1.
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1701, 2010, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9-12
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 13 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 22 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
20,256
2.
What is Corporate Law?
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 27 Jul 2004
Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
11,318
3.
The Essential Elements of Corporate Law
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 387, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper No. 643, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-39, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,582
4.
Corporate Governance in China: An Overview
Donald C. Clarke, "Corporate Governance in China: An Overview", China Economic Review, vol. 14, 2003, pp. 494-507
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 14 Aug 2003
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
Downloads
9,017
5.
Systemic Risk
Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 163, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 19 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 26 Sep 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
8,607
6.
A Theory of Corporate Scandals: Why the U.S. And Europe Differ
Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 274
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 30 Mar 2005
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
8,423
7.
The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 08 Sep 2003
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 08 Sep 2003
Downloads
8,180
The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?
NBER Working Paper No. w9613
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 11 Apr 2003
Downloads
181
Downloads
8,180
8.
Modern Company and Capital Market Problems: Improving European Corporate Governance after Enron
AFTER ENRON, IMPROVING CORPORATE LAW AND MODERNISING SECURITIES REGULATION IN EUROPE AND THE U.S., pp. 445-496, J. Armour, J. A. McCahery, eds., Oxford (Hart), 2006, ECGI Law Working Paper No. 05/2002, ECGI Finance Working Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 11 Dec 2002
Last Revised: 06 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
6,855
9.
Why Tolerate Religion?
Constitutional Commentary, Winter 2008
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 26 May 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago
Downloads
6,124
10.
Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 117-140, Winter 2007
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 16 Mar 2007
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford Faculty of Law and City University London - Faculty of Finance
Downloads
5,866
11.
Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644
, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
5,820
12.
Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement
Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 304
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 09 Mar 2007
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
5,571
13.
Introduction to Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research
THEORY AND METHOD IN SOCIAL-LEGAL RESEARCH, R. Banakar, M. Travers, eds., Oxford, Hart, 2005
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 11 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lund University - Sociology of Law and University of Tasmania
Downloads
5,544
14.
Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Complicating the Comparative Taxonomy
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 49/2005, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 309, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 281
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 19 Aug 2005
Working Paper Series
Stanford Law School
Downloads
5,215
15.
Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 25/2003; AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings; EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper No. 251
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 May 2003
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University and City University London - Faculty of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 25/2003; AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings; EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper No. 251
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 May 2003
Downloads
5,209
Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3889
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Jun 2003
Downloads
65
Downloads
5,209
16.
Human Rights and Rule of Law: What's the Relationship?
Georgetown Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, 2005, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 05-31
Number of pages: 153
Posted: 04 Oct 2005
Last Revised: 14 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
La Trobe University - Faculty of Law and Management
Downloads
5,101
17.
Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 29 May 2012
Last Revised: 22 Feb 2017
Working Paper Series
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics, Maastricht University and University of Notre Dame
Downloads
5,097
18.
The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution
New York University Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 762-858, June 2012, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-09-01, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-39
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 07 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 26 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads
4,949
19.
European Company Law 1999-2010: Renaissance and Crisis
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 175/2011, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 63/2010
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 14 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 27 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
Downloads
4,823
20.
Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Coexistence?
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 5, p. 47, 2003, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2003-27, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 04-003
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 15 Oct 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
4,726
21.
Comparative Company Law
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 77/2006, THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., p. 1161-1191, Oxford University Press, 2006
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 17 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2011
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
4,722
22.
Keynote Address: Understanding the Subprime Financial Crisis
South Carolina Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 23 Oct 2008
Last Revised: 28 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
4,327
23.
Multinational Corporations, Transnational Law: The United Nation's Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations as Harbinger of Corporate Responsibility in International Law
Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 37, 2005
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 05 Apr 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law
Downloads
4,014
24.
Agency Problems and Legal Strategies
THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH, R. Kraakman, P. Davies, H. Hansmann, G. Hertig, K. Hopt, H. Kanda, and E. Rock, Oxford University Press, pp. 21-31, 2004
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 13 Dec 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
3,953
25.
Outside Director Liability Across Countries
as published in Texas Law Review, Vol. 84, pp. 1385-1480, 2006, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 71/2006, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 266, Univ of Texas Law and Economics Research Paper No. 31
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 20 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads
3,944
26.
Five Years of China WTO Membership: EU and US Perspectives About China's Compliance With Transparency Commitments and the Transitional Review Mechanism
Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Kluwer Law International, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 263-304, August 2006
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 04 Aug 2006
Last Revised: 29 Nov 2013
Accepted Paper Series
West Virginia University (WV, USA)
Downloads
3,943
27.
China's Financial System: Past, Present, and Future
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 05 Aug 2005
Working Paper Series
Imperial College London, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University and Australian National University (ANU) - College of Business and Economics
Downloads
3,884
28.
Is There a Relationship between Guns and Freedom? Comparative Results from 59 Nations
Texas Review of Law and Politics, Vol. 13
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 06 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
Independence Institute, College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and Independent
Downloads
3,832
29.
Toward Supranational Copyright Law? The WTO Panel Decision and the 'Three-Step Test' for Copyright Exceptions
Revue Internationale du Droit d'Auteur, January 2001
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 05 Jan 2001
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University - Law School
Downloads
3,821
30.
The Independent Director in Chinese Corporate Governance
Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 125-228, 2006, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 204, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 204
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 15 Apr 2006
Last Revised: 25 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
Downloads
3,660
31.
Comparative Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and International Regulation
American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 59, p. 1, January 2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 170/2011
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 25 Nov 2010
Last Revised: 10 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Downloads
3,645
32.
Do Constitutions Requiring Adherence to Sharia Threaten Human Rights?: How Egypt's Constitutional Court Reconciles Islamic Law with the Liberal Rule of Law
American University International Law Review, Vol. 21, pp. 379-435, 2006
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 22 Jun 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington School of Law and George Washington University - Department of Political Science
Downloads
3,616
33.
Comparative Corporate Governance and the Theory of the Firm: The Case Against Global Cross Reference
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1999
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 26 Feb 2000
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)
Downloads
3,518
34.
What Works in Securities Laws?
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 03-22; AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 Dec 2004
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
What Works in Securities Laws?
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 03-22; AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 Dec 2004
Downloads
3,473
What Works in Securities Law?
NBER Working Paper No. w9882
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 05 Aug 2003
Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010
Downloads
150
Downloads
3,473
35.
Party Autonomy in the Private International Law of Contracts: Transatlantic Convergence and Economic Efficiency
CLPE Research Paper No. 4/2007, CONFLICT OF LAWS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD, Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Giesela Rühl & Jan von Hein, eds., Cambridge University Press,
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 08 Aug 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Downloads
3,388
36.
The Relationship between Public Antitrust Enforcement and Private Actions for Damages
World Competition, Vol. 32, No. 1, March 2009
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 07 Nov 2008
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2013
Accepted Paper Series
King's College London – The Dickson Poon School of Law
Downloads
3,387
37.
The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information
New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, p. 1814, 2011, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1909366, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 584, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 584
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 15 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and George Washington University Law School
Downloads
3,349
38.
Reconciling Personal Information in the United States and European Union
102 California Law Review 877 (2014), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2271442, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-77, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-77
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 May 2013
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and George Washington University Law School
Downloads
3,326
39.
The Transfer of the Company's Seat in European Company Law
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 08/2003
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 01 Apr 2003
Working Paper Series
Ghent University - Financial Law Institute
Downloads
3,313
40.
Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 96, p. 123, 2007, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 249, Washington U. School of Law Working Paper No. 07-03-02
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 13 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and George Washington University Law School
Downloads
3,292
41.
Universal Moral Grammar: Theory, Evidence, and the Future
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 2007, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 954398
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 02 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
3,279
42.
Institutions, Power and Institutional Balance
THE EVOLUTION OF EU LAW, p. 41, Paul Craig and Grainne de Burca, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 48/2011
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 19 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Downloads
3,263
43.
Global Data Privacy Laws: 89 Countries, and Accelerating
Privacy Laws & Business International Report, Issue 115, Special Supplement, February 2012, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 98/2012
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 06 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law
Downloads
3,235
44.
Piercing the Corporate Veil in Canada: A Comparative Analysis
Company Lawyer, Vol. 28, No. 2, p. 58, 2007
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 15 Apr 2007
Accepted Paper Series
University of New South Wales and University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law
Downloads
3,230
45.
What Google Knows: Privacy and Internet Search Engines
Utah Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 19 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Downloads
3,192
46.
An Overview of Us Insider Trading Law: Lessons for the EU?
UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 05-5
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 26 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads
3,189
47.
The Evolution and Ideology of Global Constitutionalism
California Law Review, Vol. 99, p. 1163, 2011, APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-10-01
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 24 Oct 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads
3,187
48.
The Relationship Between Law and Development: Optimists versus Skeptics
American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2008, NYU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-14, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-24
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 23 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 27 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads
3,185
49.
A Comparative Study of Insider Trading Regulation Enforcement In the U.S. and China
Journal of Business & Securities Law, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2008
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 23 Feb 2007
Last Revised: 16 Aug 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Downloads
3,119
50.
The Boundaries of Regulatory Expropriation in International Law
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 21 Apr 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Victoria - Faculty of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Boundaries of Regulatory Expropriation in International Law
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 21 Apr 2005
Downloads
3,073
The Boundaries of Regulatory Expropriation in International Law
ICSID Review-Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 30 Aug 2005
Downloads
1,654
Downloads
3,073
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