Minorities, shareholder and otherwise.

Yale Law Journal | October 1, 2003| | Copyright

INTRODUCTION

Corporate law understands what constitutional law does not. Minority status matters to law. Where today's constitutional jurisprudence of equal protection aspires to colorblindness, corporate law places minority concerns at the heart of its endeavor. The minorities of corporate law are minority shareholders--investors holding small, noncontrolling interests in the corporation. Law's solicitude, it seems, is limited to minority shareholders, not minority races. Where constitutional law sees only one race--"American" (1)--corporate law recognizes minority ...

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