A Research Agenda for Corporate Law

A Research Agenda for Corporate Law

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This timely Research Agenda explores key dynamics and cutting-edge developments within corporate law. Bringing together a diverse range of scholars hailing from different jurisdictions, ideological perspectives, and methodological backgrounds, it provides a roadmap for future research in the field.

Through the investigation of different doctrinal and normative issues, leading scholars consider how evolving conceptual foundations, capital markets, social and cultural contexts, and technologies may impact corporate law and governance research. Ground-breaking contributions examine the increasingly global nature of corporate production and investment markets and the influence this has on the wider dynamics in the fields, suggesting new directions for navigating this complex and fascinating terrain.

Students and scholars of corporate law, corporate governance, and law and business will value the innovative ideas unpacked in this state-of-the-art Research Agenda. Its forward looking and practical insights will also benefit practitioners and policymakers in corporate law, corporate governance, sustainability, business law, and economics.

Table of Contents

Contents:

1 Formulating a research agenda for corporate law 1
Christopher M. Bruner and Marc Moore

PART I EVOLVING CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
2 Atomising corporate law: a battle cry for splitters 15
Jonny Hardman
3 Corporate law coasting in neutral: from
egalitarianism, to sustainability, to extinction? 35
Michael Galanis
4 Integrating sustainability into corporate governance 57
Andrew Johnston

PART II EVOLVING CAPITAL MARKETS
5 Dual fiduciaries: unicorns, corporate law and the
new frontier 83
Anat Alon-Beck
6 The governance of entrepreneurship 101
Ofer Eldar
7 Sustainable finance and the public turn in corporate law 121
Virginia Harper Ho

PART III EVOLVING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS
8 An anti-racist feminist agenda for sustainable
corporate law 143
Carol Liao
9 Diversity and ESG: implications for M&A 163
Afra Afsharipour

PART IV EVOLVING TECHNOLOGIES
10 Decentralised finance, decentralised organisations
and the future of the firm 187
Ann Sofie Cloots
11 Harnessing the collective power of retail investors 207
Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and Christina M. Sautter

PART V EVOLVING GLOBAL DYNAMICS
12 Global corporate charter competition 231
William J. Moon
13 The symbiosis between corporate governance and
international law 251
Kish Parella

PART VI CONCLUSIONS
14 Corporate law in changing times 273
Marc Moore and Christopher M. Bruner

Index 279

ISBN

978 1 80088 043 6

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

Edward Elgar

City

Cheltenham, UK

Keywords

corporate law, decentralized finance, sustainability, international law, fiduciaries, corporate governance

Disciplines

Business Organizations Law

A Research Agenda for Corporate Law

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