It is trite law that a director is a fiduciary to his or her company and must act in the interests of the company. However, identifying the “interests of the company” is not so straightforward. Different theories of the nature of the company and different stakeholders interested in the...

Examinations of public company board composition have focused on the absence of women but rarely on the absence of visible minorities. Given an increasingly diverse domestic population and increased participation of second-generation immigrants in the professional cadre, we think that board...

In the year 2016, the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg) implemented reforms which have brought a number of changes in the organisation and functioning of the (Enlarged) Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPO). The reforms have attracted significant attention by legal...

In this article, we report the results of a series of interviews with corporate directors about racial, ethnic, and gender diversity on corporate boards. On the one hand, our respondents were clear and nearly uniform in their statements that board diversity was an important goal worth pursuing....

This symposium essay summarizes our ongoing ethnographic research on corporate board diversity, discussing the central tension in our respondents’ views – their overwhelmingly enthusiastic support of board diversity coupled with an inability to articulate coherent accounts of board diversity...

This Article describes the results from fifty-seven interviews with corporate directors and a limited number of other persons (including institutional investors, search firm personnel, and the like) regarding their views on corporate board diversity. It highlights numerous tensions in these...

The joint venture company, or incorporated joint venture, is a common form of corporate entity in Malaysia, in part due to the Malaysian economic policy which sought to enhance bumiputera participation in the corporate economy. However, there is still a very small body of case law dealing with...

This paper reconsiders the orthodox Anglo-American understanding of labour as a constituency situated outside of the core corporate governance domain. It challenges the dominant neo-classical theory of the firm, which asserts that shareholders are in general the only group of ‘incomplete’...

In the fifty-sixth series of the Hamlyn Lectures (2004), Sir Bob Hepple applied his mind to particular structural problems facing UK employment law in the 21st century. One of the challenges which he identified was "the absence of a general principle that one may not derogate from certain core...