Lawrence A. Hamermesh
Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law
Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware

On July 22, while I was vacationing and enjoying relatively cool temperatures in northern Maine, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, suffering in Washington’s heat and humidity, issued an opinion invalidating Rule 14a-11, which the Securities and Exchange Commission had adopted about a year earlier.

Now that I’m back in the office and have had a chance to reflect on the Court of Appeals’ opinion, I can only begin to describe how mixed my feelings are on this whole subject.  On one hand, I was involved with the preparation of the rule while employed with the Commission Continue reading Random Thoughts on Proxy Access and Judicial Review →