Metapolitics and Corporate Law Reform

Metapolitics and Corporate Law Reform

Corporate Law and Governance

This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of corporate law and governance, discusses the main legal and regulatory institutions in different countries, and examines the comparative governance literature. Corporate governance is concerned with the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate claimholders and the resolution of collecti...

Euthanasia and law reform.

In 1983, the Law Reform Commission of Canada published its Report on Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide and Cessation of Treatment,1 following its Working Paper2 and Study Paper3 in the Protection of Life series. The Report is interesting more for its approach than for its recommendations. A close examination of it reveals some fascinating parallels between what I have called "legal law reform", 4 whic...

Default Rules , Wealth Distribution , and Corporate Law Reform : Employment at Will versus Job Security

In recent years, a number of commentators have criticized corporate law's traditional commitment to shareholder primacy because of the costs it imposes on nonshareholder corporate constituencies. The phrase "shareholder primacy" refers to management's legal duty to pursue shareholder wealth maximization without regard for competing considerations. Despite the jarring social effects of the hosti...

Labor Law and Its Reform