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The Origins of Company Law: Methods and Approaches

Edited by: Victoria Barnes, Jonathan Hardman

ISBN13: 9781509964444
To be Published: December 2024
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £100.00
Paperback edition not yet published, ISBN13 9781509964482



This book provides histories of company law, uniting a variety of approaches from law, business and management, economics, and history.

What were the origins of company law? How did it begin? Why did it change? There is no single answer to these questions. Each discipline, and sub-discipline, has a different approach and method that brings different facets of study to the fore. This multidisciplinary endeavour is immensely valuable for debates taking place now among policy-makers in the UK and US about returning to historic modes of company regulation.

The book brings together Anglo-American scholarship that will not only shed greater light on the history of company law but also influence contemporary debates about our ability to return to, or learn from, the past. Historical research has great value here because it not only generates new insights into the evolution of present legal rules, but also corrects misunderstandings and misapprehensions about them.

The book shows how this body of law developed to become the rules with which we are now familiar. It showcases antecedents of present debates, reveals regulatory lessons from previous legal regimes, identifies instances of path dependency, unpicks pivotal legal events, and explains drivers for legal change. The chapters reevaluate the history of company law, and the knowledge gathered here will inform the law-making and policy-making agenda.

Subjects:
Company Law, Legal History
Contents:
Introduction, Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Jonathan Hardman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
1. When Did Company Law Begin? Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Sally Wheeler (Birkbeck University, UK)
2. On Mistakes and Trajectories: Using History in Normative Company Law, Jonathan Hardman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
3. New Approaches in Corporate Law History: History as a Resource of Critique in Uncertain Times, Sarah Wilson (University of York, UK)
4. The Unexpected Origins of the Limited Liability Partnership, Harwell Wells (Temple University, USA)
5. Upending the State's Power to Regulate Corporate Separateness, Robert Thompson (Georgetown University, USA)
6. Salomon and Sequana: The Central Significance of Separate Legal Entity, Susan Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
7. Three Regimes: Corporations and Regulation in US History, Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University, University of Michigan, and NBER, USA)
8. Early American Corporations and the Public Purpose, Eric Hilt (Wellesley College, USA)
9. Capitalism as Personal: Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd (1881-1926), Lorraine Talbot (University of Birmingham, UK)
10. The Corporate Share: From Membership, to Financial Interest to Contractual Design, Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
11. Natural Unity? The Origins of the Principle of Inseparability of Voting Rights from Shares Across Jurisdictions, Jennifer Trinks (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
12. From Managerialism to Shareholder Primacy: The Role of the Cohen Committee and the Bank of England, Andrew Johnston (University of Warwick, UK)
13. A Few Pike in a Trout River? Hostile Take-Over Bids and Dividend Restraint: The Debate in Government in the 1950s, Neil Rollings (University of Glasgow, UK)
14. The Right to Repose in Peace: Ultra Vires and the Making of Modern Company Law, Paddy Ireland (University of Bristol, UK)

Series: Contemporary Studies in Corporate Law

Corporate Rescue: Law and Practice ISBN 9781841134611
To be published February 2028
Hart Publishing
£70.00
Diversity, Merit and Power in the C-Suite ISBN 9781509946600
Published November 2024
Hart Publishing
£42.99
£44.99
Diversity, Merit and Power in the C-Suite ISBN 9781509946563
Published May 2023
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£85.00
Diversity, Merit and Power in the C-Suite (eBook) ISBN 9781509946570
Published May 2023
Hart Publishing
£38.69
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Corporate Opportunities: A Law and Economics Analysis ISBN 9781509953226
Published March 2023
Hart Publishing
£42.99
Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance: Responsibility, Freedom and the Law ISBN 9781509946662
Published October 2022
Hart Publishing
£43.99
£40.49
(ePub)
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£100.00
The Making of the Modern Company (eBook) ISBN 9781509923649
Published June 2022
Hart Publishing
£38.69
(ePub)
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The Making of the Modern Company ISBN 9781509923625
Published June 2022
Hart Publishing
£90.00
Corporate Opportunities: A Law and Economics Analysis (eBook) ISBN 9781509917471
Published September 2021
Hart Publishing
£38.69
(ePub)
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Corporate Opportunities: A Law and Economics Analysis ISBN 9781509917457
Published September 2021
Hart Publishing
£90.00
£39.59
(ePub)
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Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance: Responsibility, Freedom and the Law ISBN 9781509918744
Published February 2021
Hart Publishing
£95.00
Corporate Governance in the Shadow of the State ISBN 9781849460088
Published March 2013
Hart Publishing
£95.00
Corporate Governance in the Shadow of the State (eBook) ISBN 9781782250876
Published March 2013
Hart Publishing
£85.50
(ePub)
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The Foundations and Anatomy of Stakeholder Activism ISBN 9781841136585
Published October 2010
Hart Publishing
£90.00
Law and Economics of Takeovers: An Acquirer's Perspective ISBN 9781841136646
Published May 2008
Hart Publishing
£95.00
Contracting with Companies ISBN 9781841131542
Published May 2005
Hart Publishing
£95.00
Working Within Two Kinds of Capitalism: Corporate Governance and Employee Stakeholding - US and EC Perspectives
Irene Lynch-FannonDean, Faculty of Law and Head, Department of Law, University College Cork, Ireland
ISBN 9781841132860
Published February 2003
Hart Publishing
£90.00