The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance

Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance provides the global framework necessary to understand the aims and methods of legal research in this field.

Written by leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook contains a rich variety of chapters that provide a comparative and functional overview of corporate governance. It opens with the central theoretical approaches and methodologies in corporate law scholarship in Part I, before examining core substantive topics in corporate law, including shareholder rights, takeovers and restructuring, and minority rights in Part II. Part III focuses on new challenges in the field, including conflicts between Western and Asian corporate governance environments, the rise of foreign ownership, and emerging markets. Enforcement issues are covered in Part IV, and Part V takes a broader approach, examining those areas of law and finance that are interwoven with corporate governance, including insolvency, taxation, and securities law as well as financial regulation.

The Handbook is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary resource placing corporate law and governance in its wider context, and is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the field.

Contributors:

Zoe Adams, Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
John Armour, Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University
Stephen Bainbridge, William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA Law
John C. Coates, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School and Research Director, the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School
James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law
Lawrence A. Cunningham, Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington Law
Paul Davies, Senior Research Fellow and Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
Simon F. Deakin, Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge
Horst Eidenmüller, Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law and Professorial Fellow of St. Hugh's College at the University of Oxford
Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford
Guido Ferrarini, Professor Emeritus of Business Law at the University of Genoa
Allen Ferrell, Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law at Harvard Law School
Holger Fleischer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Merritt B. Fox, Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law and NASDAQ Professor for Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia Law School
Ronald J. Gilson, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School, Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business at Columbia Law School and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Jeffrey N. Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Zohar Goshen, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Assaf Hamdani, Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Henry Hansmann, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Klaus J. Hopt, Former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Howell E. Jackson, James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Marcel Kahan, George T. Lowy Professor of Law at New York University, School of Law
Hideki Kanda, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo and Professor at Gakushuin University
David Kershaw, Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
Amir N. Licht, Professor at Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Jonathan R. Macey, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law, Yale Law School
Joseph A. McCahery, Professor of International Economic Law at the Tilburg University
Curtis J. Milhaupt, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, NYU Law School
Maureen O'Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professor of Management, Cornell University
Mariana Pargendler, Professor of Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paulo, and Global Professor of Law at New York University, School of Law
Adam.C. Pritchard, Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law at Michigan University
Georg Ringe, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg; Visiting Professor, University of Oxford
Edward Rock, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance, NYU Law School
Mark J. Roe, David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Alexander de Roode, Researcher at the Quantitative Research department of Robeco
Amanda M. Rose, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt School of Law
David M. Schizer, Dean Emeritus and Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics at Columbia Law School
Mathias Siems, Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University and Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge
Richard Squire, Alpin J. Cameron Chair in Law at Fordham Law School
Randall S. Thomas, John S. Beasley II Professor of Law and Business at Vanderbilt Law School
Cristina Ungureanu, Head of Corporate Governance at Eurizon
Massimiliano Vatiero, Galli Chair of Law and Economics at the Law Institute (IDUSI) of the Università della Svizzera italiana.
Erik Vermeulen, Professor of Business & Financial Law at Tilburg Law School
Charles K. Whitehead, Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law at Cornell Law School and Professor and Director, Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship Program, at Cornell Tech
Cynthia A. Williams, Osler Chair in Business Law at Osgoode Hall Law School
Jaap Winter, President of the Executive Board at VU University Amsterdam
Jeffrey Y. Zhang, economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System