Oxford handbook of corporate law and governance

Table of content

Introduction, Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe
Part l: Theoretical Approaches, Tools, and Methods
1:From Corporate Law to Corporate Governance, Ronald J. Gilson
2:Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Law and Governance, Jeffrey N. Gordon
3:Corporate Governance and Its Political Economy, Mark J. Roe and Massimiliano Vatiero
4:The "Corporate Contract" Today, Michael Klausner
5:The State of State Competition for Incorporations, Marcel Kahan
6:Culture and Law in Corporate Governance, Amir N. Licht
7:A Behavioural Perspective on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, Jaap Winter
8:Empirical Studies in Corporate Law and Governance, Michael Klausner
9:The Benefits and Costs of Indices in Empirical Corporate Governance Research, Allen Ferrell
10:Taxonomies and Leximetrics, Mathias M. Siems
Part II: Substantive Topics
11:External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries, Henry Hansmann and Richard Squire
12:The Board of Directors, Stephen M. Bainbridge
13:Executive Remuneration, Guido Ferrarini and Cristina Ungureanu
14:Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance, Edward Rock
15:Shareholder Activism: A Renaissance, Wolf-Georg Ringe
16:Corporate Short-Termism, Mark J. Roe
17:Majority Control and Minority Protection, Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani
18:Debt and Corporate Governance, Charles K. Whitehead
19:Accounting and Financial Reporting: Global Aspirations, Local Realities, Lawrence A. Cunningham
20:Related Party Transactions, Luca Enriques
21:Control Shifts via Share Acquisition Contracts with Shareholders (Takeovers), Paul Davies
22:Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice, John C. Coates IV
23:Groups of Companies, Klaus J. Hopt
24:Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance, Cynthia A. Williams
25:Comparative Corporate Governance in Closely Held Corporations, Holger Fleischer
Part III: New Challenges in Corporate Governance
26:Western versus Asian Corporate Governance Environments: The Role of Enforcement in International Convergence, Hideki Kanda
27:Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets, Mariana Pargendler
28:The Governance Ecology of China's State-Owned Enterprises, Curtis J. Milhaupt
29:The Rise of Foreign Ownership and Corporate Governance, Merritt B. Fox
30:Governance by Institutional Investors in a Stakeholder World, Gerard Hertig
31:New Metrics for Corporate Governance: Shifting Strategies in an Aging IPO Market, Erik Vermeulen
Part IV: Enforcement
32:Corporate Law and Self-Regulation, David Kershaw
33:The Evolution in the U.S. of Private Enforcement via Litigation and Monitoring Techniques: Are There Lessons for Germany?, James D. Cox and Randall S. Thomas
34:Private and Public Enforcement of Securities Regulation, Howell E. Jackson and Jeffrey Y. Zhang
35:Public Enforcement: Criminal versus Civil, Amanda M. Rose
36:Corporate Litigation in Specialized Business Courts, Joseph A. McCahery and F. Alexander de Roode
37:The Compliance Function: An Overview, Geoffrey Parsons Miller
Part V: Adjacent Areas
38:Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law, Horst Eidenmüller
39:Corporate Governance and Employment Relations, Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin
40:Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, and Securities Law, A.C. Pritchard
41:Vertical and Horizontal Problems in Financial Regulation and Corporate Governance, Jonathan R. Macey and Maureen O'Hara
42:Corporate Governance in Banks, John Armour
43:Tax and Corporate Governance: The Influence of Tax on Managerial Agency Costs, David M. Schizer

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 finances that are interwoven with corporate governance, including insolvency, taxation, and securities law as well as financial regulation.

Now in paperback, 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.