Contract or Concession?: An Essay on the History of Corporate Law

Date

2000

Citation

Paul G. Mahoney, Contract or Concession?: An Essay on the History of Corporate Law, 34 Georgia Law Review, 873–893 (2000).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Paul G. Mahoney

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

Center for Empirical Studies in Law

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