working on constructing its buildings. Caterpillar’s CEO just got a big raise, and it explains what’s wrong with American capitalism. Livia Gershon on putting CEO pay in an international context. Has American business lost its mojo? Thomas Edsall wonders.
