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Article
Private Ordering with Shareholder Bylaws
Fordham Law Review
Publication Date
3-31-2011
Keywords
- shareholder empowerment,
- shareholder bylaws,
- corporate governance,
- private ordering,
- Delaware corporations,
- Rule 14a-8
Disciplines
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In this Article, we propose legal reforms to empower shareholders in public corporations. Most shareholders participate in corporate governance in three ways: they vote, they sell, and they sue. We would expand the menu for shareholders in public corporations by enabling them to contract using shareholder bylaws. We contend that private ordering will improve shareholder monitoring of managers and create laboratories of corporate governance that benefit the entire corporate governance system.
General Notes
Reprinted in 54 Corporate Practice Commentator 147 (2012).
Citation Information
D. Gordon Smith, Matthew Wright & Marcus Kai Hintze, Private Ordering with Shareholder Bylaws, 80 Fᴏʀᴅʜᴀᴍ L. Rᴇᴠ. 125 (2011).