The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance

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. Contributors to this volume - Stephen Bainbridge, William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA Law John C. Coates, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School Jack C. Coffee, Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia Law School James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law Lawrence A. Cunningham, Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington Law Robert M. Daines, Pritzker Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School Paul Davies, Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford Simon F. Deakin, Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge Horst Eidenmuller, Professor of Private Law, German, European and International Commercial and Corporate Law at Munich University Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford Guido Ferrarini, Professor of Business Law at the University of Genoa Allen Ferrell, Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law at Harvard Law School Holger Fleischer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg Merritt B. Fox, Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law and NASDAQ Professor for Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia Law School Ronald Gilson, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business at Columbia Law School Jeffrey N. Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School Zohar Goshen, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School Assaf Hamdani, Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Henry Hansmann, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law at Yale Law School Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Klaus J. Hopt, Former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg Howell E. Jackson, James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Professor of Law at Columbia Law School Marcel Kahan, George T. Lowy Professor of Law at NYU Law Hideki Kanda, Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo David Kershaw, Professor of Law at the LSE Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School Amir Licht, Professor at Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Jonathan R. Macey, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University Joseph A. McCahery, Professor of Corporate Governance and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam Curtis J. Milhaupt, Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law and Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law at Columbia Law School Geoffrey Parsons Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law at NYU Law Mariana Pargendler, Professor of Law at Fundacao Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paolo Adam C. Pritchard, Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law at Michigan Law Georg Ringe, Professor of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School and Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford Edward B. Rock, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Mark J. Roe, David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Amanda M. Rose, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt School of Law David M. Schizer, Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics at Columbia Law School Robert E. Scott, Alfred McCormack Professor of Law at Columbia Law School Mathias Siems, Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University Richard Squire, Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law Eric Talley, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy at Berkeley Law Randall Thomas, John S. Beasley II Professor of Law and Business at Vanderbilt Law School Cristina Ungureanu, Head of Corporate Governance Advisory at Sodali Massimiliano Vatiero, Senior Assistant Professor of Law and Economics at the Institute of Law (IDUSI) and Institute of Economics (IdEP), Universita della Svizzera italiana. Erik Vermeulen, Professor of Business & Financial Law at Tilburg Law School Charles K. Whitehead, Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law at Cornell Law School Cynthia Williams, Osler Chair in Business Law at Osgoode Hall Law School Jaap Winter, President of the Executive Board at VU University Amsterdam Jeffrey Y. Zhang, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Dayton