This chapter provides a concise survey of Israeli corporate law. The chapter opens with a description of the law’s approach to corporate legal personality and foundational documents, and, next, to institutional organs and...
The paper surveys the corporate opportunities doctrine in four jurisdictions: the US, the UK, Germany, and France. Our analysis enables us to trace the development of the doctrine, exposing the way in which certain models of dealing...
This paper explores the issue of ?re-making? corporate law through the prism of the United Nations? recent efforts at reducing legal obstacles experienced by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in starting and scaling a...
The most fundamental comparative corporate governance debates have often focused on two issues. The first one concerns ownership structure: Why are large corporations in some corporate governance system owned by a multitude of...
The Volcker rule ? a key part of Congress?s response to the financial crisis ? is best understood as a ?structural law,? a traditional Anglo-American technique for governance of hybrid public-private institutions such as banks and...
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 early integration strategy of seeking to harmonise substantive company law seemed...
Relatively little is known about the corporate governance practice of firms in emerging markets. We provide a detailed overview of the practices of publicly traded firms in India, and identify areas where governance practices are...
A long-held view in corporate circles has been that furious rapid trading in stock markets has been increasing in recent decades, justifying corporate governance and corporate law measures, such as development and application of...
In consequence of the three ECJ cases in Centros (1999), Überseering (2002), and Inspire Art (2003), EU member states can no longer effectively apply the real seat theory to companies from other Member States or take other measures to...
