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Room: T8

Tel: (3)30084

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Professor of Corporate Law (S.J. Berwin); Director of the MCL

B.A., LL.B. (Vict. B.C.), LL.M. (Cantab.);

Interests

Company law. Corporate governance. Law and economics.  Business history.

Research centres and interest groups

Publications

 

Books

The Public Company Transformed (OUP, 2018)

The History of Modern U.S. Corporate Governance (ed) (Edward Elgar, 2011)

Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed (OUP, 2008)

ISBN:
0199236976
ISBN 13:
978-0199236978
Published Oct 2008

The Trajectory of (Corporate Law) Scholarship: Inaugural Lecture Delivered (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

ISBN:
052160639X
ISBN 13:
9780521606394
Published Oct 2003

Company Law: Theory, Structure and Operation (Clarendon Press, 1997)

Publisher:
ISBN:
0198259735
ISBN 13:
978-0198259732
Published May 1997

Articles

"Team Production Theory Across the Waves" Vanderbilt Law Review

Citation:
Vanderbilt Law Review
DOI:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3751392
Published: Forthcoming

"Corporate Law’s Critical Junctures" Business Lawyer

Citation:
Business Lawyer
Published: Forthcoming

"Stop Blaming Milton Friedman!" 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1607 (2021)

Citation:
98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1607 (2021)
Published: Dec 2020

"The Rise and Fall(?) of the Berle-Means Corporation" 42 Seattle University Law Review 445-98

Citation:
42 Seattle University Law Review 445-98
Published: Apr 2019

"Corporate Governance and Countervailing Power" Business Lawyer 74: 1-52

Citation:
Business Lawyer 74: 1-52
Published: Jan 2019

"Executive Pay: What Worked?" Journal of Corporation Law 42: 59-107 (2016)

Co-Author/s:
Steven A. Bank and Harwell Wells
Citation:
Journal of Corporation Law 42: 59-107 (2016)
Published: Sep 2016

"Stock Market Prices and the Market for Corporate Control" University of Illinois Law Review [2016] 761-820

Co-Author/s:
John Armour
Citation:
University of Illinois Law Review [2016] 761-820
Published: Sep 2016

"Shareholder Protection Across Time" University of Florida Law Review 68: 691-763 (2016)

Co-Author/s:
Steven A. Bank and Harwell Wells
Citation:
University of Florida Law Review 68: 691-763 (2016)
Published: Sep 2016

Book Chapters

"What Jensen and Meckling Really Said About the Public Company" in Elizabeth Pollman and Robert Thompson (ed(s)), Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood (Edward Elgar, 2021), pp. 2-26

"The History of Corporate Governance" in Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey and Igor Filatotchev (ed(s)), The History of Corporate Governance/Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 46-64

"Origins of ‘Offensive’ Shareholder Activism in the United States" in Jonathan G.S. Koppell (ed(s)), The Origins of Shareholder Advocacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 253-76

Publisher:
Pages:
253-76
ISBN 13:
978-0-230-10732-8
Published Sep 2011