‘Shareholder rights' are the legal entitlements of shareholders via-a-vis companies in which they invest. A large body of research has sought to investigate how shareholder rights foster accountability of controllers. The concern has been that without accountability, managers and dominant...

This paper contains the tables of contents, legislation and cases, the introduction and the index of a book published by Cambridge University Press (2008). The cover text reads as follows: "On the one hand, it can be argued that the increasing economic and political interdependence of countries...

Crowdfunding, a new Internet-based securities market, was recently authorized by federal and state law in order to create a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive system of entrepreneurial finance. But will people really send their money to strangers on the Internet in exchange for unregistered...

The dominant theory in Anglo-American jurisdictions as far as determining the objective of large public companies, has been, and still appears to be, the shareholder primacy theory. Nevertheless, it would seem that in the past 20 years the stakeholder theory has become increasingly popular in...

The purpose of this Article is to provide the reader with a detailed analysis of the existing regulations on shareholders' rights, recently updated by the Shareholders' Rights Directive II, as well as in light of the U.S. regulation on the topic. The paper aims to adequately address and explore...