This article is the first chapter of the second edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, by Reinier Kraakman, John...
This chapter sketches the history of EU Company Law, from its beginnings in the 1960s until today. Throughout all periods, EU company law harmonization...
Only rarely does the United States Supreme Court hear a case with fundamental implications for corporate law. In Carney v. Adams, however, the Supreme...
The paper describes the European Model Company Law Project. Last year, a commission was formed on the initiative of the authors with the goal of drafting a...
European corporate law has enjoyed a renaissance in the past decade. Fifteen years ago, this would have seemed most implausible. In the mid-1990s, the...
Many companies have recently been following the so-called corporate purpose concept that is recommended by leading management scholars. To this end,...
This Article offers a positive political economy of corporate federalism. It draws on the history of corporate law and basic concepts of evolutionary...