Forty years ago, managerialism dominated corporate governance. In both theory and practice, a team of senior managers ran the corporation with little or no interference from other stakeholders. Shareholders were essentially powerless and typically quiescent. Boards of directors were little more than rubber stamps. Today, the corporate governance landscape looks vastly different. The fall-out from the post-Enron scandal and implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have resulted in shareholder activism becoming more widespread, while many observers call for even greater empowerment. The notion that the board of directors is a mere pawn of top management is increasingly invalid, and as a result, modern boards of directors typically are smaller than their antecedents, meet more often, are more independent from management, own more stock, and have better access to information. The New Corporate Governance in Theory and Practice offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the emerging board-centered system of corporate governance. It draws on doctrinal legal analysis, behavioral economic insights into how individuals and groups make decisions, the work of new institutional economics on organizational structure, and management studies of corporate governance. Using those tools, Stephen Bainbridge traces the process by which this new corporate governance system emerged, and explores whether such changes are desirable or effective.

The New Corporate Governance in Theory and Practice

Business & Money

Bainbridge, Stephen

Finance

Oxford University Press

The emergence of the limited liability company has kindled renewed interest in unincorporated business associations among legal scholars. This revival was further stimulated by the multiple revisions made to the Uniform Partnership Act in the 1990s. By lending new intellectual respectability to the study of unincorporated business associations, these developments stimulated the supply side of the curricular equilibrium. Courses on unincorporated business associations have thus sprung up at many law schools. A number of very fine casebooks compete for that market, including one co-edited by the author of this volume. This text is intended to provide students taking a course in unincorporated business associations with a reader-friendly, highly accessible overview of the law and economics of unincorporated business associations. In addition, students taking a basic course in corporations or business associations may find this volume helpful as a more expansive treatment of the law of

Agency, Partnerships and LLCs (Concepts and Insights)

Business

Foundation Press

This text is a compilation of business association statutes and rules for classroom use, compiled for 2004.

Business Associations : Agency, Partnerships, Llcs, and Corporations : 2004 Statutes and Rules

Foundation Pr

Presenting the history, richness, and texture of important areas of law, this text illustrates the development of securities/insider trading law, with selected cases and in-depth explanations. Insider trading is a central topic in most corporations, business association, and securities regulation classes. For many corporate law students, insider trading is their principal introduction to federal securities law, SEC Rule 10b-5, and economic analysis. As a recommended text, this book addresses the important subject in a readable and authoritative manner. Accessible but sophisticated, it seeks to develop the reader's understanding of the theory and practice of insider trading law.

Securities Law: Insider Trading (Turning Point Series)

Corporations classes present students with two related problems: First, many students have trouble understanding the cases studied because they do not understand the transactions giving rise to those cases. Second, Corporations classes at many law schools are taught from a law and economics perspective, which many students find unfamiliar and/or daunting. Yet, with few exceptions, corporate law treatises and other study aids have essentially ignored the law and economics revolution. This book is intended to remedy these difficulties. The pedagogy is up-to - date, with a strong emphasis on the doctrinal issues taught in today’s Corporations classes and, equally important, a mainstream economic analysis of the major issues in the course. As such, the text is coherent and cohesive: It provides students not only with an overview of the course, but also (and more importantly) with a unifying method of thinking about the course. Using a few basic tools of law and economics-price theory, game theory, and the theory of the firm literature-students will come to see corporate law as the proverbial “seamless web.” Finally, the text is highly readable: The style is simple, direct, and reader- friendly. Even when dealing with complicated economic or financial issues, the text seeks to make those issues readily accessible.

Corporate Law (Concept and Insight Series, 2nd Edition)

The eighth edition of this concise, up-to-date casebook preserves the tradition of providing a comprehensive overview of agency, partnership, and corporation law. It continues to emphasize six basic editorial principles: 
<ul>
<li>Be lean but not mean; cases edited ruthlessly to produce a concise result</li>
<li>Facts matter and are included in all their potential ambiguity</li>
<li>Take a planner's perspective through extensive use of transactionally oriented problems</li>
<li>It's a casebook, not a treatise; no long, stultifying textual passages </li>
<li>Try to find cases that are fun to teach; great facts or a clever analysis have first priority in case selection</li>
<li>Provide a teachers' manual that goes into depth, with analysis of every case offering the disparate views of each author</li>
</ul>

Business Associations, Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations (University Casebook Series)

Klein, William

Ramseyer, J.

This text provides a concise statement of the the state corporate and federal securities laws governing mergers and acquisitions law designed for law students taking an advanced business law course such as mergers and acquisitions or corporate finance, lawyers practicing in corporate takeovers, and judges faced with cases arising out of such transactions. This thoroughly updated third edition features a considerably expanded treatment of practical aspects, such as drafting merger agreements, preparing disclosure documents, and dealing with takeover defenses.

Mergers and Acquisitions, 3d (Concepts and Insights)

This statutory supplement includes statutes and rules relevant to all business entities. It is suitable for use with all textbooks and casebooks for such courses. It is includes all updates to the statutes and rules.

Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Corporations- 2013 Statutes and Rules

This compact text is for use in law school classes on insider trading, securities regulation, or business associations. It offers a clear and direct exposition of the law and policy concerns raised by this important and high-profile area of the law. The author provides sufficient detail for a complete understanding of the subject without getting bogged down in minutiae. Faculty interested in teaching a short course on insider trading or making insider trading a major part of a course in securities or corporate law will find the text highly teachable, while student staking such a course using other materials will find it a useful study aid.

Insider Trading Law and Policy (Concepts and Insights)

Investing

Many students find their Corporation Law class difficult because they do not understand the transactions giving rise to those cases. As with its predecessors, this third edition is intended to assist students by not only restating the law but also by putting the law into its business and financial context. The pedagogy is up-to-date, with a strong emphasis on the doctrinal issues taught in today's Corporations classes. The text is highly readable: The style is simple, direct, and reader-friendly. Even when dealing with complicated economic or financial issues, the text seeks to make those issues readily accessible. This new edition brings the material up-to-date with complete coverage of developments in both state corporate law and federal securities law.

Corporate Law (Concepts and Insights)

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