Description
Corporate law and governance are at the forefront of regulatory activities worldwide, and subject to increasing public attention in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Comprehensively referencing the key debates, the Handbook provides a much-needed framework for understanding the aims and methods of legal research in the field. Jeffrey Gordon is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia Law School. He is also the Co-Director of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, and the Co-Director for the Center for Law and Economic Studies. His main areas of interest are in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, comparative corporate governance, and the regulation of financial institutions. ; Wolf-Georg Ringe is a Professor of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School. He also teaches on the faculty of law at the University of Oxford and is a research fellow at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law and an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He is the general editor of the new Journal of Financial Regulation, published by Oxford University Press since 2015. Georg Ringe teaches various courses in the field of corporate and business law, and his current research interests are in the general area of law and finance, comparative corporate governance, capital and financial markets, insolvency law, and conflict of laws. Part l: Theoretical Approaches, Tools, and Methods; 1 Ronald Gilson: Theories of Corporate Law; 2 Marcel Kahan: Regulatory Competition; 3 Mark J. Roe and Massimiliano Vatiero: Corporate Governance and its Political Economy; 4 Michael Klausner: Contractual Theory; 5 Amir Licht: Law and Culture; 6 Jeffrey N. Gordon and Mark Roe: Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law; 7 Jeffrey N. Gordon: Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions; 8 Lawrence A. Cunningham: Accounting and Reporting; 9 Allen Ferrell: Economic Tools in Corporate Law; 10 Jaap Winter: Behavioural Perspectives; 11 Mathias Siems: Taxonomies and Leximetric Approaches; Part II: Substantive Topics; 12 Richard Squire and Henry Hansmann: Separate Legal Personality / Asset Partitioning; 13 Eric Talley: Limited Liability; 14 Stephen Bainbridge: Board of Directors; 15 Guido Ferrarini and Cristina Ungureanu: Executive Compensation; 16 Robert M. Daines: Shareholder Rights; 17 Edward B. Rock: Institutional Investors; 18 Georg Ringe: Activist Shareholders; 19 Mark J. Roe: Short-termism; 20 Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani: Minority Protection; 21 Charles Whitehead: Creditors in Corporate Law; 22 Luca Enriques: Related Party Transactions; 23 Paul Davies: Takeovers and Control Transactions; 24 John C. Coates: Restructurings and Mergers and Acquisitions; 25 Klaus J. Hopt: Groups of Companies; 26 Holger Fleischer: Governance of Private Firms; 27 Cynthia Williams: Corporate Social Responsibility; Part III: New Challenges in Corporate Governance; 28 Hideki Kanda: Western versus Asian Corporate Governance Environments; 29 Mariana Pargendler: Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets; 30 Curtis J. Milhaupt: Chinese Corporate Governance; 31 Merritt Fox: The Rise of Foreign Ownership; 32 Gerard Hertig: Institutional Investors, Intermediation, and Internal Governance; 33 Erik Vermeulen: Market Integration and Globalization; 34 Jack Coffee: Extraterritorial Application; Part IV: Enforcement; 35 David Kershaw: Self-Regulation in Corporate Law; 36 Randall Thomas and James D. Cox: Private Enforcement; 37 Howell E. Jackson and Jeffrey Y. Zhang: Public Enforcement (Public versus Private Enforcement); 38 Amanda Rose: Public Enforcement (Criminal versus Civil Santions); 39 Joseph A. McCahery: Specialised Company Courts + Delaware; 40 Geoffrey Miller: Compliance in Corporate Law; Part V: Adjacent Areas; 41 Robert Jackson: Corporate Finance; 42 Horst Eidenmuller: Insolvency Law; 43 Robert E. Scott: Contract Law; 44 Simon F. Deakin: Employment Law and Industrial Relations; 45 Adam Pritchard: Capital Markets / Securities Law; 46 Jonathan R. Macey: Financial Regulation; 47 David M. Schizer: Taxation Law
