Corporate law is a field that underwent as thorough a revolution in the 1980s as can be imagined, in scholarship and practice, methodological and organizational, in which finance and the economic theory of the firm were used to inform the field. The timing of this revolution was not a fortuitous occurrence: it followed a revolution in corporate finance and

CPIME on the Prevention of crim Original: english and the Treatment of offenders Vienna, 10-17 April 2000 Item 6 of the provisional agenda Offenders and victims: accountability and fairness in the justice process Women in the criminal justice system Background paper for the workshop on women in the criminal justice system

Discussions of corporate governance reform often combine prescriptions for legal reform with prescriptions for better governance practices. Both sets of prescriptions-for better law and for better practices-typically focus on the board of directors, and particularly outside or \independent\directors. The assumption is that the law can affect the governance behavior of the board by establishing roles for outside directors and by

This paper develops a model of the competition among states in providing corporate law rules. The analysis provides a full characterization of the equilibrium in this market Competition among states is shown to produce optimal rules with respect to issues that do not have a substantial effect on managers private benefits

Despite the apparent divergence in institutions of govenance, share ownership, capital markets, and business culture across developed economies, the basic law of the corporate form has already achieved a high degree of uniformity and continued convergence is likely. A principal reason for convergence is a widespread normative consensus that corporate managers should act exclusively in the economic interests of

Forthcoming in 2 STAN AGORA(2000). As David Millon so ably demonstrates, metaphor drives much of the debate within corporate law jurisprudence and corporate law scholarship. It has done so for decades, even centuries. Scholars have used metaphors-corporation as person, corporation as creature of the state, corporation as property, corporation as contract

1.Introduction moManaging information systems today comprises the areas of application development, primarily process ng and data modeling, as well as system introduction training, maintenance, and the task of coping with innovation, meaning the responsibility of keeping the technological basis up to date Developing and running specialised systems, general information information systems and open and integrated

What is the common structure of the law of business corporations-or, as it would be put in the UK, company lawacross— national jurisdictions Although this question is rarely asked by corporate law scholars, it is critically important for the comparative investigation of corporate law. Recent scholar- e cor ship emphasizes the divergence among European, American, and Japanese cor- porations in corporate governance, share ownership, capital markets, and business culture. But, notwithstanding the very real differences across jurisdic- tions along these dimensions

1Introduction In this report' we will present, given the space available, a brief overview o fDutch security, followed by a discussion of the law of personal security. We will focus on questions as to which practical and/or theoretical uncertainties exist. Although a major part of the books on patrimonial law of the Dutch Civil Code entered into force 10 years ago, already case law is developing in areas where the codified rules proved to be unc olutions whi

Brucellosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria of the genus Brucella These bacteria are primarily passed among animals, and they cause disease in many different vertebrates Various Brucella species affect sheep, goats, cattle, deer, elk, pigs, dogs, and several other animals Humans become infected by coming in contact witl animals or animal products that are contaminated with these bacteria