Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2376278
Xue Feng
This article explores the important but unresolved issue of whether one legal entity can be vicariously liable for another legal entity’s tort in a corporate group primarily based on UK law. Prior ...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2373463
Andreas Kokkinis, Konstantinos Sergakis
Equity investment is seen in both dominant and critical corporate law literature as a passive act that carries exclusively instrumental value. This conceptualisation legitimises shareholder paterna...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-17DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2355678
Lai Yee Choy
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Pub Date : 2024-07-17DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2365170
Eva Micheler
The article proposes a modern version of real entity theory to explain the principle of the separate legal personality of the company. This theoretical model relies on scholarship from the wider so...
{"title":"Separate legal personality – an explanation and a defence","authors":"Eva Micheler","doi":"10.1080/14735970.2024.2365170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2024.2365170","url":null,"abstract":"The article proposes a modern version of real entity theory to explain the principle of the separate legal personality of the company. This theoretical model relies on scholarship from the wider so...","PeriodicalId":44517,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Law Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2361507
Susan Watson, Lynn Buckley
Directors’ duty to act in good faith and to act in the best interests of the company relates to the interests of shareholders held in the company as a separate legal entity. The obligation to act i...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2351230
Narine Lalafaryan
The thesis of this paper is that the role of debt and its relationship with equity in the firm, due to recent significant developments in the corporate finance markets after the global financial cr...
{"title":"Private credit: a renaissance in corporate finance","authors":"Narine Lalafaryan","doi":"10.1080/14735970.2024.2351230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2024.2351230","url":null,"abstract":"The thesis of this paper is that the role of debt and its relationship with equity in the firm, due to recent significant developments in the corporate finance markets after the global financial cr...","PeriodicalId":44517,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Law Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2350142
Christian Witting
{"title":"The place of managers in the corporate governance architecture","authors":"Christian Witting","doi":"10.1080/14735970.2024.2350142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2024.2350142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44517,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Law Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2350139
Marco Dell’Erba, Suren Gomtsyan
{"title":"Regulatory and investor demands to use ESG performance metrics in executive compensation: right instrument, wrong method","authors":"Marco Dell’Erba, Suren Gomtsyan","doi":"10.1080/14735970.2024.2350139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2024.2350139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44517,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Law Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2334966
Luh Luh Lan, Walter Wan
It is difficult to advance the ESG agenda using company law, especially in common law legal systems. Cases show that directors’ duties require directors to prioritise the ‘interests of the company’...
{"title":"ESG and director’s duties: defining and advancing the interests of the company","authors":"Luh Luh Lan, Walter Wan","doi":"10.1080/14735970.2024.2334966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2024.2334966","url":null,"abstract":"It is difficult to advance the ESG agenda using company law, especially in common law legal systems. Cases show that directors’ duties require directors to prioritise the ‘interests of the company’...","PeriodicalId":44517,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Corporate Law Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140601060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1080/14735970.2024.2309736
Eric W. Orts
This article examines the current debate advocating ‘business purpose' as an alternative to the common view that business should focus only on profit maximisation. A legal analysis reveals that ‘bu...
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