Voting rights are a shareholder's main legal channel to exercise control internally over the company in which she invests her savings. Under the corporate law of the US states, a shareholder is someone registered on the stockholders' list, not a person who has title to shares. When in the 1970s...

This is a contribution to a conference volume for the 2010 National University of Singapore Symposium on “Law and Development in China - The Legal Dimension of China's Development Model.” The paper aims to shed some light on the way forward for the Chinese securities markets. It examines the...