Critical Company Law

Author : Lorraine Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317570839
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Company Law written by Lorraine Talbot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Critical Company Law provides a framework in which to understand how the company functions in society and a thorough grounding in modern legal doctrine. It shows how modern company law is shaped by a multi-layered history of politics, ideology, economics and power. Through the lens of political economic theory the book shows how the company becomes the mechanism through which the state makes political choices about distributing societies’ wealth and through which it responds to economic crises. The current law reflects an economy marked by a disjuncture between the low profits of the productive economy and the high profits of the finance economy. Critical Company Law examines areas of company law to show how they reflect a fragile economy inexorably drawn to social and economic inequality and short-termism. These include: • The Doctrine of Separate Corporate Personality • Groups of Companies and Tort Liabilities • Company Formation and the Constitution • Directors’ Duties and Authority • Corporate Capacity • Shares and Shareholders • Raising and Maintaining Capital • Minority Protection In this uniquely hybrid book the legal topics are treated with detail and clarity, providing an engaging introduction to the key topics required for a student of company law.

Author : Harwell Wells
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784717665
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law written by Harwell Wells and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the corporation means understanding its legal framework, but until recently the origins and evolution of corporate law have received relatively little attention. The topical chapters featured in this Research Handbook, contributed by leading scholars from around the world, examine the historical development of corporation and business organization law in the Americas, Europe, and Asia from the ancient world to modern times, providing an invaluable resource for both further historical research and scholars seeking the origins of present-day issues.

Author : Richard W Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429723792
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Legal Studies written by Richard W Bauman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary legal thought has been powerfully influenced by Critical Legal Studies, a school of legal scholars whose work has sustained a continuing radical critique of established legal doctrines. In this essential reference work, Richard Bauman presents the most thorough, up-to-date guide available for this essential literature. In addition to providing the basic bibliographic information, Bauman offers a set of effective introductions to contextualize and explain the work being surveyed. He has created a fundamental handbook not only for the law but also for politics and radical thought.

Author : John De Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135337977
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reform of UK Company Law written by John De Lacy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the completion of the DTI-sponsored Company Law Review, the reform of company law has now become a very important subject of study. This new book is a must for all those interested in the development and reform of UK company law. The book collates the work of leading authorities on company law, including members of the judiciary and the Law Commission, and individuals from the worlds of professional practice and academia. All main areas of company law are covered, including directors' duties; corporate governance; minority protection; ultra vires; company charges; and human rights and the company, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the work of the Company Law Reform Steering Group. The central purpose of this book is to analyze the current state of play and to note, in particular, the work of the Company Law Review Group. Critical analysis and suggestions on how company law should be reformed are also offered.

Author : Andreas Cahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107186358
Total Pages : 1095 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Company Law written by Andreas Cahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents in-depth, comparative analyses of German, UK and US company laws illustrated by leading cases, with German cases in English translation.

Author : Lorraine Talbot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350440256
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Debates in Company Law written by Lorraine Talbot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly updated new edition of this successful and influential text, it helps students gain a critical understanding of the key debates shaping the field of company law. The new edition has been updated to include many substantial developments in company law, specifically the area of board diversity, corporate social responsibility, shareholder control, director remuneration and human rights.

Author : Emilios Christodoulidis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786438895
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory written by Emilios Christodoulidis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical theory, characteristically linked with the politics of theoretical engagement, covers the manifold of the connections between theory and praxis. This thought-provoking Research Handbook captures the broad range of those connections as far as legal thought is concerned and retains an emphasis both on the politics of theory, and on the notion of theoretical engagement. The first part examines the question of definition and tracks the origins and development of critical legal theory along its European and North American trajectories. The second part looks at the thematic connections between the development of legal theory and other currents of critical thought such as; Feminism, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, varieties of post-modernism, as well as the various ‘turns’ (ethical, aesthetic, political) of critical legal theory. The third and final part explores particular fields of law, addressing the question how the field has been shaped by critical legal theory, or what critical approaches reveal about the field, with the clear focus on opportunities for social transformation.

Author : Eva Micheler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198858876
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Company Law written by Eva Micheler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a real entity theory of company law, in which the company is a legal entity which acts autonomously in law, and company law establishes procedures facilitating autonomous organisational decision-making. The theory builds on the insight that organisations or firms are a social phenomenon outside of the law and that these are autonomous actors in their own right. They are more than the sum of the contributions of their participants and they act independently of the views and interests of their participants. This occurs because human beings change their behaviour when they act as members of a group or an organisation; in a group we tend to develop and conform to a shared standard, and when we act in organisations habits, routines, processes, and procedures form and a culture emerges. These take on a life of their own affecting the behaviour of the participants. Participants can affect organisational behaviour but this takes time and effort. Company law finds this phenomenon and supplies it with a structure supporting autonomous action by organisations. The real entity theory advanced in this book explains company law as it stands at a positive level. Legal personality overcomes the problems that organisations are social rather than brute facts and that there is no unique physical manifestation permanently associated with an organisation. The corporate constitution is not a contract - it is best characterised as an instrument adopted on a statutory basis through private action. Shareholders cannot limit the capacity of companies or the authority of the board to bind the company in contract and companies are liable in tort and crime. The statute creates roles for shareholders, directors, a company secretary, and auditors and so facilitates a process leading to organisational action. The law also integrates the interests of creditors and stakeholders.

Author : Natalie Renée Persadie
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761858091
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality written by Natalie Renée Persadie and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented by the necessary financial and human resources to make the law effective. Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, the achievement of legal advances for women--at either the international or national levels--is particularly difficult where practical measures are not subsequently implemented. This is, perhaps, attributable to a lack of political will. Important issues such as gender equality and domestic violence are not given priority and laws aimed at protecting women and promoting women's rights are ineffective, scant, or unenforced. Gender justice can only be realized through a multilevel approach from above and, more importantly, from below, as women have the potential to effect real national and international legal and institutional change to ensure gender equality at both levels.

Author : Costas Douzinas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134883579
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies written by Costas Douzinas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and assured book provides a unique guide to critical legal studies which is one of the most exciting developments within contemporary jurisprudence. It is the first book to systematically apply a critical philosophy to the substance of common law. The book develops a coruscating and interdisciplinary overview of the politics and cultural significance of the institutions of the law.