The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach

About Gerard HertigHenry HansmannHideki KandaJohn ArmourKlaus HoptLuca EnriquesMariana PargendlerPaul DaviesReinier KraakmanWolf-Georg Ringe

Reinier Kraakman is the Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has written numerous articles on corporate law and the economic analysis of corporate liability regimes. He teaches courses in corporate law corporate finances and seminars on the theory of corporate law and comparative corporate governance. John Armour is Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He was previously a member of the Faculty of Law and the interdisciplinary Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Chicago Columbia Law School the University of Frankfurt the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law Hamburg and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His main research interests lie in company law corporate insolvency law and financial regulation in which areas he has published widely. He has been involved in policy projects commissioned by the UK's Department of Trade and Industry Financial Services Authority and Insolvency Service the Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Bank. He currently serves as a member of the European Commission's Informal Company Law Expert Group. Paul Davies is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Commercial Law at Harris Manchester College University of Oxford. He was the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law University of Oxford between 2009 and 2014. Between 1998 and 2009 he was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a member of the Steering Group for the Company Law Review which preceded the enactment of the Companies Act 2006 and has been involved recently in policy-related work for the UK Treasury. His most recent works include the 10th edition of Gower and Davies Principles of Modern Company Law (Sweet & Maxwell 2016 with Sarah Worthington); and Introduction to Company Law (OUP 2nd ed. 2010). He is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary Queen's Counsel. Luca Enriques is the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law in the Faculty of Law University of Oxford and a European Corporate Governance Institute Research Fellow. He has been Professor of Business Law at the University of Bologna and LUISS-Rome. Between 2007 and 2012 he served as a Commissioner at Consob the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission. He has been Visiting Professor at various institutions including Harvard Law School Instituto de Impresa (Madrid) and IDC Herzliya. He has published several books and articles on topics relating to corporate law corporate governance and financial regulation. He is a coauthor together with John Armour Paul Davies and others of Principles of Financial Regulation (OUP 2016). Henry Hansmann is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. His scholarship has focused principally on the law and economics of organizational ownership and structure and has dealt with all types of legal entities both profit-seeking and nonprofit private and public. He has been Professor or Visiting Professor at Harvard University New York University and the University of Pennsylvania Law Schools. Recent publications include Legal Entities as Transferable Bundles of Contracts (with Kenneth Ayotte) 111 Michigan Law Review 715 (2013) and External and Internal Asset Partitioning: Corporations and Their Subsidiaries (with Richard Squire) in Jeffrey Gordon and Georg Ringe (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP forthcoming). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Corporate Governance Institute. Gerard Hertig is Professor of Law at ETH Zurich and a European Corporate Governance Institute research fellow. He was previously Professor of Administrative Law and Director of the Centre d'Études Juridiques Européennes at the University of Geneva Law School (1987-1995). He has been a visiting professor at leading law schools in Asia Europe and the United States and practiced law as a member of the Geneva bar. Recent publications include Decision-Making During the Crisis: Why Did the Treasury Let Commercial Banks Fail? (with Ettore Croci and Eric Nowak) Journal of Empirical Finance (2016); Governance by Institutional Investors in a Stakeholder World in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP forthcoming); Shadow Resolutions as a No-No in a Sound Banking Union with Luca Enriques in Financial Regulation: A Transatlantic Perspective (CUP 2015). Klaus Hopt was Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg Germany. His main areas of specialization include commercial law corporate law and banking and securities regulation. He has been Professor of Law in Tübingen Florence Bern and Munich Visiting Professor at numerous universities in Europe Japan and the USA including the University of Pennsylvania the University of Chicago NYU Harvard and Columbia and was a judge of the Court of Appeals Stuttgart Germany. He served as a member of the High Level Group of Experts mandated by the European Commission to recommend EU company and takeover law reforms. He is a Member of the German National Academy (Leopoldina). Recent publications include Comparative Corporate Governance (CUP 2013 with Andreas Fleckner (eds.)) and Corporate Boards in Law and Practice (OUP 2013 with Paul Davies et al. (eds.)). Hideki Kanda is Professor of Law at Gakushuin University Law School from 2016. His main areas of specialization include commercial law corporate law banking regulation and securities regulation. He was Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo until 2016. He was also Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School (1989 1991 and 1993) and at Harvard Law School (1996). Recent publications include Corporate Law (18th ed Kobundo 2016 in Japanese) Comparative Corporate Governance (Oxford University Press 1998 with Klaus Hopt et al (eds.)) and Economics of Corporate Law (University of Tokyo Press 1998 with Yoshiro Miwa and Noriyuki Yanagawa (eds.) in Japanese). Mariana Pargendler is Professor of Law at FGV Law School in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP) where she directs the Center for Law Economics and Governance. She is also Global Associate Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She is the author of numerous articles on corporate law and comparative corporate governance. Her main recent publications include The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption (with Henry Hansmann) 123 Yale Law Journal 948 (2014) Politics in the Origins: The Making of Corporate Law in Nineteenth-Century Brazil 60 American Journal of Comparative Law 805 (2013) and State Ownership and Corporate Governance 80 Fordham Law Review 2917 (2012). Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He has held visiting positions at various institutions in Europe and North America including Columbia Law School and Vanderbilt University. He is the editor of the new Journal of Financial Regulation which has been published by Oxford University Press since 2015. He has been involved in policy work with both the European Commission and the European Parliament on issues of European Corporate Law. His current research interests are in the general areas of law and finance comparative corporate governance capital and financial Markets insolvency law and conflict of laws. Recent publications include The Deconstruction of Equity (OUP 2016) and The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP forthcoming with Jeffrey Gordon (eds.)). Edward Rock is Professor of Law at New York University Law School and director of NYU's Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance. He writes widely on corporate law has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main Jerusalem and Columbia and has practiced law as a member of the Pennsylvania bar. Recent publications include Does Majority Voting Improve Board Accountability? (with Stephen Choi Jill Fisch and Marcel Kahan) University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming) Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP forthcoming) and Symbolic Corporate Governance Politics (with Marcel Kahan) 94 Boston University Law Review 1997 (2014).