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Comparative Corporate Governance

By

Afra Afsharipour, Martin Gelter
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Edward Elgar Publishing

This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.

Through coverage of key jurisdictions in Asia, Europe and the Americas, this research handbook reveals differences and similarities between legal traditions that have shaped different countries’ laws, and the extent to which these laws have become more similar over the past decades. It takes a broad perspective throughout comparative corporate governance, considering the rights and duties of shareholders, including controlling and minority shareholders, directors and the relationship between their powers. Chapters address key topics such as the methods and goals of comparative corporate governance research and enforcement of corporate governance.

Informative and perceptive, Comparative Corporate Governance will be a key resource for academics and students in commercial law, comparative law and government studies. Internationally oriented corporate law practitioners and law firms will also be interested in the legal information contained in the chapters.

Contributors: 

A. Afsharipour, G. Balp, C.M. Bruner, B. Choudhury, P.-H. Conac, S. Cools, M. Corradi, J.J. du Plessis, M. Gelter, C. Gerner-Beuerle, M. Gutiérrez Urtiaga, A. Hamdani, S. Hannes, V. Harper Ho, G. Helleringer, K.J. Hopt, S.Y. Kang, V.S. Khanna, A.K. Koh, P.C. Leyens, L.-W. Lin, M. Petrin, D. Rosenblum, M.I. Sáez Lacave, S.S. Tang, A.F. Tuch, U. Varottil, M. Ventoruzzo, C.A. Williams

Authors

Afra Afsharipour

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

Martin Gelter

Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
Research Member

Christopher Bruner

Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law
University of Georgia School of Law
Research Member

Pierre-Henri Conac

Professor of Commercial and Company Law
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg
Research Member

Martin Gelter

Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
Research Member

Klaus Hopt

Emeritus Professor
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Fellow, Research Member
Sang Yop Kang

Sang Yop Kang

Professor
Peking University, School of Transnational Law
Research Member
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Martin Petrin

Professor and Dancap Private Equity Chair in Corporate Governance
University of Western Ontario
Research Member

Andrew Tuch

Professor of Law
Washington University in St Louis School of Law
Research Member

Umakanth Varottil

Professor of Law
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Research Member

Marco Ventoruzzo

Head of Department and Professor of Corporate Law
Paolo Baffi Center on Financial Regulation, Bocconi University Law Department
Research Member

Reviews

Comparative Corporate Governance is an excellent “go-to” guidebook for both academics and practitioners in corporate law and finance.

— Irina Bevza, LSE Review of Books

Afra Afsharipour and Martin Gelter have assembled an outstanding and truly diverse team of corporate law scholars to give us a state-of-the-art snapshot of both new and old key topics in comparative corporate governance. Many of this book’s chapters are destined to become a key reference for future scholarship in the field.

— Luca Enriques, University of Oxford, UK

Thoughtfully curated, skillfully executed, and refreshingly global, this research handbook provides novel insights on the most important areas in the field from established leaders and rising stars. It is a must have resource for anyone interested in comparative corporate governance.

— Dan W. Puchniak, National University of Singapore
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