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Zusatztext this volume is a treasure trove for anyone with an interest in corporate law and governance, and it is not possible in a short review to do justice to the many excellent contributions within it. ... academics and students working in the area will find it particularly useful as a module resource ... Equally, practitioners will value the comprehensive picture which is painted and they will learn much from the comparative material indicating how other jurisdictions manage similar problems. All readers will enjoy these interesting and challenging chapters about the regulation of companies and their role in modern capitalism. The editors are to be congratulated on their outstanding efforts in producing such a compelling volume. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Gordon is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia Law School. He is also the Co-Director of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, and the Co-Director for the Center for Law and Economic Studies. His main areas of interest are in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, comparative corporate governance, and the regulation of financial institutions. Wolf-Georg Ringe is a Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg. He also teaches on the faculty of law at the University of Oxford, is a research fellow at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law and an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He is the general editor of the new Journal of Financial Regulation, published by Oxford University Press since 2015. Georg Ringe teaches various courses in the field of corporate and business law, and his current research interests are in the general area of law and finance, comparative corporate governance, capital and financial markets, insolvency law, and conflict of laws. Klappentext Corporate law and governance are at the forefront of regulatory activities worldwide, and subject to increasing public attention in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Comprehensively referencing the key debates, the Handbook provides a much-needed framework for understanding the aims and methods of legal research in the field. Zusammenfassung Corporate law and governance are at the forefront of regulatory activities worldwide, and subject to increasing public attention in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Comprehensively referencing the key debates, the Handbook provides a much-needed framework for understanding the aims and methods of legal research in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part l: Theoretical Approaches, Tools, and Methods 1: Ronald J. Gilson: From Corporate Law to Corporate Governance 2: Jeffrey N. Gordon: Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law and Governance 3: Mark J. Roe and Massimiliano Vatiero: Corporate Governance and Its Political Economy 4: Michael Klausner: The "Corporate Contract" Today 5: Marcel Kahan: The State of State Competition for Incorporations 6: Amir N. Licht: Culture and Law in Corporate Governance 7: Jaap Winter: A Behavioural Perspective on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance 8: Michael Klausner: Empirical Studies in Corporate Law and Governance 9: Allen Ferrell: The Benefits and Costs of Indices in Empirical Corporate Governance Research 10: Mathias M. Siems: Taxonomies and Leximetrics Part II: Substantive Topics 11: Henry Hansmann and Richard Squire: External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries 12: Stephen M. Bainbridge: The Board of Directors 13: Guido Ferrarini and Cristina Ungureanu: Executive Remuneration 14: Edward Rock: Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance 15: Wolf-Georg Ringe: Shareholder Activism: A Renaissance 16: Mark J. Roe: Corporate S...
