finance. In keeping with the policy debate, this paper focuses explicitly on the role of law and lawyers in facilitating … seeks to clarify the links between law and legal institutions and the facilitation of venture capital finance, identifies …

The emergence of an international regime of soft law principles and rules to prohibit money laundering by financial …

perverse outcomes, and that in any event the majority of the contents of codes become akin to hard law, where deviation is not …

Legal origins theory suggests that law reform, strengthening shareholder and creditor rights, should enhance financial … the common law world and in developing countries, but not in the civil law world. We also find evidence of reverse … selective impact of law reform, focusing on the endogeneity of the legal system to its economic context, and on resulting …

. This gives rise to the possibility of coevolution of law and the economy. It will be argued that systems theory, by … developing the idea of law as an adaptive system with cognitive properties, provides a missing link in the evolutionary theory of …

essential ingredient of either company law reform or financial and economic development. The absence of such a market in …

The statutory protection currently provided by UK law to employees during transfers of undertakings and other … factored into the bargaining process so as to enhance the survival chances of enterprises undergoing restructing. the law … conditions are met, employment law performs an economically-valuable role in expressing the interests of employee-stakeholders in …

wider legal system, triggering certain changes in the body of core company law, and assisting the process of adjustment to …