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The Company and its Constituents

28 July 2023

Susan Watson

Rethinking Commercial Law’s Uncertain Boundaries

30 March 2023

Steven L. Schwarcz

LSE Conference on ‘An Institutional Theory of the Firm’

For some time the nexus of contract model of the firm and agency theory have operated as the dominant theoretical approach in law, economics and other social sciences. Following the...

30 May 2022

Eva Micheler

David Gindis

Corporate Human Rights?

Human rights are human rights. Granting them not only to human beings but also to corporations seems like a perversion—not only because corporations have neither body nor soul but also because corporations...

22 December 2020

Andreas Kulick

Corporations, Directors’ Duties and the Public/Private Divide

Business history and theory reflect a tension between public and private conceptions of the corporation. This tension and conceptual ambiguity lay close to the surface of The Modern Corporation and...

3 November 2020

Jennifer Hill

Ernst Freund as Precursor of the Rational Study of Corporate Law

It is now widely recognized that legal entity status fulfills important economic functions by separating a firm’s business assets and the personal assets of its founders, directors, or shareholders, and...

22 October 2020

David Gindis

A Systems Theory of Compliance Law

Compliance law and practice have taken a priority among business people and academics who study corporations. Companies face heightened regulation and scrutiny from a host of federal and state regulators...

14 November 2019

David Orozco

The Problem of Algorithmic Corporate Misconduct

Technology will soon force broad changes in how we conceive of corporate liability. The law’s doctrines for evaluating corporate misconduct date from a time when human beings ran corporations. Today,...

23 September 2019

Mihailis E. Diamantis

What Is the Domain of Corporate Law? Legal, Cultural, Market, and Historical Contexts

Judges, legislators, corporate practitioners, and scholars of business law all conduct their work based on some working conception of what “corporate law” is. Strangely, however, the question of what this...

28 January 2019

Christopher M. Bruner

Two Decades of Law & Finance: What Concept of Law (if any)?

In 2017, the so-called Law and Finance School (‘LFS’) will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Starting with Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrey Shleifer, and Robert Vishny’s two seminal articles from...

21 November 2016

Gerhard Schnyder

The Company and its Constituents

Rethinking Commercial Law’s Uncertain Boundaries

LSE Conference on ‘An Institutional Theory of the Firm’

Corporate Human Rights?

Corporations, Directors’ Duties and the Public/Private Divide

Ernst Freund as Precursor of the Rational Study of Corporate Law

A Systems Theory of Compliance Law

The Problem of Algorithmic Corporate Misconduct

What Is the Domain of Corporate Law? Legal, Cultural, Market, and Historical Contexts

Two Decades of Law & Finance: What Concept of Law (if any)?

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