Through the Legal Looking Glass: Exploring the Concept of Corporate Legal Strategy

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51 * Antoine Masson is currently working at the European Court of Justice as a referendaire, managing the “Law, Management and Strategies” research program of the ESSEC European Center for Law and Economics and collaborating with the University of Luxembourg. He has been a part-time lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin and a researcher at HEC-Paris. He has edited two books on legal strategies including Legal Strategies: How Corporations Use Law to Improve Performance (Germany: 2010) with Mary J Shariff. He has published extensively on Law and Management, Business Law and European Law. The author wishes to thank Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas and Nocella Lauriane for their help. massona@essec.fr. ** Mary J Shariff is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba and Associate of the Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law. She teaches in the areas of contract law, international business law, natural resources law and bioethics and the law and is currently publishing and conducting research in Legal Strategies as well as in the intersection of Science, Technology, the Environment and the Law. The assistance of Kevin Marechal de Carteret is gratefully acknowledged and was made possible by generous financial support from the Marcel A Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. shariff@cc.umanitoba.ca. Through the Legal Looking Glass: Exploring the Concept of Corporate Legal Strategy