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Judicial Independence And Company Law In The Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008, Nicholas C. Howson
Judicial Independence And Company Law In The Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008, Nicholas C. Howson
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This chapter draws on a detailed study of corporate law adjudication in Shanghai from 1992 to 2008. The purpose of the study was to better understand the demonstrated technical competence, institutional autonomy, and political independence of one court system in the People's Republic of China ("PRC") in a sector outside of the criminal law. The study consisted of a detailed examination and comparison of full-length corporate law opinions for more than 200 reported cases, a 2003 Shanghai High Court opinion on the 1994 Company Law (describing a decade of corporate case outcomes), a 2007 report on cases implementing the Company …
The Development Of Modern Corporate Governance In China And India, Nicholas C. Howson, Vikramaditya S. Khanna
The Development Of Modern Corporate Governance In China And India, Nicholas C. Howson, Vikramaditya S. Khanna
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Corporate governance reform has become a topic of considerable debate both in the US and in many emerging markets. Indeed, the discussion is important because these reforms may have potentially long-standing effects upon the global allocation of capital, and in understanding the ways in which governance norms are communicated across markets and nations in an ever-globalizing world. In this chapter we examine the corporate governance reform efforts of the world's two biggest and fastest growing emerging markets, the People's Republic of China (PRC or China) and India. In the process we find that our understanding of how and why corporate …