The consequences of the Brexit vote will be felt throughout the legal systems, both in the UK and in the EU. The legal consequences of the Brexit decision and the process which will lead to the withdrawal of the UK, raises numerous questions many of which are in the process of being analysed,...

This chapter examines and challenges the dominant academic portrayal of Anglo-American corporate law as an aspect of private law, and argues for a re-characterisation of the subject that reflects the centrality of public regulation to its core dynamics. It first explores the purported...

This paper review empirical studies examining the economic effects of laws governing the formation, financing and organisation of business firms with the aim of putting the UK experience in a comparative perspective. The literature identifies two models of legal support for manufacturing which...

Most directors and senior managers of UK companies would likely regard it as trite law that, in undertaking their managerial and/or control functions, they are accountable first and foremost to their employer firm's general body of shareholders. It follows that the interests of other corporate...