Stefan J. Padfield

Publications

• Crony Stakeholder Capitalism
  111 KY. L.J. (2025) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2025
• An Introduction to Anti-ESG Legislation
  24 TRANSACTIONS (2023) · Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law · 2023
• An Introduction to Viewpoint Diversity Shareholder Proposals
  22 TRANSACTIONS (2021) · Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law · 2021
• TOTALITARIAN NUDGES, ILLUSORY EXTERNALITIES, AND UTOPIAN BENEFITS: REFLECTIONS ON THE 34TH ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR LAW PROFESSORS
  21 TRANSACTIONS 269 (2020) · Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law · 2020
• Corporate Governance and the Omnipresent Specter of Political Bias
  104 MARQ. L. REV. 47 (2020) · Marquette Law Review · 2020

• DOES CORPORATE PERSONHOOD MATTER? A REVIEW OF, AND RESPONSE TO, ADAM WINKLER’S WE THE CORPORATIONS
  20 TRANSACTIONS 1009 (2019) · Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law · 2019
• The Role of Corporate Personality Theory in Opting Out of Shareholder Wealth Maximization
  19 TRANSACTIONS (2018) · Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law · 2018
• A New Social Contract: Corporate Personality Theory and the Death of the Firm
  101 MINN. L. REV. HEADNOTES 363 (2017) · Minnesota Law Review Headnotes · 2017
• Socio-Economics: Challenging Mainstream Economic Models and Policies
  49 AKRON L. REV. (2015) · Akron Law Review · 2015
• Corporate Social Responsibility & Concession Theory
  6 WM. & MARY BUS. L. REV. 1 (2015) · William & Mary Business Law Review · 2015
• Rehabilitating Concession Theory
  66 OKLA. L. REV. 327 (2014) · Oklahoma Law Review · 2014
• The Dodd-Frank Corporation: More Than a Nexus-of-Contracts
  114 W. VA. L. REV. (2011) · West Virginia Law Review · 2011
• Immaterial Lies: Condoning Deceit in the Name of Securities Regulation
  61 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 143 (2010) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2010

• Who Should Do the Math? Materiality Issues in Disclosures that Require Investors to Calculate the Bottom Line
  34 PEPP. L. REV. (2007) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2007
• In Search of a Higher Standard: Rethinking Fiduciary Duties of Directors of Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries
  10 FORDHAM J. CORP. & FIN. L. 79 (2004) · Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law · 2004