Legal Origins of Corporate Governance: Choice of Company Law in Egypt, 1887-1913

In anticipation of the sixth Global Corporate Governance Colloquium, which was held online on 11-12 June 2021, Yale University in collaboration with ECGI presented a virtual workshop on ‘The History of the Corporation’ on 10 June 2021. The workshop highlighted the Imperial Russia, turn of the century Egypt and China, Edwardian Britain and the Gilded Age US, exploring issues of corporate governance that continue to resonate in the present day. The organisers of the workshop are Henry Hansmann (Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School and ECGI) and Naomi Lamoreaux (Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History, Yale University).

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