Company Law

Optional Rather than Mandatory EU Company Law: Framework and Specific Proposals

Comparative Corporate Governance: Old and New

The most fundamental comparative corporate governance debates have often focused on two issues. The first one concerns ownership structure: Why are...

Empirical Studies of Corporate Law

This chapter reviews the empirical literature, especially the event study literature, as it relates to corporate and securities law. Event studies are...

Who Should Make Corporate Law? EC Legislation Versus Regulatory Competition

This paper makes a case for the future development of European corporate law through regulatory competition rather than EC legislation. It is for the...

Why Do Businesses Incorporate in Other EU Member States? An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Conflict of Laws Rules

Research in law, political science and economics has taken a strong interest in the way companies strategically incorporate in foreign jurisdictions....

Centros, California’s “Women on Boards” Statute and the Scope of Regulatory Competition

In its 1999 Centros decision, the European Court of Justice affirmed that the EU right of establishment protects a corporation’s right to select a...

Singapore’s Puzzling Embrace of Shareholder Stewardship: A Successful Secret

In the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the UK created the first stewardship code which was designed to transform its rationally passive...

The Rise of International Corporate Law

Comparative corporate governance has focused either on prevailing differences across legal systems, or on spontaneous legal transplants of foreign...

The law and economics of comparative corporate law

In this paper, we explain the methodological shifts that have occurred over time in the study of company law. Our hypothesis is that comparative...

The Societas Europaea: a network economics approach

An End to Consensus? The Selective Impact of Corporate Law Reform on Financial Development

The States as a Laboratory: Legal Innovation and State Competition for Corporate Charters

Corporate law is an arena in which the metaphor of the states as a laboratory describes actual practice, and, for the most part, this is a laboratory that...