Donald C Langevoort
Biographic Data
| ID | 5989693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald C Langevoort |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald C |
| FAMILY NAME | Langevoort |
| SIGNATURE | LANGEVOORT D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4897-1917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction: Commentaries on Ensuring Corporate Misconduct by Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith
This essay reviews some of the more striking findings in Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith's Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation (2010), particularly concerning the tension between two competing narratives of shareholder litigation—one stressing the important deterrent effect of such litigation, the other viewing such litigation as abusive plaintiff opportunism. The essay then introduces commentar…
Opening the Black Box of »Corporate Culture« in Law and Economics
Conventional economic analysis of organizational behavior in the face of legal incentives has largely ignored the concept of »corporate culture.« Building on recent work in economics as well as contributions from sociology and social psychology, this paper suggests that the emergence of belief systems that determine what is paid attention to and what is ignored has an important effect on compliance with law under conditions of ambiguity and will …
Half-Truths: Protecting Mistaken Inferences by Investors and Others
The concept of the -- the idea that the truth can be misleading if some important qualifier has been concealed -- has not been given much theoretical attention by either courts or commentators. Rather, the potentially misleading character of something that is by itself technically true is simply treated as a fact question. This paper is an effort to explain the half-truth doctrine, and show why courts apparently apply it more restrictively in sec…
What Was Kaye Scholer Thinking
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What Was Kaye Scholer Thinking: [Commentary]
I applaud Bill Simon's insistence that we think more carefully about what Kaye Scholer supposedly did. He is also right to turn the discussion away from whistle-blowing and toward whether lawyers who know their client is engaged a serious course of fraudulent conduct related to the representation commits a breach of law, ethics, or both if they do not withdraw, after efforts to dissuade the client have failed. I concur with Simon that they have a…
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What Was Kaye Scholer Thinking
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What Was Kaye Scholer Thinking: [Commentary]
I applaud Bill Simon's insistence that we think more carefully about what Kaye Scholer supposedly did. He is also right to turn the discussion away from whistle-blowing and toward whether lawyers who know their client is engaged a serious course of fraudulent conduct related to the representation commits a breach of law, ethics, or both if they do not withdraw, after efforts to dissuade the client have failed. I concur with Simon that they have a…
Half-Truths: Protecting Mistaken Inferences by Investors and Others
The concept of the -- the idea that the truth can be misleading if some important qualifier has been concealed -- has not been given much theoretical attention by either courts or commentators. Rather, the potentially misleading character of something that is by itself technically true is simply treated as a fact question. This paper is an effort to explain the half-truth doctrine, and show why courts apparently apply it more restrictively in sec…
Opening the Black Box of »Corporate Culture« in Law and Economics
Conventional economic analysis of organizational behavior in the face of legal incentives has largely ignored the concept of »corporate culture.« Building on recent work in economics as well as contributions from sociology and social psychology, this paper suggests that the emergence of belief systems that determine what is paid attention to and what is ignored has an important effect on compliance with law under conditions of ambiguity and will …
Introduction: Commentaries on Ensuring Corporate Misconduct by Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith
This essay reviews some of the more striking findings in Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith's Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation (2010), particularly concerning the tension between two competing narratives of shareholder litigation—one stressing the important deterrent effect of such litigation, the other viewing such litigation as abusive plaintiff opportunism. The essay then introduces commentar…
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