Transforming Broker Discretion into Senior Executive Accountability

Emma Liggett 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1016 In the wake of recent scandals pervading the financial industry, Congress and federal securities regulators have attempted to rein in the abuse of discretion by those in positions to mismanage funds. Recent legislative and regulatory actions show an effort to incentivize compliant behavior and set standards of...
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Social Corporate Governance

Jeremy McClane & Yaron Nili 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 932 Corporate directors, like most people, are social creatures, and their social networks affect their decisions. But directors’ social networks remain both understudied and undertheorized by scholars and inconsistently addressed by courts. This Article comprehensively examines the importance of director networks to corporate governance. Using...
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Title IX, Esports, and #EToo

Jane K. Stoever 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 857 As colleges and universities increasingly award video gaming scholarships, field competitive esports teams, construct esports arenas in the centers of campuses, and promote student interaction through gaming, schools should anticipate the sexual cyberviolence, harassment, and technology-enabled abuse that commonly occur through gaming. This Article is the...
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Algorithms Acting Badly: A Solution from Corporate Law

Mihailis E. Diamantis 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 801 Sometimes algorithms work against us. They offer many social benefits, but when they discriminate in lending, manipulate stock markets, or violate expectations of privacy, they can injure us on a massive scale. Only one-third of technologists predict that artificial intelligence will be a net positive for...
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Unconstitutional Appointment of Patent Death Squad

June 29, 2021 United States v. Arthrex Inc., 594 U.S. __ (2021) (Roberts, C.J.) Response by Jasper L. Tran Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (Oct. Term 2020) Slip Opinion | SCOTUSblog Unconstitutional Appointment of Patent Death Squad Can legal scholarship change the law?1 Apparently so—a recent exemplar appears in United States v. Arthrex,...
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