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David Millon

Email: millond@wlu.edu
Office: 4003 Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8993
Fax: 540-458-8488

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David Millon

J. B. Stombock Professor of Law

B.A. 1975, cum laude, M.A., 1976, Ohio State University; M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1982, Cornell University (History); J.D. 1983, Harvard University, cum laude.


Publications

SSRN Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Books, including monographs and treatises

Select Ecclesiastical Cases from the King's Courts 1272-1307 (Selden Society, vol. 126, 2009).  

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Human Rights and Delaware Corporate Law, 25 Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 173 (2012) (Symposium: The Global Impact and Implementation of Human Rights Norms).

Two Models of Corporate Social Responsibility, 46 Wake Forest L. Rev. 523 (2011).   

Keeping Hope Alive, 68 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 369 (2011) (Washington & Lee Law Alumni Association Student Notes Colloquium).

Response, The Still-Elusive Quest to Make Sense of Veil-Piercing, 89 Texas Law Review See Also 15 (2010).   

The Single Constituency Argument in the Economic Analysis of Business Law, 24 Research in Law and Economics: A Journal of Policy 43 (2009).

Roger Groot, Legal Historian, 64 Washington and Lee Law Review 34 (2007). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Piercing the Corporate Veil, Financial Responsibility, and the Limits of Limited Liability, 56 Emory Law Journal 1305 (2007). ((reprinted in 49 Corporate Practice Commentator 857 (2008) and in Revista Juridica Empresarial [Brazil] 185 (Nov.-Dec. 2008))) (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Remarks delivered at Roundtable on Criminalization of Corporate Law: The Impact on Shareholders and Other Constituents, 2 Journal of Business & Technology Law 101 (2007). (Available at: Westlaw)

A Tribute to Frederic L. Kirgis, 62 Washington and Lee Law Review 833 (2005). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Recalling Why Corporate Officers are Fiduciaries, 46 William and Mary Law Review 1597 (2005). (with David Millon and Lyman Johnson) (reprinted in 47 Corporate Practice Commentator 785 (2005)) (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Who "Caused" the Enron Debacle?, 60 Washington and Lee Law Review 309 (2003). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Worker Ownership Through 401(K) Retirement Plans: Enron's Cautionary Tale, 76 St. John's Law Review 835 (2002) (Symposium: Enron and Its Aftermath). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Why is Corporate Management Obsessed With Quarterly Earnings and What Should Be Done About It?, 70 George Washington Law Review 890 (2002) (Symposium: Corporate Irresponsibility: America's Newest Export?). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Enron and the Dark Side of Worker Ownership, 1 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 113 (2002). (Available at: Westlaw)

The Ambiguous Significance of Corporate Personhood, 2 Stanford Agora: An Online Journal of Legal Perspectives (2001).

New Game Plan or Business as Usual? A Critique of the Team Production Model of Corporate Law, 86 Virginia Law Review 1001 (2000). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Statutes, in Medieval England: An Encyclopedia 713 (Paul E. Szarmach et al. eds., Garland Pub. 1998).

Juries and the Jury System, in Medieval England: An Encyclopedia 386 (Paul E. Szarmach et al. eds., Garland Pub. 1998).

Default Rules, Wealth Distribution, and Corporate Law Reform: Employment at Will Versus Job Security, 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 975 (1998). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Personifying the Corporate Body, 2 Graven Images: A Journal of Culture, Law and the Sacred 116 (1995).

Communitarianism in Corporate Law: Foundations and Law Reform Strategies, in Progressive Corporate Law 1 (Lawrence E. Mitchell ed., Westview Press 1995).

Corporate Takeovers and Corporate Law: Who's in Control?, 61 George Washington Law Review 1177 (1993) (Symposium: The American Law Institute's Principles of Corporate Governance). (with David Millon and Lyman Johnson) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Communitarians, Contractarians, and the Crisis in Corporate Law, 50 Washington and Lee Law Review 1373 (1993) (Symposium: New Directions in Corporate Law). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Objectivity and Democracy, 67 New York University Law Review 1 (1992). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Redefining Corporate Law, 24 Indiana Law Review 223 (1991). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Theories of the Corporation, 1990 Duke Law Journal 201 (1990). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The First Antitrust Statute, 29 Washburn Law Journal 141 (1990) (National Association of Attorneys General Antitrust Centennial Symposium). (Available at: Hein-Online)

The Case Beyond Time, 45 Business Lawyer 2105 (1990). (with David Millon and Lyman Johnson) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Juries, Judges and Democracy, 18 Law and Social Inquiry 135 (1993) (reviewing Shannon C. Stimson, The American Revolution in the Law: Anglo-American Jurisprudence Before John Marshall (1990)). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Positivism in the Historiography of the Common Law, 1989 Wisconsin Law Review 669. (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Missing the Point About State Takeover Statutes, 87 Michigan Law Review 846 (1989). (reprinted in 31 Corporate Practice Commentator 581 (1990)) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Misreading the Williams Act, 87 Michigan Law Review 1862 (1989). (with David Millon and Lyman Johnson) (reprinted in 33 Corporate Practice Commentator 221 (1991)) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Does the Williams Act Preempt State Common Law in Hostile Takeovers?, 16 Securities Regulation Law Journal 339 (1989). (with David Millon and Lyman Johnson)

State Takeover Laws: A Rebirth of Corporation Law?, 45 Washington and Lee Law Review 903 (1988). (Available at: Hein-Online)

The Sherman Act and the Balance of Power, 61 Southern California Law Review 1219 (1988). (excerpted in The Political Economy of the Sherman Act: The First One Hundred Years 85 (E. Thomas Sullivan ed., Oxford University Press 1991) and in An Antitrust Anthology 54 (Andrew I. Gavil ed., Anderson Pub. Co. 1996)) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Medieval England, 1984 University of Illinois Law Review 621. (Available at: Lexis)

Circumspecte Agatis Revisited, 2 Law and History Review 105 (1984). (Available at: Hein-Online)

International Trade: FTC Service of Subpoena Abroad, 22 Harvard International Law Journal 458 (1981). (student piece) (Available at: Hein-Online)

Book Reviews

Book Review, 52 Am. J. Legal Hist. 500 (2012) (reviewing, Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer, Mary Sarah Bilder, Maeva Marcus & R. Kent Newmyer (eds.) 2009).

Book Review, 12 Law and History Review 181 (1994) (reviewing Norman Doe, Fundamental Authority in Late Medieval English Law (1990)). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Newspapers, Website, Magazines, and other general media

The Enron Pension Disaster, 3 W&L Law: Washington and Lee University School of Law Magazine, Fall 2002, at 24.


For the Media

Professor Millon is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Corporate Law 
• Legal History (English Legal History)
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers 

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