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Comparative and Foreign Law

Selected Works

United States

2016

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European Corporate Law And National Divergences: The Case Of Takeover Regulation, Peer Zumbansen Aug 2016

European Corporate Law And National Divergences: The Case Of Takeover Regulation, Peer Zumbansen

Peer Zumbansen

In this book review, Peer Zumbansen offers a review of Joseph A. McCahery's, Corporate Governance Regimes: Convergence and Diversity, Christin M. Forstinger's, Takeover Law in the EU and the USA: A Comparative Analysis, and Jennifer Payne's, Takeovers in English and German Law.


Conceptions Of Authority And The Anglo-American Common Law Divide, Dan Priel Jul 2016

Conceptions Of Authority And The Anglo-American Common Law Divide, Dan Priel

Dan Priel

This essay seeks to explain the puzzle of the divergence of American law from the rest of the common law world through the lens of legal theory. I argue that there are four competing ideal-type theories of the authority of the common law: reason, practice, custom, and will. The reason view explains the authority of the common law in terms of correspondence to the demands of pure practical reason; the practice view sees the authority of the common law as derived from the expertise of practitioners (especially judges and practice-oriented academics) who try to develop the common law as a …


Diversity In The Boardroom: A Content Analysis Of Corporate Proxy Disclosures, Aaron A. Dhir Jul 2016

Diversity In The Boardroom: A Content Analysis Of Corporate Proxy Disclosures, Aaron A. Dhir

Aaron A. Dhir

My work in this field has focused on regulation by quota and regulation by disclosure. With regard to quotas, strikingly, the Norwegian law is not located in regulation that explicitly deals with human rights or equality issues; rather, it is found in the heart of the legal regime that gives life and personality to corporations – in Norwegian corporate law. I have conducted qualitative, interview-based research with Norwegian corporate directors, both men and women. It is only through understanding how the goals of the law have translated into the day-to-day existence of these individuals that we can begin to consider …