Search results for "Corporate law"

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Companies and Company Law in England, 16th to 19th Centuries: Legal Personality, Limited Liability and Pink Unicorns

2020

the contribution explores the early developments of company law in England, from the Sixteenth century onwards, focusing especially on the emergence of the concepts of legal personality and limited liability

Limited liabilityLawmedia_common.quotation_subjectcompany law legal personality limited liabilityCorporate lawPersonalityBusinessmedia_common
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Corporate Governance and Company Law Reform: a German perspective

2005

Corporate crises and international trends in corporate governance have revealed the need for reform, and resulted in a great number of changes in corporate law. In spite of this, the existing legal framework for corporate governance in Germany presents itself reluctant to major changes. The German approach to reform has focused on the improvement of corporate monitoring by the supervisory board. It neither questions the two-tier structure, nor does it reconsider the existing representation of shareholders or other stakeholders under the current form of co-determination. The German Corporate Governance Code represents a new instrument of soft law and its recommendations are likely argued to …

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