Marc Steinberg, Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, says that corporate officers and directors aren’t truly fiduciaries, and proposes the use of a new term, “discretionaries,” to capture the standard to which they are actually held.
Professor Steinberg relays that
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