Corporate Governance after the Financial Crisis

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Contents: Introduction P.M. Vasudev and Susan Watson PART I: THE 'GREAT DEBATE' 1. New Thinking on 'Shareholder Primacy' Lynn A. Stout 2. Shareholder Primacy in Corporate Law - A Response to Professor Stout Peter Watts 3. Derivation of Powers of Boards of Directors in UK Companies Susan Watson 4. Enlightened Shareholder Value, Social Responsibility and the Redefinition of Corporate Purpose Without Law David Millon 5. Re-evaluating the Basis of Corporate Governance in the Post, Post-Enron Era Leonard I. Rotman 6. Corporate Stakeholders in New Zealand - The Present, and Possibilities for the Future P.M. Vasudev 7. Institutional Investors as Blockholders Aviv Pichhadze PART II: PRIVATE REMEDY IN CORPORATE LAW AND ITS LIMITS 8. The Role of Corporate Law in Preventing a Financial Crisis - Reflections on In Re Citigroup Inc Shareholder Derivative Litigation Franklin A. Gevurtz PART III: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALIZATION 9. How Public Regulation Changes Corporate Governance Practice - Corporate Board Reform in Taiwan Yu-Hsin Lin 10. Corporate Law Reform and Corporate Governance in Malaysia - Responses to Globalization Aishah Bidin PART IV: CORPORATE ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY 11. Public Regulatory Encouragement to the Adoption of Private Ordering Systems to Achieve Environmental Protection through Sustainable Commerce Peter A. Appel and T. Rick Irvin 12. Codes of Ethics and Corporate Governance - A Study of New Zealand Listed Companies Trish Keeper Index