In an interview with Securities Docket, Michigan lawprof Adam Pritchard sketches out more details about his idea, which has been causing buzz in recent weeks, for corporations to contract around the liberal Basic v. Levinson doctrine on shareholder lawsuits (via Beck & Herrmann; text of proposal, Prof. Pritchard's paper on the subject in Cato Supreme Court Review).
End run around fraud-on-the-market actions, cont'd
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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