As attention moves rapidly towards comparative approaches, the research and teaching of company law has somehow lagged behind. The overall purpose of this book is therefore to fill a gap in the literature by identifying whether conceptual differences between countries exist. Rather than...

In this Article, we intend to fill a gap in the comparative law literature by adopting a case-based approach to comparative corporate law that highlights the important dimension of specific cases in corporate law matters and how identifiable, but limited issues arising from such case disputes...

A case-based approach to comparative company law / David Cabrelli and Mathias Siems -- General case on directors duties / Theis Klauberg -- Duties of nominee directors / Martin Gelter, Memika Gha and D Gordon Smith -- Obligations of directors in takeovers / Pablo Iglesias-Rodríguez --...

We present evidence on the evolution of labour law in five countries (the UK, USA, Germany, France and India) using a newly-created dataset which measures legal change over time. The results cast light on the claim that legal origin, or the influence of common law and civil law regulatory...