Series: Contemporary Studies in Corporate Law

Activist Shareholders in Corporate Governance explores the regulatory challenges of public company shareholder activism. Around the world, policymakers, practitioners, and academics debate how best to regulate shareholder activism. Using Australia as a case study, the book examines key issues raised by this debate. With a market structure and legal settings conducive to activism, Australia makes an ideal case study and...

This book provides histories of company law, uniting a variety of approaches from law, business and management, economics, and history. What were the origins of company law? How did it begin? Why did it change? There is no single answer to these questions. Each discipline, and sub-discipline, has a different approach and method that brings different facets of study to...

This book explores the regulatory challenges of public company shareholder activism. Around the world, policymakers, practitioners, and academics debate how best to regulate shareholder activism. Using Australia as a case study, the book examines key issues raised by this debate. With a market structure and legal settings that are conducive to activism, Australia makes an ideal case study and provides...

This book adopts a historical perspective to highlight, and bring back into focus, the key features of the modern company. A central argument in the book is that legal personhood attaching to an entity containing a corporate fund seeded by shareholders is a direct and inevitable consequence of limited liability and the company’s status as a separate legal entity from...