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Author:   David Kershaw (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.805kg
ISBN:  

9781107465305

ISBN 10:   1107465303
Pages:   547
Publication Date:   21 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: corporate legal ideas; Part I. Business Judgment and the Idea of Honesty in the Exercise of Delegated Power: 1. Business judgments: origins; 2. Business judgments in UK corporate law; 3. The foundations of the business judgement rule in the United States; 4. The structural dissonance of Delaware's business judgment rule; Part II. The Duty of Care and the Ideas of Reward and Undertaking: 5. Origins: between laxity and terror in bailment and trusts law; 6. The origins of the director's duty of care in the United States; 7. The Delaware duty of care: fragments of jurisprudence; 8. The duty of care in the United Kingdom: in the shadow of gross negligence; Part III. Self-Dealing and the Idea of the Corporation: 9. Conceptions of the corporation; 10. The United Kingdom: contracting out of the common law; 11. The United States: the paths to fairness review; Part IV. Connected Assets and the Idea of Property: 12. Connected assets law in the United Kingdom: the property institution; 13. The modern UK approach and the disappearance of property; 14. Connected assets law in the United States: between property and prescription; 15. Explaining divergent evolution in connected assets law.

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David Kershaw is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds an LL.B. from the University of Warwick, and an LL.M. and an SJ.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to entering academic life he practiced corporate law in both London and New York. He is the author of multiple articles on corporate law, takeover law and accounting and audit regulation. He is the author of Company Law in Context (2012) and the Principles of Takeover Regulation (2016).

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