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Prof. Fisch challenges use of corporate shareholder agreements as private ordering mechanisms
With her pathbreaking paper, Fisch “offers the first broad-based analysis of shareholder agreements, detailing the scope of issues to which they are addressed and identifying the challenges that they pose for corporate governance.”
In windfall for Xinjiang, huge US mutual funds invest millions in its companies
Prof. Fisch comments on mutual funds’ decisions to include profitable Xinjiang-based companies in indices despite human rights violations
Professor Jill Fisch discusses SCOTUS decision impacting SEC’s power to recoup illegal profits
Prof. Jill Fisch discusses the recent SCOTUS decision that limits the power of the Securities Exchange Commission to recoup illegal profits from wrongdoers.
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Prof. Pollman’s scholarship secures spot on Corporate Practice Commentator’s Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2020 for second consecutive year
Prof. Pollman’s “Private Company Lies” was selected by her peers as among the best corporate and securities articles published in legal journals in 2020.
Three faculty members to retire from the Law School in 2020
Three distinguished faculty members will retire from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year: Professors William Wilson Bratton, Howard F. Chang, and Michael L. Wachter.
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Nadia M. Jannetta, Esq.
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