Developments in European Company Law : Directors' Conflicts of Interest, Legal, Socio-Legal and Economic Analyses PDF

The essays in this third volume of Developments in European Company Law are concerned with conflicts of interest and duty i n company law. A first part provides a legal analysis of the duties of company directors, of their accountability, and of the trustee's perspective. A second part provides a socio-legal analysis and a third part an economic analysis. The essays provide important contributions to law reform and scholarly debate of these pressing issues of company law. The contributors include leading judges with an interest in the field, Lord Hoffmann and Lady Justice Arden, and academics from the UK and Australia, Charles Harpum, John Birds, John Lowry, Rod Edmunds, Paddy Ireland, Ian M. Ramsay, Geof Stapledon, Neil Andrews, Janet Dine, Christopher Riley, Andrew Griffith, A.J. Boyle, Simon Deakins and Alan Hughes. Mads Andenas Ph.D.(Cambridge), D.Phil. (Oxon) is the Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College and of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford. David Sugarman Ph.D. (Cambridge) is a Professor of Law at the University of Lancaster.