This collection consists of 21 moot court problems drafted and used since 2005 either for selection rounds in an Indian law school or for national moot court competitions. The subject matter of the these moot court problems relates to corporate and commercial laws in India, but usually with a...

Pothers about liability risks for company directors and officers are nothing new in corporate law. The global financial crisis, however, created a unique and unfamiliar commercial matrix in which such concerns were played out. Although Australia fared better than many jurisdictions during the...

Dozens of judicial opinions have held that shareholders own corporations, that directors are agents of shareholders, and even that directors are trustees of shareholders' property. Yet, until now, it has never been proven. These doctrines rest on unsubstantiated assumptions. In this book the...

Artificial Intelligence (hereafter: AI) is transforming our everyday life in many important respects. The corporate realm is no exception. Many corporations cannot avoid facing the variety of issues raised by the increasing importance that AI plays within firms. Can an AI-based system be...

I study the origins of the market for corporate charters and the emergence of Delaware as the leader of this market. Specifically, I assemble new data on 19th and 20th-century corporations to evaluate two widely-held beliefs: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court is responsible for enabling a national...

A popular research design identifies the effects of corporate governance by (changes in) state laws, clustering standard errors by state of incorporation. Using Monte-Carlo simulations, this paper shows that conventional statistical tests based on these standard errors dramatically overreject:...

This article provides an overview and analysis of the most important company law decisions in Singapore in 2018. More specifically, the article considers the developments in the following areas of Singapore company law: separate legal personality and veil-piercing, appointment of directors,...

Canadian corporate law belongs within a broader Anglo-American legal tradition, sharing many of the features of other common law jurisdictions, most notably England and the United States. Prior to Confederation, Canadian corporate law first emerged from nineteenth-century English legislation and...

Fiduciary duties in corporate law are pervasive, but courts tend to be very deferential to directors. Courts are right to be reluctant to make substantive business decisions, but they would be wrong to refuse to decide cases when the circumstances require. In this address, I offer two proposals...