On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Doug Henwood wrote: > Comrades - I'm going to be interviewing Nell Minow of Lens Inc., one of the > leading "relationship investors" and "shareholder activists" around. I've > included the text from their web home page below. > > Anything you'd like me to ask her about? > > Doug > I recently reread Monks & Minow's, Power and Accountability. Looking at it from the viewpoint of a labor lawyer, I'd be curious how they would view rewriting corporation law to bring in other corporate stakeholders expressly as ones to whom the officers and directors owe a fiduciary obligation, somewhat on the same basis as the current beneficial owners. In addition to the workers (with their sweat equity) this could include communities (esp. ones which have invested heavily in providing support and services to the corporations). Prof. Lynne Dallas (U of San Diego law school) has explored this issue in her current articles, btw. As more of a longshot, you could ask them what they think of bolstering laws which provide counterbalances to corporate power, e.g., labor unions, which many of us in labor law would see as institutions whose creation and legal support is necessitated by the legal support offered to the corporate form. As even more of a longshot question, ask them what they think of suggestions to pull the plug on community give-aways offered to induce corporations to move to or not to move from communities. ellen Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-525-1449 Fax: 619-696-9999
[PEN-L:958] Re: relationship activism
Ellen Dannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:50:51 -0700