This Article describes firms' current choice between the corporate and uncorporate governance forms. This choice depends on firms' demand for flexibility, the effectiveness in particular situations of corporate-type monitoring, and the suitability of uncorporate mechanisms of controlling agency...

More and more companies appear with strange abbreviations behind their business name. Consider Chrysler Group LLC (instead of Inc.) or LVMH Montres & Joaillerie France SAS. Some even speak about the “endangered corporate form” and point to the rise of the uncorporation. This Primer examines...

More and more companies appear with strange abbreviations behind their business name. Consider Chrysler Group LLC (instead of Inc.) or LVMH Montres & Joaillerie France SAS. Some even speak about the 'endangered corporate form' and point to the rise of the uncorporation. This Primer examines how...

The analysis of business associations largely has been limited to corporations. Yet unincorporated firms, including general and limited partnerships and limited liability companies, comprise about a third of the firms in the US, and even larger percentages elsewhere in the world. The Rise of the...

This Article examines whether recent shifts among private and public markets are part of a more general phenomenon of “shapeshifting” among corporate entities. A shapeshift is a transformation of corporate form involving the creation or use of a new legal entity and one or more changes in...

This chapter, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law, situates corporations and corporate law theory within the nascent New Private Law movement. Most theorists allied to the New Private Law focus on fundamental private law and so, in turn, bodies of law addressed to singular...

This article shows how in-house lawyers' role has evolved to address the high cost of legal services and the traditional information asymmetry between lawyers and clients. The first stage of this evolution involved the expanding role of in-house counsel from intermediary between corporate...

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert anhand von Musterunternehmen in den Branchen Verarbeitendes Gewerbe, (bürobasierte) Dienstleistungen, Einzelhandel sowie Gastronomie die regionalen Belastungsunterschiede von Unternehmen in den Kommunen des Kammerbezirkes der IHK zu Leipzig. Hierbei wird...

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert anhand von Musterunternehmen in den Branchen Verarbeitendes Gewerbe, (bürobasierte) Dienstleistungen, Einzelhandel sowie Gastronomie die regionalen Belastungsunterschiede von Unternehmen in den Kommunen des Kammerbezirkes der IHK zu Leipzig. Hierbei wird...