Category Archives: Business & Corporate Law

Simon A. Rodell, Plumbing in the Boardroom: Plugging Boardroom Leaks through a Good Faith Duty of Confidentiality

59 Fla. L. Rev. 631 (2007) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: On January 24, 2005, the Wall Street Journal published a front-page article detailing confidential boardroom discussions at Hewlett-Packard’s (H-P) annual board meeting. The article described, in explicit detail, … Continue reading

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Lisa M. Fairfax, Easier Said than Done? A Corporate Law Theory for Actualizing Social Responsibility Rhetoric

59 Fla. L. Rev. 771 (2007) | | | | ABSTRACT :: Post Enron has witnessed renewed concern regarding corporations’ failure to behave responsibly, both in terms of their ethical responsibility and in terms of their responsibilities to advance issues … Continue reading

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Brandon Faulkner, Hacking into Data Breach Notification Laws

59 Fla. L. Rev. 1097 (2007) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: On March 23, 2007, a news agency announced that the police department in Gainesville, Florida, arrested six individuals on charges that they had stolen credit card data from … Continue reading

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James Fanto, Paternalistic Regulation of Public Company Management: Lessons from Bank Regulation

58 Fla. L. Rev. 859 (2006) | | | INTRODUCTION :: By all accounts, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley) represented a significant intrusion by the federal government into the substantive regulation of corporate governance of U.S. public companies, an … Continue reading

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John D. Colombo, In Search of Private Benefit

58 Fla. L. Rev. 1063 (2006) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: For at least the past two decades, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has relied heavily on the private benefit doctrine to police economic transactions between tax- exempt charities … Continue reading

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