| Author | : David Kershaw |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 549 |
| Release | : 2018-08-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107092337 |
Explores the foundations and evolution of corporate fiduciary law in the United States and the United Kingdom.
| Author | : Evan J. Criddle |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1028 |
| Release | : 2019-04-29 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0190634111 |
The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law provides a comprehensive overview of critical topics in fiduciary law and theory through chapters authored by leading scholars. The Handbook opens with surveys of the many fields of law in which fiduciary duties arise, including agency law, trust law, corporate law, pension law, bankruptcy law, family law, employment law, legal representation, health care, and international law. Drawing on these surveys, the Handbook offers a synthetic analysis of fiduciary law's key concepts and principles. Chapters in the Handbook explore the defining features of fiduciary relationships, clarify the distinctive fiduciary duties that arise in these relationships, and identify the remedies available for breach of fiduciary duties. The volume also provides numerous comparative perspectives on fiduciary law from eminent legal historians and from scholars with deep expertise in a diverse array of the world's legal systems. Finally, the Handbook lays the groundwork for future research on fiduciary law and theory by highlighting cross-cutting themes, identifying persistent theoretical and practical challenges, and exploring how the field could be enriched through empirical analysis and interdisciplinary insights from economics, philosophy, and psychology. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law represents an invaluable resource for practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and students in this essential field of law.
| Author | : Seth Davis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2024-02-08 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1009310305 |
This book assesses the conceptualization and legal response to the social problem of abuse of fiduciary authority in transnational context.
| Author | : Paul S Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2024-08-08 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1509970770 |
This book focuses on contemporary problems related to fraud and risk in commercial law. It has been said by some that we are in a 'golden age of fraud'. In part this has been caused by globalisation, technological changes and the financialisation of business. This has resulted in the creation of automated linkages with integrated supply chains and the creation of systemic risks, which have been exacerbated by new forms of intangible assets like tokens and their ease of movement. While regulation has ebbed and flowed given the desire of governments to generate economic growth, as well as the distrust of their coercive powers, the courts have sought to strike a balance between considerations such as commercial certainty and fairness. The book provides an analysis of key contemporary issues on the theme of fraud and risk in commercial law, including: technology and fraud, secondary liability and 'failure to prevent' economic crime, abuse of business entities, insolvency and creditor protection, injunctions and other orders, cross-border issues, the relationship between regulation and private law, and solutions for policy makers.
| Author | : Oonagh E. Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1928096948 |
The contributors to Corporate Citizen explore the legal frameworks and standards of conduct for multinational corporations. In a globalized world governed by domestic and international law, these corporations can be everywhere and nowhere at once, reaping financial benefits and enjoying the protections of investor-state arbitration but rarely being held accountable for the economic, environmental, and human rights harms they may have caused. Given the far-reaching power and success of the transnational corporation, and the many legal tools allowing these companies to avoid liability, how can governments protect their citizens? Broad-ranging in perspective, colourful and thought-provoking, the chapters in Corporate Citizen make the case that because the success of corporate global citizenship risks undermining national and international democratic governance, the multinational corporation must be more closely scrutinized and controlled – in the service of humanity and the protection of the natural environment.
| Author | : Afra Afsharipour |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2021-06-25 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1788975332 |
This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.
| Author | : Janet Dine |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2000-06-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 052166070X |
Starting from a discussion of the theoretical underpinning of the place companies occupy in society, this book explores the consequences of adherence to free market contractualist theory, including the lack of regulatory control of a sufficiently robust nature. Professor Dine comments on the absence of a concept of governance of groups from a comparative perspective and considers the consequences of this absence for the conflict of laws. In particular, she highlights the tragic consequences of globalization by transnationals including polarization of income and environmental damage, and suggests a possible legal framework to prevent future damages.
| Author | : Tamar Frankel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 019539156X |
In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping. She deals with fiduciaries in general, and identifies situations in which fiduciary law falls short of offering protection. Frankel analyzes fiduciary debates, and argues that greater preventive measures are required. She offers guidelines for determining the boundaries and substance of fiduciary law, and discusses how failure to enforce fiduciary law can contribute to failing financial and economic systems. Frankel offers ideas and explanations for the courts, regulators, and legislatures, as well as the fiduciaries and entrustors. She argues for strong legal protection against abuse of entrustment as a means of encouraging fiduciary services in society. Fiduciary Law can help lawyers and policy makers designing the future law and the systems that it protects.
| Author | : Klaus J. Hopt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-04-22 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1139486640 |
The economic importance of the non-profit sector is growing rapidly in the USA and Europe. However, the law has not kept abreast with its development. The European Court of Justice has extended certain freedoms of the EC Treaty to non-profit organisations, and more case law is expected to follow in the near future, but the observations, theories, solutions and legal and non-legal rules in this field are manifold. The chances of harmonising the law on a European level are slim. Despite these differences, a common core of international corporate governance problems and regulatory solutions can be seen. This volume of essays brings together a variety of international experts from both corporate governance and governance of non-profit organisations to compare the two areas and explore the lessons that can be learned regarding comparative corporate governance for non-profit organisations.
