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The Power to Shape the “Political”
Amanda Shanor
Assistant Professor and Wolpow Family Faculty Scholar, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Thank you to the editors of the University of Chicago Business Law Review, including Anna Dincher and Maddie Fleming, for organizing this rich conversation and for their helpful comments and suggestions. I am grateful to Emily Chapuis, Sarah Light, Elizabeth Pollman, and Robert Post for helpful conversations and feedback that sharpened these ideas. All errors are my own.

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How Did Corporations Get Stuck in Politics and Can They Escape?
Jill E. Fisch
Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

We are grateful for helpful comments from Reilly Steel, Heidi Welsh, and participants in the Wharton/Penn Law Women in Law and Finance Conference, the Penn Law Faculty Ad Hoc Seminar, the Berkeley Forum on Corporate Governance, the Section on Business Associations at the AALS Annual Meeting, the BYU Winter Deals Conference, the University of Chicago Business Law Review Symposium on the Corporation’s Role in Politics, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Faculty Seminar, the Global Corporate Governance Colloquium, the Global Institutional Governance Network, and the University of Texas Faculty Workshop.

Jeff Schwartz
Hugh B. Brown Presidential Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law.

We are grateful for helpful comments from Reilly Steel, Heidi Welsh, and participants in the Wharton/Penn Law Women in Law and Finance Conference, the Penn Law Faculty Ad Hoc Seminar, the Berkeley Forum on Corporate Governance, the Section on Business Associations at the AALS Annual Meeting, the BYU Winter Deals Conference, the University of Chicago Business Law Review Symposium on the Corporation’s Role in Politics, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Faculty Seminar, the Global Corporate Governance Colloquium, the Global Institutional Governance Network, and the University of Texas Faculty Workshop.

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Corporate Participation in Social Debates
Anna Toniolo
Fellow and Director, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, and SJD candidate, Harvard Law School.

For helpful comments and discussions, I would like to thank Lucian Bebchuk, Shelley Alpern, Jane Bestor, John Coates, Alma Cohen, Louis Kaplow, Reiner Kraakman, Ignacio Orellana Garcia, Anete Pajuste, Ariel Rava, Kathy Spier, Tom Zur, and participants in the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Workshop, the Harvard Law School Graduate Program LLM Paper Presentation, The University of Chicago Business Law Review Symposium 2024, and the 2024 National Business Law Scholars Conference. I am also grateful to the Center for Political Accountability for sharing the data on the corporate political contributions to RAGA and DAGA, and in particular to Bruce Freed and Jeanne Hanna.

“It’s never been more essential for CEOs to have a consistent voice.”

– Larry Fink, 2022 Annual Letter to CEOs

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