The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance

by Jeffrey N. Gordon, Wolf-Georg Ringe

Overview

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 finances that are interwoven with corporate governance, including insolvency, taxation, and securities law as well as financial regulation.

Now in paperback, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198743682
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/10/2018
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	1218
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 2.40(d)

About the Author

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 Law and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law. 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg RingePart 1: Theoretical Approaches, Tools, and Methods1. From Corporate Law to Corporate Governance, Ronald J. Gilson2. Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law and Governance, Jeffrey N. Gordon3. Corporate Governance and its Political Economy, Mark J. Roe and Massimiliano Vatiero4. The "Corporate Contract" Today, Michael Klausner5. The State of State Competition for Incorporations, Marcel Kahan6. Culture and Law in Corporate Governance, Amir N. Licht7. A Behavioural Perspective on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, Jaap Winter8. Empirical Studies in Corporate Law and Governance, Michael Klausner9. The Benefits and Costs of Indices in Empirical Corporate Governance Research, Allen Ferrell10. Taxonomies and Leximetric, Mathias M. SiemsPart II: Substantive Topics11. External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and their Subsidiaries, Henry Hansmann and Richard Squire12. The Board of Directors, Stephen M. Bainbridge13. Executive Remuneration, Guido Ferrarini and Cristina Ungureanu14. Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance, Edward Rock15. Shareholder Activism: A Renaissance, Wolf-Georg Ringe16. Corporate Short-Termism, Mark J. Roe17. Majority Control and Minority Protection, Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani18. Debt and Corporate Governance, Charles K. Whitehead19. Accounting and Financial Reporting: Global Aspirations, Local Realities, Lawrence A. Cunningham20. Related Party Transactions, Luca Enriques21. Control Shifts via Share Acquisition Contracts with Shareholders (Takeovers), Paul Davies22. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice, John C. Coates IV23. Groups of Companies, Klaus J. Hopt24. Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance, Cynthia A. Williams25. Comparative Corporate Governance in Closely Held Corporations, Holger FleischerPart III: New Challenges in Corporate Governance26. Western versus Asian Corporate Governance Environments: The Role of Enforcement in International Convergence, Hideki Kanda27. Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets, Mariana Pargendler28. The Governance Ecology of China's State-Owned Enterprises, Curtis J. Milhaupt29. The Rise of Foreign Ownership and Corporate Governance, Merritt B. Fox30. Governance by Institutional Investors in a Stakeholder World, Gerard Hertig32. Institutional Investors, Intermediation, and Internal Governance, Gerard Hertig31. New Metrics for Corporate Governance: Shifting Strategies in an Aging IPO Market, Erik VermeulenPart IV: Enforcement32. Corporate Law and Self-Regulation, David Kershaw33. The Evolution in the U.S. of Private Enforcement via Litigation and Monitoring Techniques: Are There Lessons for Germany?, James D. Cox and Randall S. Thomas34. Private and Public Enforcement of Securities Regulation, Howell E. Jackson and Jeffrey Y. Zhang35. Public Enforcement: Criminal versus Civil, Amanda M. Rose36. Corporate Litigation in Specialized Business Courts, Joseph A. McCahery and F. Alexander de Roode37. The Compliance Function: An Overview, Geoffrey Parsons MillerPart V: Adjacent Areas38. Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law, Horst Eidenmüller39. Corporate Governance and Employment Relations, Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin40. Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, and Securities Law, Adam C. Pritchard41. Vertical and Horizontal Problems in Financial Regulation and Corporate Governance, Jonathan R. Macey and Maureen O'Hara42. Corporate Governance in Banks, John Armour43. Tax and Corporate Governance: The Influence of Tax on Managerial Agency Costs, David M. Schizer

Editorial Reviews

"this volume is a treasure trove for anyone with an interest in corporate law and governance, and it is not possible in a short review to do justice to the many excellent contributions within it. ... academics and students working in the area will find it particularly useful as a module resource ... Equally, practitioners will value the comprehensive picture which is painted and they will learn much from the comparative material indicating how other jurisdictions manage similar problems. All readers will enjoy these interesting and challenging chapters about the regulation of companies and their role in modern capitalism. The editors are to be congratulated on their outstanding efforts in producing such a compelling volume." — Brenda M. Hannigan, International Company and Commercial Law Review

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