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Book SynopsisCorporate 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.
Table of ContentsJeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe: Introduction Part l: Theoretical Approaches, Tools, and Methods 1: Ronald J. Gilson: From Corporate Law to Corporate Governance 2: Jeffrey N. Gordon: Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law and Governance 3: Mark J. Roe and Massimiliano Vatiero: Corporate Governance and Its Political Economy 4: Michael Klausner: The "Corporate Contract" Today 5: Marcel Kahan: The State of State Competition for Incorporations 6: Amir N. Licht: Culture and Law in Corporate Governance 7: Jaap Winter: A Behavioural Perspective on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance 8: Michael Klausner: Empirical Studies in Corporate Law and Governance 9: Allen Ferrell: The Benefits and Costs of Indices in Empirical Corporate Governance Research 10: Mathias M. Siems: Taxonomies and Leximetrics Part II: Substantive Topics 11: Henry Hansmann and Richard Squire: External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries 12: Stephen M. Bainbridge: The Board of Directors 13: Guido Ferrarini and Cristina Ungureanu: Executive Remuneration 14: Edward Rock: Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance 15: Wolf-Georg Ringe: Shareholder Activism: A Renaissance 16: Mark J. Roe: Corporate Short-Termism 17: Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani: Majority Control and Minority Protection 18: Charles K. Whitehead: Debt and Corporate Governance 19: Lawrence A. Cunningham: Accounting and Financial Reporting: Global Aspirations, Local Realities 20: Luca Enriques: Related Party Transactions 21: Paul Davies: Control Shifts via Share Acquisition Contracts with Shareholders (Takeovers) 22: John C. Coates IV: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice 23: Klaus J. Hopt: Groups of Companies 24: Cynthia A. Williams: Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance 25: Holger Fleischer: Comparative Corporate Governance in Closely Held Corporations Part III: New Challenges in Corporate Governance 26: Hideki Kanda: Western versus Asian Corporate Governance Environments: The Role of Enforcement in International Convergence 27: Mariana Pargendler: Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets 28: Curtis J. Milhaupt: The Governance Ecology of China's State-Owned Enterprises 29: Merritt B. Fox: The Rise of Foreign Ownership and Corporate Governance 30: Gerard Hertig: Governance by Institutional Investors in a Stakeholder World 31: Erik Vermeulen: New Metrics for Corporate Governance: Shifting Strategies in an Aging IPO Market Part IV: Enforcement 32: David Kershaw: Corporate Law and Self-Regulation 33: James D. Cox and Randall S. Thomas: The Evolution in the U.S. of Private Enforcement via Litigation and Monitoring Techniques: Are There Lessons for Germany? 34: Howell E. Jackson and Jeffrey Y. Zhang: Private and Public Enforcement of Securities Regulation 35: Amanda M. Rose: Public Enforcement: Criminal versus Civil 36: Joseph A. McCahery and F. Alexander de Roode: Corporate Litigation in Specialized Business Courts 37: Geoffrey Parsons Miller: The Compliance Function: An Overview Part V: Adjacent Areas 38: Horst Eidenmüller: Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law 39: Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations 40: A.C. Pritchard: Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, and Securities Law 41: Jonathan R. Macey and Maureen O'Hara: Vertical and Horizontal Problems in Financial Regulation and Corporate Governance 42: John Armour: Corporate Governance in Banks 43: David M. Schizer: Tax and Corporate Governance: The Influence of Tax on Managerial Agency Costs
