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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance

Author: Jeffrey N. Gordon; Wolf-Georg Ringe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198743682
Published In: May 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance provides the global framework necessary to understand the aims and methods of legal research in this field. Written by leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook contains a rich variety of chapters that provide a comparative and functional overview of corporate governance.

It opens with the central theoretical approaches and methodologies in corporate law scholarship in Part I, before examining core substantive topics in corporate law, including shareholder rights, takeovers and restructuring, and minority rights in Part II. Part III focuses on new challenges in the field, including conflicts between Western and Asian corporate governance environments, the rise of foreign ownership, and emerging markets. Enforcement issues are covered in Part IV, and Part V takes a broader approach, examining those areas of law and finance that are interwoven with corporate governance, including insolvency, taxation, and securities law as well as financial regulation.

The Handbook is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary resource placing corporate law and governance in its wider context, and is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the field.

PART L: THEORETICAL APPROACHES, TOOLS, AND METHODS
1. Theories of Corporate Law
2. Regulatory Competition
3. Corporate Law and Politics
4. Contractual Theory
5. Law and Culture
6. Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law
7. Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions
8. Accounting and Reporting
9. Economic Tools in Corporate Law
10. Behavioural Perspectives
11. Taxonomies and Leximetric Approaches

PART II: SUBSTANTIVE TOPICS
12. Separate Legal Personality / Asset Partitioning
13. Limited Liability
14. Board of Directors
15. Executive Compensation
16. Shareholder Rights
17. Institutional Investors
18. Activist Shareholders
19. Short-termism
20. Minority Protection
21. Creditors in Corporate Law
22. Related Party Transactions
23. Takeovers and Control Transactions
24. Restructurings and Mergers and Acquisitions
25. Groups of Companies
26. Governance of Private Firms
27. Corporate Social Responsibility

PART III: NEW CHALLENGES IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
28. Western versus Asian Corporate Governance Environments
29. Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets
30. Chinese Corporate Governance
31. The Rise of Foreign Ownership
32. Institutional Investors, Intermediation, and Internal Governance
33. Market Integration and Globalization
34. Extraterritorial Application

PART IV: ENFORCEMENT
35. Self-Regulation in Corporate Law
36. Private Enforcement
37. Public Enforcement (Public versus Private Enforcement)
38. Public Enforcement (Criminal versus Civil Santions)
39. Specialised Company Courts + Delaware
40. Compliance in Corporate Law

PART V: ADJACENT AREAS
41. Corporate Finance
42. Insolvency Law
43. Contract Law
44. Employment Law and Industrial Relations
45. Capital Markets / Securities Law
46. Financial Regulation
47. Taxation Law