The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach

by Edward B. Rock, Reinier H. Kraakman, Paul Davies, et al.

This book is a concise analytical overview of the field of corporate law. The authors start from the premise that corporate (or company) law across jurisdictions addresses the same three basic agency problems:

(1) the opportunism of managers vis- -vis shareholders;
(2) the opportunism of controlling shareholders vis- -vis minority shareholders; and
(3) the opportunism of shareholders as a class vis- -vis other corporate constituencies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199260648
• ISBN13: 9780199260645
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

The Anatomy of Corporate law: A comparative and funcional approach

Exccellent book, oth for lawyer and economists, Katra

Great book

I do agree with the former reviewer. This is a great book if you do want a comparative perspective of corporate law. It is concentrating on how different legal systems have solved the same problems with minority shareholders, agnecy costs etc. with examples from Japan to US to Europe. We are using it as required reading on two different law school courses.

Work of excellene

A first time global review of corporate law explaining everything. I loved it