Corporate Governance

3 units

This course involves an in-depth study of some of the principal issues involved in creating an appropriate governance system for the modern publicly-held corporation. It focuses on questions of corporate structure, the role of fiduciary duties, and transfers of corporate control and examines these questions from legal, economic, and societal perspectives. Students who have not taken the basic Corporations course may enroll, but they will be at a marked disadvantage to those student who have. Taking the basic Corporations course concurrently with this course will reduce the disadvantage.