Publication Date
1-1-2012
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Politics, corporate governance, SEC, shareholders, auditors
Abstract
The role of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the corporate governance process has shifted dramatically in recent years. The Commission has increasingly supplanted state law in determining substantive standards of corporate governance. The replacement of states with the Commission will have significant consequences.
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Originally published as J. Robert Brown Jr., The Politicization of Corporate Governance: Bureaucratic Discretion, the SEC, and Shareholder Ratification of Auditors, 2 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 501 (2012).
Recommended Citation
J. Robert Brown Jr., The Politicization of Corporate Governance: Bureaucratic Discretion, the SEC, and Shareholder Ratification of Auditors, 2 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 501 (2012).