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Board-Shareholder Dialogue

Policy Debate, Legal Constraints and Best Practices

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Luca Enriques, Giovanni Strampelli
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Cambridge University Press

This book provides corporate law scholars and students and practitioners at law firms, advisory services firms and asset managers with a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the financial, managerial, policy and legal issues arising from a key feature of today's corporate governance environment, namely, the dialogue between shareholders and corporate boards. Bringing together top corporate law and corporate governance scholars from the world's leading academic institutions, the collection is characterized by a multi-dimensional approach that takes into account the particularities of some national legal systems and combines theoretical analysis with practical insights into various aspects of board-shareholder dialogue.

Contributors

Luca Enriques, Giovanni Strampelli, Oliver Hart, Luigi Zingales, Paul A. Davies, Colin Mayer, Marcel Kahan, Edward Rock, Wolf Georg Ringe, Dorothy Lund, Adriana Z. Robertson, Lars Klöhn, Ana Taleska, Jennifer Paybe, Afra Afsharipour, Peter O. Mülbert, Alexander Sajnovits, Matteo Gatti, Matteo Tonello, Anna Christie, Dionysia Katelouzou, Tim Bowley, Jennifer G. Hill, Steve Kourabas, Lisa M. Fairfax, Jill Fisch, Anne Lafarre, Christoph Van der Elst, Lin Lin

Authors

Luca Enriques

Professor of Business Law
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies
Fellow, Research Member

Oliver Hart

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Department of Economics, Harvard University
Fellow, Research Member
Luigi Zingales

Luigi Zingales

Robert C. McCormack Professor Entrepreneurship & Finance
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Fellow, Research Member

Paul Davies

Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law; Senior Research Fellow
University of Oxford
Fellow, Research Member

Colin Mayer

Emeritus Professor of Management Studies
Blavatnik School of Government and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Fellow, Research Member

Marcel Kahan

George T. Lowy Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Fellow, Research Member

Edward Rock

Martin Lipton Professor of Law
NYU Law
Fellow, Research Member
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Dorothy S. Lund

Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership
Columbia Law School
Research Member
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Adriana Robertson

Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law
University of Chicago
Research Member

Afra Afsharipour

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law
University of California
Research Member
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Anna Christie

Departmental Lecturer in Law and Finance
University of Oxford Faculty of Law
Academic Member
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Dionysia Katelouzou

Reader in Corporate Law
The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
Research Member

Jennifer Hill

Bob Baxt AO Chair in Corporate and Commercial Law
Monash University
Research Member
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Steve Kourabas

Deputy Director of Monash Law School's Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies
Monash University
Representative Member
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Lisa Fairfax

Presidential Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Research Member

Jill Fisch

Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Research Member

Lin Lin

Associate Professor
National University of Singapore
Research Member

Reviews

This superb book brings together top scholars from around the world on one of the most important corporate governance issues of our time: engagement between boards of directors and institutional shareholders.

— Elizabeth Pollman - Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Board-Shareholder Dialogue is a comprehensive compendium of the current state of play of shareholder engagement in US, European and East Asian companies, authored by eminent academics in the field. It elegantly covers several topical and important aspects of corporate governance, and forms an invaluable guide for researchers, practitioners and policymakers.

— Bobby V. Reddy - Professor of Corporate Law and Governance, University of Cambridge

This collection of papers provides rigorous and thoughtful analyses of the role that the dialogue between boards of directors and shareholders plays in the governance and long-term performance of companies. Its analysis of the ESG investment and engagement strategies by investors greatly deepens our understanding of the motivations and impact of these initiatives. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to this set of issues written by some of the leading scholars in the field.

— Joseph A. McCahery - Professor, Tilburg University
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