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Questions

1. In what ways, and why, did US corporate management organizations seek to tighten rules around shareholder proposals? What is the gist of the ICCR's objection?

2. What are proxy advisory firms, and what role to they play in the era of "asset management capitalism"? In what ways, and why, did US corporate management organizations seek to limit the influence of these firms? What is the gist of Dayen's objection?

3. What does Strauss find paradoxical about event-driven/OV securities fraud litigation? What are the three potential social benefits of this kind of litigation? For each of these kinds of benefits, to what extent does Strauss think that they are achieved, and why?

4. Compare and contrast the fiduciary and other duties of directors toward shareholders and other stakeholders in the new Indian Companies Act, the UK Companies Act, and under standard American corporate law. How, if at all, do you expect corporate behaviour to differ under these different legal regimes, and why?

5. What is the fiduciary duty of directors? What is the "best interests of the corporation"? Compare and contrast of agency theory and team production theory.

6. What is the oppression remedy for? How does an oppression action differ from a derivative action? What are the two "prongs" ("elements" or analytic steps) in an action for oppression?