The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-09233-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 935 g

Reihe: International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation

This book explores the foundations and evolution of modern corporate fiduciary law in the United States and the United Kingdom. Today US and UK fiduciary law provide very different approaches to the regulation of directorial behaviour. However, as the book shows, the law in both jurisdictions borrowed from the same sources in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English fiduciary and commercial law. The book identifies the shared legal foundations and authorities and explores the drivers of corporate fiduciary law's contemporary divergence. In so doing it challenges the prevailing accounts of corporate legal change and stability in the US and the UK.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kershaw, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht Handelsrecht, HGB, Handelsvertreter- und -maklerrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht Allgemeines und Gesamtdarstellungen (Gesellschaftsrecht)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Unternehmensfinanzierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: corporate legal ideas; Part I. Business Judgment and the Idea of Honesty in the Exercise of Delegated Power: 1. Business judgments: origins; 2. Business judgments in UK corporate law; 3. The foundations of the business judgement rule in the United States; 4. The structural dissonance of Delaware's business judgment rule; Part II. The Duty of Care and the Ideas of Reward and Undertaking: 5. Origins: between laxity and terror in bailment and trusts law; 6. The origins of the director's duty of care in the United States; 7. The Delaware duty of care: fragments of jurisprudence; 8. The duty of care in the United Kingdom: in the shadow of gross negligence; Part III. Self-Dealing and the Idea of the Corporation: 9. Conceptions of the corporation; 10. The United Kingdom: contracting out of the common law; 11. The United States: the paths to fairness review; Part IV. Connected Assets and the Idea of Property: 12. Connected assets law in the United Kingdom: the property institution; 13. The modern UK approach and the disappearance of property; 14. Connected assets law in the United States: between property and prescription; 15. Explaining divergent evolution in connected assets law.

Über Autor(innen)

Kershaw, David
David Kershaw is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds an LL.B. from the University of Warwick, and an LL.M. and an SJ.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to entering academic life he practiced corporate law in both London and New York. He is the author of multiple articles on corporate law, takeover law and accounting and audit regulation. His is the author of Company Law in Context (2012) and the Principles of Takeover Regulation (2016).