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Present	John S. Beasley II, Chair in Law and Business; Director, Law & Business Program; Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University Law School
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	BA, Haverford College
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A Revised Monitoring Model Confronts Today's Movement Toward Managerialism

Texas Law Review (2021)

Randall S. Thomas and James D. Cox

There are many lessons to be drawn from the sweep of history. In law, the compelling story repeatedly told is ...

Petition for Rulemaking on Short and Distort

Faculty Scholarship (2020)

John C. Coffee, Joshua Mitts, James D. Cox, Peter Molk, et al.

Today, some hedge funds attack public companies for the sole purpose of inducing a short-lived panic which they can exploit ...

The Indian Securities Fraud Class Action: Is Class Arbitration the ...

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (2020)

Brian T. Fitzpatrick and Randall S. Thomas

In 2013, India enacted one of the most robust private enforcement regimes for securities fraud violations in the world. Unlike ...

The Law and Practice of Shareholder Inspection Rights: A Comparative ...

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2020)

Randall S. Thomas and Robin Hui Huang

Shareholder inspection rights allow a shareholder to access the relevant documents of the company in which they hold an interest, ...

The Long Rise and Quick Fall of Appraisal Arbitrage

Boston University Law Review (2020)

Randall S. Thomas, Wei Jiang and Tao Li

Appraisal is a legislatively created right for shareholders to seek a judicial determination of the fair value of their stock ...

Vanderbilt Law Review (2019)

Randall S. Thomas, Matthew D. Cain, Jill E. Fisch and Steven D. Solomon

In response to a sharp increase in litigation challenging mergers, the Delaware Chancery Court issued the 2016 Trulia decision, which ...

Revolving Elites: The Unexplored Risk of Capturing the SEC

Georgetown Law Journal (2019)

Randall S. Thomas

Fears have abounded for years that the sweet spot for capture of regulatory agencies is the “revolving door” whereby civil ...

Understanding the (IR)Relevance of Shareholder Votes on M&A Deals

Duke Law Journal (2019)

Randall S. Thomas, James D. Cox and Tomas J. Mondino

Has corporate law and its bundles of fiduciary obligations become irrelevant? Over the last thirty years, the American public corporation ...

Delaware's Retreat

Delaware Journal of Corporation Law (2018)

Randall Thomas and James D. Cox

The 1980’s is appropriately considered the Golden Age of Delaware corporate law. Within that era, the Delaware courts won international ...

Democracy and Dysfunction: Rural Electric Cooperatives and the Surprising Persistence ...

Alabama Law Review (2018)

Randall S. Thomas, Debra C. Jeter and Harwell Wells

Since the 1930s, corporate law scholarship has focused narrowly on the public corporation and the problem of the separation of ...

The Shifting Tides of Merger Litigation

Vanderbilt Law Review (2018)

Randall Thomas, Matthew D. Cain, Jill Fisch and Steven D. Solomon

In 2015, Delaware made several important changes to its laws concerning merger litigation. These changes, which were made in response ...

Shareholder Voting in Proxy Contests for Corporate Control, Uncontested Director ...

Oklahoma Law Review (2017)

Randall Thomas and Patrick C. Tricker

This paper surveys the empirical literature on shareholder voting, specifically on votes related to contested and uncontested director elections and ...

What Do We Know About Law Firm Quality in M&A ...

Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation (2017)

Steven Davidoff Solomon and Randall Thomas

Appraisal: Shareholder Remedy or Litigation Arbitrage?

Journal of Law and Economics (2016)

Wei Jiang, Tao Li, Danqing Mei and Randall Thomas

We present the first large-sample empirical study of the recent trends in the appraisal remedy—the right of shareholders of companies ...

Are College Presidents Like Football Coaches? Evidence from Their Employment ...

Arizona Law Review (2016)

Randall Thomas and Lawrence R. Van Horn

College presidents and football coaches are frequently criticized for their high compensation. In this paper, we argue that these criticisms ...

College Football Coaches’ Pay and Contracts: Are They Overpaid and ...

91 Indiana Law Journal 189 (2016) (2016)

Randall Thomas and Lawrence Van Horn

College football coaches’ employment contracts and compensation garner public attention and scrutiny in much the same way as those of ...

Corporate Darwinism: Disciplining Managers in a World With Weak Shareholder ...

North Carolina Law Review (2016)

Randall S. Thomas and James D. Cox

Because representative shareholder litigation has been constrained by numerous legal developments, the corporate governance system has developed new mechanisms as ...

James D. Cox: The Shareholders Best Advocate

Duke Law Journal (2016)

Randall Thomas and Well Harwell

This Article explores the historical development of the academic analysis of corporate law over the past forty years through the ...

Quieting the Shareholders' Voice

Southern California Law Review (2016)

Randall Thomas, James D. Cox and Fabrizio Ferri

An Empirical Analysis of Noncompetition Clauses and Other Restrictive Postemployment ...

Vanderbilt Law Review (2015)

Employment contracts for most employees are not publicly available, leaving researchers to speculate about whether they contain postemployment restrictions on ...

Say on Pay Around the World

Washington University Law Review (2015)

Randall Thomas and Christoph van der Elst

Shareholders have long complained that top executives are overpaid by corporate directors irrespective of their performance. Largely powerless to stop ...

Should New Zealand Adopt Say on Pay?

New Zealand Business Law Quarterly (2013)

Randall Thomas and Susan Watson

The First Year of "Say on Pay" Under Dodd-Frank: An ...

George Washington Law Review (2013)

Randall Thomas, James F. Cotter and Alan R. Palmiter

Using voting data from the first year of say-on-pay votes under Dodd- Frank, we look at the patterns of shareholder ...

What Should We Do About Multijurisdictional Litigation in M&A Deals?

Vanderbilt Law Review (2013)

Many M&A; transactions attract shareholder litigation challenging the fairness of the economic terms of the deal for the target shareholders. ...

Selectica Resets the Trigger on the Poison Pill: Where Should ...

87 Indiana Law Journal 1087 (2012) (2012)

Paul H Edelman and Randall S Thomas

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