A Social History Of Company Law

Author : Rob McQueen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317186755

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A Social History of Company Law by Rob McQueen Pdf

The history of incorporations legislation and its administration is intimately tied to changes in social beliefs in respect to the role and purpose of the corporation. By studying the evolution of the corporate form in Britain and a number of its colonial possessions, the book illuminates debates on key concepts including the meanings of laissez faire, freedom of commerce, the notion of corporate responsibility and the role of the state in the regulation of business. In doing so, A Social History of Company Law advances our understanding of the shape, effectiveness and deficiencies of modern regulatory regimes, and will be of much interest to a wide circle of scholars.

Author : Rob McQueen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Corporation law
ISBN : 1315565196

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A Social History of Company Law by Rob McQueen Pdf

Author : Harwell Wells
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784717667

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Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law by Harwell Wells Pdf

Understanding the corporation means understanding its legal framework, but until recently the origins and evolution of corporate law have received relatively little attention. The topical chapters featured in this Research Handbook, contributed by leading scholars from around the world, examine the historical development of corporation and business organization law in the Americas, Europe, and Asia from the ancient world to modern times, providing an invaluable resource for both further historical research and scholars seeking the origins of present-day issues.

Author : Rob McQueen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317186762

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A Social History of Company Law by Rob McQueen Pdf

The history of incorporations legislation and its administration is intimately tied to changes in social beliefs in respect to the role and purpose of the corporation. By studying the evolution of the corporate form in Britain and a number of its colonial possessions, the book illuminates debates on key concepts including the meanings of laissez faire, freedom of commerce, the notion of corporate responsibility and the role of the state in the regulation of business. In doing so, A Social History of Company Law advances our understanding of the shape, effectiveness and deficiencies of modern regulatory regimes, and will be of much interest to a wide circle of scholars.

Author : Lorraine Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317570837

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Critical Company Law by Lorraine Talbot Pdf

The second edition of Critical Company Law provides a framework in which to understand how the company functions in society and a thorough grounding in modern legal doctrine. It shows how modern company law is shaped by a multi-layered history of politics, ideology, economics and power. Through the lens of political economic theory the book shows how the company becomes the mechanism through which the state makes political choices about distributing societies’ wealth and through which it responds to economic crises. The current law reflects an economy marked by a disjuncture between the low profits of the productive economy and the high profits of the finance economy. Critical Company Law examines areas of company law to show how they reflect a fragile economy inexorably drawn to social and economic inequality and short-termism. These include: • The Doctrine of Separate Corporate Personality • Groups of Companies and Tort Liabilities • Company Formation and the Constitution • Directors’ Duties and Authority • Corporate Capacity • Shares and Shareholders • Raising and Maintaining Capital • Minority Protection In this uniquely hybrid book the legal topics are treated with detail and clarity, providing an engaging introduction to the key topics required for a student of company law.

Author : Philip Girard,Jim Phillips,R. Blake Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487504632

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A History of Law in Canada, Vol. 1 by Philip Girard,Jim Phillips,R. Blake Brown Pdf

A History of Law in Canada is the first of two volumes. Volume one begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, while volume two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada - the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.

Author : Susan Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Corporation law
ISBN : 1509923659

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The Making of the Modern Company by Susan Watson Pdf

"This book adopts a historical perspective to highlight, and bring back into focus, the key features of the modern company. A central argument in the book is that legal personhood attaching to an entity containing a corporate fund seeded by shareholders is a direct and inevitable consequence of limited liability and the company's status as a separate legal entity from its shareholders. Management by a board subject to legal duties to the company as an entity that can exist in perpetuity facilitates a long term perspective by the board that can accommodate both shareholder and stakeholder interests. These defining characteristics differentiate the modern company from other business forms. The Making of the Modern Company applies a 21st-century lens to the corporation through its history to identify turning points in its development. It sets out how key features emerged in the course of two separate developmental cycles in English corporate law: first with the English East India Company in the 17th century, and then with general incorporation statutes in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The book's historical perspective highlights that the key features are part of the 'secret sauce' of modern companies. Each cycle coincided with unparalleled periods of economic success associated with corporate activity This book will be of interest to corporate law and governance academics, theorists and practitioners, those who study the company from related disciplines, and anyone who questions why uncertainty still exists about the structure of a legal form that has been described as 'amongst mankind's greatest inventions'."--

Author : Ronald Ralph Formoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Corporation law
ISBN : UOM:35112203480985

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The Historical Foundations of Modern Company Law by Ronald Ralph Formoy Pdf

Author : Markus D. Dubber,Christopher Tomlins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192513137

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The Oxford Handbook of Legal History by Markus D. Dubber,Christopher Tomlins Pdf

Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become increasingly international and comparative in scope and orientation. Drawing on scholarship from around the world, and representing a variety of methodological approaches, areas of expertise, and research agendas, this timely compendium takes stock of legal history and methodology and reflects on the various modes of the historical analysis of law, past, present, and future. Part I explores the relationship between legal history and other disciplinary perspectives including economic, philosophical, comparative, literary, and rhetorical analysis of law. Part II considers various approaches to legal history, including legal history as doctrinal, intellectual, or social history. Part III focuses on the interrelation between legal history and jurisprudence by investigating the role and conception of historical inquiry in various models, schools, and movements of legal thought. Part IV traces the place and pursuit of historical analysis in various legal systems and traditions across time, cultures, and space. Finally, Part V narrows the Handbooks focus to explore several examples of legal history in action, including its use in various legal doctrinal contexts.

Author : H. J. Glasbeek
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781896357416

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Wealth by Stealth by H. J. Glasbeek Pdf

How is it that corporations are able to behave irresponsibly, criminally, and undemocratically? "Wealth by Stealth" is a scathing introduction to the operations of the modern corporation, written by a corporate lawyer. Many writers point to the growth of undemocratic corporate power. Glasbeek takes these observations further and outlines clearly how corporations become so powerful. He also shows how they are able to act without regard to the behaviour and laws governing citizens and other groups. Glasbeek is known by generations of students for his brilliant, funny lectures at Osgoode Hall Law School. With "Wealth by Stealth" his informative critique of corporate behaviour becomes available and accessible to all. How is it "The corporation makes them do it"?

Author : Nadia Bernaz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317233855

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Business and Human Rights by Nadia Bernaz Pdf

Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of business – companies and businesspeople – in the human rights area, or, to phrase it differently, to bridge the accountability gap. Bridging the accountability gap is to be understood as both setting standards and holding corporations and businesspeople to account if violations occur. Adopting a legal perspective, this book presents the ways in which this dual undertaking has been and could be further carried out in the future, and evaluates the extent to which the various initiatives in the field bridge the corporate accountability gap. It looks at the historical background of the field of business and human rights, and examines salient periods, events and cases. The book then goes on to explore the relevance of international human rights law and international criminal law for global business. International soft law and policy initiatives which have blossomed in recent years are evaluated along with private modes of regulation. The book also examines how domestic law, especially the domestic law of multinational companies’ home countries, can be used to prevent and redress corporate related human rights violations.

Author : Arthur Kline Kuhn
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295727102

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A Comparative Study of the Law of Corporations by Arthur Kline Kuhn Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ A Comparative Study Of The Law Of Corporations: With Particular Reference To The Protection Of Creditors And Shareholders; Studies In History, Economics And Public Law; Columbia University; Issue 123 Of Columbia Studies In The Social Sciences; Volume 123 Of Harvard Pre-1920 Social History/business Preservation Microfilm Project Arthur Kline Kuhn Columbia University, 1912 Corporation law; Corporations; Stockholders

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443075

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Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making by Anonim Pdf

Colonial Adventures:Commercial Law and Practice in the Making proposes a lung run exploration of the influence of colonisation and overseas trade on commercial law and the adaptation of transplanted law to colonial constraints in a comparative perspective.

Author : Eva Micheler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198858874

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Company Law by Eva Micheler Pdf

This book advances a real entity theory of company law, in which the company is a legal entity which acts autonomously in law, and company law establishes procedures facilitating autonomous organisational decision-making. The theory builds on the insight that organisations or firms are a social phenomenon outside of the law and that these are autonomous actors in their own right. They are more than the sum of the contributions of their participants and they act independently of the views and interests of their participants. This occurs because human beings change their behaviour when they act as members of a group or an organisation; in a group we tend to develop and conform to a shared standard, and when we act in organisations habits, routines, processes, and procedures form and a culture emerges. These take on a life of their own affecting the behaviour of the participants. Participants can affect organisational behaviour but this takes time and effort. Company law finds this phenomenon and supplies it with a structure supporting autonomous action by organisations. The real entity theory advanced in this book explains company law as it stands at a positive level. Legal personality overcomes the problems that organisations are social rather than brute facts and that there is no unique physical manifestation permanently associated with an organisation. The corporate constitution is not a contract - it is best characterised as an instrument adopted on a statutory basis through private action. Shareholders cannot limit the capacity of companies or the authority of the board to bind the company in contract and companies are liable in tort and crime. The statute creates roles for shareholders, directors, a company secretary, and auditors and so facilitates a process leading to organisational action. The law also integrates the interests of creditors and stakeholders.

Author : Lorraine Talbot,Andreas Kokkinis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781350440258

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Great Debates in Company Law by Lorraine Talbot,Andreas Kokkinis Pdf

A thoroughly updated new edition of this successful and influential text, it helps students gain a critical understanding of the key debates shaping the field of company law. The new edition has been updated to include many substantial developments in company law, specifically the area of board diversity, corporate social responsibility, shareholder control, director remuneration and human rights.