Subjects:

Company Law

Contents:

The bootmaker's legacy to company law doctrine, Ross Grantham and Charles Rickett

corporate personality - limited recourse and its limits, David Goddard

commentary on Goddard, Ross Grantham

corporate groups, Robert P. Austin

commentary on Austin, Andrew Borrowdale

corporate personality, limited liability and the protection of creditors, Dan Prentice

commentary on Prentice, Thomas G.W. Telfer

company law and regulatory complexity, Joanna Gray

commentary on Gray, Bernard Robertson

changes in the role of the shareholder, Jennifer Hill

commentary on Hill, Robert P. Austin

models of corporate regulation - the mandatory/enabling debate, Ian M. Ramsay

commentary on Ramsay, Tim Hazledine

financial transparency and corporate governance - the United States as a model, Louis Lowenstein.

This text reviews developments in company law, ranging across the modern approaches to the subject and seeking to place key aspects in a theoretical and historical perspective. It also reveals the issues that lie behind the day-to-day technicalities of company law.