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Corporate Law

Affordable Housing Cooperatives as Shared Equity Homeownership: Part II – Organizational Law, Resource Governance and a Corrective-Distributive Approach

Part II of this Article deepens the expanded view of organizational law developed in Part I with a focus on its distributive features. Using the analytical framework of entity governance, resource governance, and use and purpose governance, Part II demonstrates how these dimensions of organizational law interact to constrain the

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HB 239 - Business Courts

Georgia voters passed a constitutional amendment in November 2018, endorsing the establishment of a state-wide business court. The Act serves as the enabling legislation for the state-wide business court’s creation and implementation. Among other provisions, the Act provides the court’s location alternatives, jurisdictional limitations, filing fee,

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“At Home” In Georgia: The Hidden Danger of Registering to do Business in Georgia

Georgia law prohibits any foreign corporation—a corporation with an originating registration initiated in a state other than Georgia—from transacting business in the state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the Georgia Secretary of State. Attorneys advise foreign corporations to register as a matter of course, and

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Cybersecurity Oversight Liability

A changing cybersecurity environment now poses a significant corporate-governance challenge. Although some cybersecurity data breaches may be inevitable, courts now increasingly consider when a corporation’s officers and directors may be held liable on theories that they acted in bad faith and failed to adequately oversee the corporation’s

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