Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law /
Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law /
[edited by] Harwell Wells.
- pages cm
- Research handbooks in corporate law and governance series .
Table of contents Contents:
Introduction Harwell Wells
Part I Taking Shape 1. Islamic Law and Economic Development Jared Rubin
2. Business Organizations in India Prior to the British East India Company Vikramaditya Khanna
3. Business Organization and Organizational Innovation in Late Medieval Italy Yadira Gonzalez de Lara
4. Trading with Strangers: The Corporate Form in the Move from Municipal Governance to Overseas Trade Ron Harris
Part II Modern Europe 5. The Development of English Company Law before 1900 John D. Turner
6. Shareholder Primacy, Labour, and the Historic Ambivalence of UK Company Law Marc T. Moore
7. German Company Law 1794-1897 Timothy W. Guinnane
8. German Corporate Law in the 20th Century Thilo Kuntz
9. Change for Continuity: The Making of the Societe Anonyme in nineteenth Century France Jean Rochat
10. Classes of Shares and Voting Rights in the History of Italian Corporate Law Giulio Sandrelli and Marco Ventoruzzo
11. A History of the Corporation in Spain in the Twentieth Century: Towards Europe Susana Martinez-Rodriguez
12. EU Company Law Harmonization Between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism Martin Gelter
Part III Asia 13. Corporation Law in Late Imperial China Teemu Ruskola
14. The Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Law: A Historical Perspective from India Umakanth Varottil
15. Japanese Corporate Law and Corporate Governance in Historical Perspective Bruce Aronson
Part IV North America 16. The Evolution of Mexican Mercantile and Corporate Laws Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato and Gustavo A. Del Angel
17. A History of Canadian Corporate Law: A Divergent Path from the American Model? Fenner L. Stewart
18. For- and Non-profit Special Corporations in America, 1608-1860 Robert E. Wright
19. Legitimating Power: A Brief History of Modern U.S. Corporate Law Dalia T. Mitchell
20. Adolf Berle, E. Merrick Dodd and the New American Corporatism of 1932 William W. Bratton and Michael L. Wachter
21. Corporate Law and the History of Corporate Social Responsibility Lyman Johnson
22. Evolutionary Models of Corporate Law Amitai Aviram