Concurring Opinions ? Amazing New Corporate Law & Econ Book

posted by Lawrence Cunningham

If you are interested in corporate law, especially economic analysis of it, you?likely will enjoy an impressive new book collecting original pieces by 30 prominent corporate law scholars. Edited by Claire Hill and Brett McDonnell of the University of Minnesota, the book canvases every important topic in corporate law.

After an overview that traces the history of the economic analysis of corporate law, the book addresses corporate constituencies, governance, gatekeepers, government?oversight and a few other hot topics not classified.

Within constituencies, topics consider the directors? role, the roles of other corporate actors, including shareholders, creditors, employees, and other stakeholders along with broader notions of the public interest.?

Internal governance looks at fiduciary duties, shareholder litigation, outside directors, shareholder activism and executive compensation.??

Gatekeeper pieces address lawyers and auditors, as well as rating agencies,? research analysts, D&O insurers and investment banks.

Jurisdiction looks at both domestic federalism as well as comparative perspective.

Unclassified topics address self-dealing, behavioral economics, and market efficiency.

The scholars are?the following professors:

Ahdieh,???Atanasov, Bainbridge, Black, Blair, Bodie,? Ciccotello,? Clarke, Cunningham, Darbellay, Davidoff, Fairfax,? Ferri, Fisch,? Frankel,?Gilson, Griffith,?Hill,?Kraakman, Langevoort,?Lee, McDonnell, Painter,?Partnoy, Smith,? Thomas,? Thompson, Walker, and Whitehead.??

The table of contents to this impressive volume follows. Get it while it?s hot!!

PART I: CORPORATE CONSTITUENCIES

2. Director Primacy

Stephen M. Bainbridge

3. Corporate Law and the Team Production Problem

Margaret M. Blair

4. The Role of Shareholders in the Modern American Corporation

D. Gordon Smith

5. Creditors and Debt Governance

Charles K. Whitehead

6. Employees and the Boundaries of the Corporation

Matthew T. Bodie

7. The Role of the Public Interest in Corporate Law

Ian B. Lee

PART II: INSIDER GOVERNANCE

8. Fiduciary Duties: The Emerging Jurisprudence

Claire A. Hill and Brett H. McDonnell

9. Empirical Studies of Representative Litigation

Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson

10. The Elusive Quest for Director Independence

Lisa M. Fairfax

11. ?Low-Cost? Shareholder Activism: A Review of the Evidence

Fabrizio Ferri

12. Takeover Theory and the Law and Economics Movement

Steven M. Davidoff

13. The Law and Economics of Executive Compensation: Theory and Evidence

David I. Walker

PART III: GATEKEEPERS

14. Transaction Cost Engineers, Loophole Engineers or Gatekeepers: The Role of Business Lawyers After the Financial Meltdown

Richard W. Painter

15. Credit Rating Agencies and Regulatory Reform

Aline Darbellay and Frank Partnoy

16. The Influence of Law and Economics on Law and Accounting: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Lawrence A. Cunningham

17. The Role and Regulation of the Research Analyst

Jill E. Fisch

18. D&O Insurance and the Ability of Shareholder Litigation to Deter

Sean J. Griffith

19. The Influence of Investment Banks on Corporate Governance

Tamar Frankel

PART IV: JURISDICTION

20. Varieties of Corporate Law-Making: Competition, Preemption, and Federalism

Robert B. Ahdieh

21. The Past and Future of Comparative Corporate Governance

Donald C. Clarke

PART V: NEW THEORY

22. Self-Dealing by Corporate Insiders: Legal Constraints and Loopholes

Vladimir Atanasov, Bernard Black and Conrad S. Ciccotello

23. Behavioral Approaches to Corporate Law

Donald C. Langevoort

24. Market Efficiency After the Fall: Where Do We Stand Following the Financial Crisis?

Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman

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?August 30, 2012 at 5:02 pm ? Posted?in:?Book Reviews, Corporate Finance, Corporate Law ???Print This Post

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