Richard Squire

Fordham University School of Law

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Law and the Rise of the Firm

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Law and the Rise of the Firm

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jan 2006
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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Corporations, Partnerships, Companies, History of the Firm, Entity Shielding, Limited Liability, Legal Entities, Bankruptcy

Law and the Rise of the Firm

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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Law and the Rise of the Firm

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

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Legal protection, Limited liability companies (LLC), Asset management, Firm ownership, Legal systems

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Principal Costs: A New Theory for Corporate Law and Governance

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 767, 2017, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2571739, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-462
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Zohar Goshen and Richard Squire
Columbia Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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principal costs, agency costs, governance structure, theory of the firm, dual class, concentrated ownership, dispersed ownership,

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How Does Legal Enforceability Affect Consumer Lending? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

The Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 May 2016 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2017
Colleen Honigsberg, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Richard Squire
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and Fordham University School of Law
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usury law, strategic default, consumer lending, marketplace lending, Madden v. Midland

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The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective

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The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Feb 2005
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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Corporations, Partnerships, Organizations, History, Limited Liability Companies, Legal Entitites, Asset Partitioning

The New Business Entities in Evolutionary Perspective

European Business Organization Law Review, Vol. 8, 2007
Posted: 16 May 2007
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

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corporations; partnerships; organizations; history; limited liability companies; legal entities; asset partitioning

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Shareholder Opportunism in a World of Risky Debt

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 123, 2010
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2010
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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derivatives, credit default swap, correlation, bankruptcy, guaranty, fraudulent conveyance

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External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 535
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2018
Henry Hansmann and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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asset partitioning, corporations, subsidiaries, corporate groups, external partitioning, internal partitioning, creditor remedies, veil piercing, enterprise liability

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Incomplete Organizations: Legal Entities and Asset Partitioning in Roman Commerce

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 271/2014, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 511
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2014
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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asset partitioning, entity shielding, limited liability, legal history, Ancient Rome, business organizations, corporations

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Strategic Liability in the Corporate Group

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 78, 2011, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1742096
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 17 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2011
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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Bankruptcy, correlation-seeking, guarantee, corporate group, fraudulent transfer

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Clearinghouses as Liquidity Partitioning

99 Cornell Law Review 857 (2014)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 05 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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clearinghouse, bankruptcy, systemic risk, liquidity, orderly liquidation authority, asset partitioning, netting, setoff, Dodd-Frank

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The Case for Symmetry in Creditors' Rights

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 118, p. 806, 2009
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 18 May 2009
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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bankruptcy, asset partitioning, secured transactions, corporations, partnership

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How Collective Settlements Camouflage the Costs of Shareholder Lawsuits

62 Duke Law Journal 1 (2012)
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2012
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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Antitrust and the Supremacy Clause

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 1, p. 77, 2006
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Jun 2006
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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antitrust, Sherman Act, preemption, Supremacy Clause, Parker, state action immunity

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Insolvency vs. Illiquidity in the 2008 Crisis and the Congressional Imagination

Crisi Finanziaria e Riposte Normative: Verso Un Nuovo Diritto Dell'Economica? (2014, Milano, Quaderni di Giurisprudenza Commerciale, Guiffre), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2392914
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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systemic risk, Dodd-Frank, financial crisis, banking regulation, liquidity

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Intraportfolio Litigation

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 105, p. 1679, 2011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2012
Amanda M. Rose and Richard Squire
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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vicarious liability, corporate liability, enterprise liability, securities fraud, securities litigation, corporate governance, respondeat superior, indemnification, class action, deterrence, diversification, agency costs

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Distress-Triggered Liabilities and the Agency Costs of Debt

Draft chapter accepted for publication by Edward Elgar Publishing in Research Handbook on Corporate Bankruptcy Law, edited by Barry Adler, 2020, Forthcoming, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3015977
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 07 May 2020
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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Bankruptcy, corporations, make-whole premiums, agency costs of debt, default penalties

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Why the Corporation Locks in Financial Capital but the Partnership Does Not

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 6, 2021
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Jan 2022
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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Corporation, partnership, corporate law, partnership law, LLC, limited partnership, capital lock-in, asset partitioning

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A Market for End-of-The-World Insurance? Credit Default Swaps on US Government Debt

Is U.S. Government Debt Different? (Franklin Allen et al., eds.) (FIC Press 2012), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2291529
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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credit default swaps, sovereign debt, US Treasury debt, derivatives, bankruptcy, liquidation

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The Artificial Collective-Action Problem in Lawsuits Against Insured Defendants

Research Handbook in the Law & Economics of Insurance (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015) ( Daniel Schwarcz & Peter Siegelman, eds.)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2015
Richard Squire
Fordham University School of Law
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liability insurance, duty to settle, litigation, tort law, duty to contribute

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A Game-Theoretic Explanation of the Administrative Lattice in Institutions of Higher Learning

Posted: 11 Jan 2001
Andreas Ortmann and Richard Squire
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Fordham University School of Law

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Principal-agent games; Organizational behavior of nonprofits in higher education; Administrative lattice; Academic ratchet.