The foundations of Anglo-American corporate fiduciary law /

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 borrow...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Kershaw, David (Professor of law)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxix, 517 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Anmerkungen:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2018).
ISBN:
9781316135891 (ebook)
DOI:
10.1017/9781316135891
Schlagworte:
Directors of corporations > Legal status, laws, etc. > England > History.
Directors of corporations > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Business judgment rule > England > History.
Business judgment rule > United States > History.
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