Economic Transplants - On Lawmaking for Corporations and Capital Markets

Offers a comprehensive theory on the risks and benefits of incorporating economic theory in capital markets and corporate lawmaking.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. The Promises of Economic Transplants: 1. Economic methodology, its scientific turn and the question 'which economics'; 2. Economic imperialism; 3. Law and its methodology; 4. The promises of economic transplants; Part II. Economic Transplants and Legislation: 5. The promises and the legislator; 6. Formal modelling and the problem of predictions; 7. Empirical work and the problem of descriptions; 8. Promises revisited and embracing complexity; Part III. Economic Transplants and Adjudication: 9. Promises and the judiciary; 10. Promises revisited. Conclusion and a different promise.

About the author

Katja Langenbucher holds a full professorship for Private Law, Corporate and Financial Law in Goethe-University's House of Finance and is an affiliated professor at Sciences Po, Paris. She was awarded the Alfred Grosser Chaire, Sciences Po, Paris in 2008–9. She was a Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012–13. Langenbucher was a guest professor at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Universität Wien, Vienna in 2015 and an International Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 2016. She is a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Postbank and a committee member at Alte Leipziger – Hallesche Group.

Summary

Since the financial crisis, corporate or capital markets law has been the focus of attention by academia and media. This book presents a new approach to the risks and benefits of interdisciplinary and policy work for legislators and judges, and will appeal to lawyers and economists working in these areas.

Product details

• Authors: Katja Langenbucher, Katja (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Langenbucher, Katja (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Am Main) Langenbucher, Langenbucher Katja
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107081802
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08180-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation; International Corporate Law an; International Corporate Law an; International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Economics, LAW / Corporate, Corporate Finance, Commercial law, financial law, Legislation, Company law, Capital Markets & Securities Law & Regulation, Company, commercial & competition law, Banking law, Company, commercial and competition law: general