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标题：It's Time for a Good Hard Look in the Mirror: The Corporate Law Example
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作者：John A. Barrett, Jr.
期刊名称：Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：4
页码：943
出版社：Fordham Law School
摘要：This Article asserts that the move from the industrial age to the information age represents a fundamental change to our society on such a widespread basis that the legal order must reexamine the premises about how our society functions, assessing whether foundational elements of U.S. Common Law remain valid. This Article first confronts briefly the continuing acceptance of certain foundational premises in contract and intellectual property law, illustrating that such premises are no longer supported by the realities of modern society. With fundamental change challenging multiple areas of law in the information age, this problem is worthy of widespread inquiry by legal scholars in various fields. This Article then turns to a detailed analysis of the premises supporting shareholder primacy in corporate law, demonstrating that the historic justifications for allocations of ownership, control and duties no longer support these premises. Based on the relative needs of today’s businesses vis-à-vis the contributions of various other constituencies, this Article asserts that employees should also have certain duties owed to them. This Article concludes with a novel model for creating such a stake in the form of a springing right to profit sharing.
关键词：Corporate; Law; Industry; Information; Common Law; Contract; Intellectual Property