The Failure of Corporate Law
Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Introduction
Part One - Fundamental Flaws
1. September 11 and Corporate Law
2. Corporate Law as Public Law
3. Workers, Shareholders, and the Purpose of Corporations
4. Corporations and the Duty to Obey the Law
5. Democracy and the Dominance of Delaware
Part Two - Progressive Possibilities
6. New Principles, New Policies
7. Corporate Governance as a Public Policy Tool
8. Workers and Corporate Fraud
9. Irrationality and the Business Judgment Rule
Postscript: Getting Real about New Possibilities
Notes
Index
“Greenfield commences with a reconsideration of the basic and generally accepted purposes and norms of law. The result is as startling as it is enlightening. . . . A seminal piece of writing that evidences dominance of a vast range of ideas, research, and critical thinking, and puts it into a coherent, well argued, accessible whole in a mere 243 pages. It merits a place alongside Berle and Means, Easterbrook and Fischel, and indeed, one can but hope that it becomes the touchstone for further corporate law reform globally.”
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