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Competition Policy And Comparative Corporate Governance Of State-Owned Enterprises, D. Daniel Sokol Dec 2009

Competition Policy And Comparative Corporate Governance Of State-Owned Enterprises, D. Daniel Sokol

BYU Law Review

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Law And Finance: Inaccurate, Incomplete, And Important, Ruth V. Aguilera, Cynthia A. Williams Dec 2009

Law And Finance: Inaccurate, Incomplete, And Important, Ruth V. Aguilera, Cynthia A. Williams

BYU Law Review

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Legal Origins And The Tasks Of Corporate Law In Economic Development: A Preliminary Exploration, John Ohnesorge Dec 2009

Legal Origins And The Tasks Of Corporate Law In Economic Development: A Preliminary Exploration, John Ohnesorge

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legal Regimes And Political Particularism: An Assessment Of The "Legal Families" Theory From The Perspectives Of Comparative Law And Political Economy, John W. Cioffi, D. Gordon Smith Dec 2009

Legal Regimes And Political Particularism: An Assessment Of The "Legal Families" Theory From The Perspectives Of Comparative Law And Political Economy, John W. Cioffi, D. Gordon Smith

BYU Law Review

The “legal families” theory of corporate law and ownership structures pioneered by Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-deSilanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny provides one of the most influential accounts of why “law matters” in shaping economic organization and outcomes. However, the empirical bases and theoretical logic of the theory contain serious flaws and limitations. First, as has been pointed out by a number of critics engaged in this revision, the legal origins literature contains numerous problematic characterizations of substantive law that expose the serious problems of quantitative operationalization of legal rules as a mode of comparative legal analysis. Second, the …


Contemporary Legal Transplants: Legal Families And The Diffusion Of (Corporate) Law, Holger Spamann Spamann Dec 2009

Contemporary Legal Transplants: Legal Families And The Diffusion Of (Corporate) Law, Holger Spamann Spamann

BYU Law Review

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