Law : Corporate

This edited collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners from various jurisdictions, with essays and commentaries co-ordinated around the theme of alignments and misalignments between commercial law and commercial practice. more...

Price: $200.00

All public and private companies are required by law to appoint a company secretary. If you are setting up a company or will be acting as the company secretary, this book will help you get to grips with all the basic aspects of compliance required by the Companies Act. It helps you get it right from the start, preventing problems arising during the day to day administration of a company and avoiding potentially costly omissions. Just as importantly, it will enable you to recognise when to turn to a chartered secretary or a solicitor for advice. more...

Price: $13.40

This book complements 'black letter' treatments of contract by looking at legal doctrine and statutes in their social, political and economic contexts. It aims to increase students understanding of the law of contract but also to convince them why it is so important to us all. more...

Price: $42.95

This book surveys the main rules of Company Law governing the making of contracts with companies. It adopts an economic perspective, examining these rules in terms of the risks they apportion between companies and parties contracting with them. It reviews the use that has been made of economics in the analysis of Company Law and considers what guidance this can provide in analysing corporate contracting. The book then examines the relevant law and the issues raised by this law, covering the role of corporate constitutions as the source of the authority of corporate agents, the mechanisms of corporate activity and decision-making, the identification of corporate contracting parties, pre-incorporation contracts and other contracts with non-existent companies, the contractual power of a company’s board, the protection of parties dealing with subordinate corporate agents and the regulation of contracts in which a director has a conflict of interest. more...

Price: $100.00

The decision of the House of Lords in Salomon v. Salomon & Co Ltd has had lasting influence on the development of modern company law. This one hundred year old decision articulated the founding propositions of company law and is accordingly treated with reverence by academics and practitioners alike. The centenary of the case therefore affords a convenient opportunity to review these developments in company law. In doing so,the contributors to this volume range broadly across the modern approaches to company law and attempt to place key aspects of the subject in a theoretical and historical perspective and to lay bare the structural, theoretical and policy issues which lie behind its day-to-day technicalities. more...

Price: $124.00