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Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence Within A Pluralistic Business Legal Order---Company Law And Independent Director System In Contemporary China , Chi-Wei Huang
Chi-Wei Huang
Worldwide Corporate Governance Convergence within A Pluralistic Business Legal Order—Company Law and Independent Director System in Contemporary China
Chi-Wei Huang, S.J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School March 29, 2007
Abstract:
A deeper tendency across developed market jurisdictions has been a convergence toward a single, standard corporate structure. The essential legal features of a shareholder-oriented ideology are well established among those developed market jurisdictions and noticeably dominate the development of worldwide corporate forms. Striving to increase long-term shareholder value has become the most competitive corporate governance theory among developed economies. A series of examinations of worldwide corporate governance and ownership have …
United States V. Lazarenko: Filling In Gaps In Support And Regulation Of Transnational Relationships, Philip M. Nichols
United States V. Lazarenko: Filling In Gaps In Support And Regulation Of Transnational Relationships, Philip M. Nichols
Philip M. Nichols
The prosecution in the United States of Pavlo Lazarenko for corruption merits study for two reasons. First, it provides case study of the use of local laws to deal with a transnational act. Law should support and regulates interaction within communities; local laws that stop at the borders do little to support transnational communities and international law, which does not recognize most transnational persons as legitimate subjects of international law, does even less. The court that tried Lazarenko could not therefore rely solely on its local law nor could it turn to nonexistent transnational law; instead it cobbled together local …