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Expressing disappointment that the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer is scheduled to consider whether to adopt rules that would require public companies to disclose their political spending, Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk and Columbia...

What is a charity? In general, we think of it as an organization that does something to further the public good, doesn’t make a profit and is tax-exempt. We feel good about giving to them because they help people or do something good for society...

A few years ago -- around the time of the 2010 Citizens United decision -- I was thinking about "corporate citizenship" and corporate " speech ." These ideas don't make sense to me. Corporations are a legal construct -- something...

by Marcel Bucsescu It seems that no matter where you turn on the web these days, there is mention of Citizens United. Two years later, this is still an issue of focus for companies, shareholders, and increasingly, the SEC. The Conference Board...

This week the jury began deliberations in the Robert Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme case without hearing from Mr. Stanford despite promises to the contrary from defense counsel at the beginning of the trial. Granger announced an SEC FCPA probe centered on...

PHILADELPHIA - Does the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. engage in judicial activism? Yes, according to a reporter who has covered the high court for more than 50 years. But, he says, that's not a negative quality, or unusual...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - (AP) A judge has ruled that the campaign-finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional, citing the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision last year in his analysis...