From Public Servant to Private Business: Dartmouth College and the Transformation of the Corporation
Dartmouth College v. Woodward

From Public Servant to Private Business: Dartmouth College and the Transformation of the Corporation

Editors’ Note: Evelyn Atkinson continues HistPhil‘s forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College v. Woodward case. In 1853, the Supreme Court of Ohio declared that the case of Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) had become “a subterfuge for fraud and a means of shielding corporations from responsibility and correction for the abuse of their corporate … Continue reading