Rubenfeld, Jed2021-11-262021-11-261988-01-01Jed Rubenfeld, State Takeover Legislation and the Commerce Clause: The Foreign Corporations Problem, 36 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 355 (1988).4112249http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/3639That a corporation should be "incorporated" in, or "chartered" by, a particular state is a peculiar and vexing circumstance. It is by no means immutable. A federal corporations code has been mooted about, multi-state-chartered corporations occasionally appear, and murmurs of doing away with the entire concept of "chartering" a corporation have been heard from time to time. But state incorporation is the ruling corporate form, and the problem it creates is a serious and thorny one: the problem, that is, of regulating "foreign" corporations. How far may one state go in regulating another state's corporations?https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4175https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5179&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1