TY - BOOK AU - Davidoff Solomon,Steven AU - Thomas,Randall S. ED - Corporate Contract in Changing Times: Is the Law Keeping Up (Conference) TI - The corporate contract in changing times: is the law keeping up? T2 - Chicago scholarship online SN - 9780226599540 AV - KF1414 U1 - 346.73066 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Corporation law KW - United States KW - Congresses KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - thema N1 - Also issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Over the past few decades, significant changes have occurred across capital markets. Shareholder activists have become more prominent, institutional investors have begun to wield more power, and intermediaries like investment advisory firms have greatly increased their influence. These changes to the economic environment in which corporations operate have outpaced changes in basic corporate law and left corporations uncertain of how to respond to the new dynamics and adhere to their fiduciary duties to stockholders. Steven Davidoff Solomon and Randall Stuart Thomas bring together leading corporate law scholars, judges, and lawyers from top corporate law firms to explore what needs to change and what has prevented reform thus far UR - http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226599540.001.0001/upso-9780226599403 ER -