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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

Paul Ohm

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 19,117

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

Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 10,243

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

John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 9,736

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

Donald C. Clarke

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 8,642

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

Steven L. Schwarcz

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 8,386

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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

John C. Coffee Jr.

Columbia Law School

Downloads 8,144

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

Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,087

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

Klaus J. Hopt

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Downloads 6,761

9.

Why Tolerate Religion?

Constitutional Commentary, Winter 2008

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 May 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 6,002

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

Luca Enriques and Paolo F. Volpin

University of Oxford Faculty of Law and City University London - Faculty of Finance

Downloads 5,727

11.

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

John C. Coffee Jr.

Columbia Law School

Downloads 5,437

12.

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

John Armour, Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,173

13.

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

Stefano Rossi and Paolo F. Volpin

Bocconi University and City University London - Faculty of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,099

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

Ronald J. Gilson

Stanford Law School

Downloads 5,009

15.

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

Reza Banakar and Max Travers

Lund University and University of Tasmania

Downloads 4,813

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

Randall Peerenboom

La Trobe University - Faculty of Law and Management

Downloads 4,791

17.

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

David S. Law and Mila Versteeg

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 4,737

18.

Pension Fund Asset Allocation and Liability Discount Rates

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 May 2012 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2017

Working Paper Series

Aleksandar Andonov, Rob Bauer and Martijn Cremers

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics, Maastricht University and University of Notre Dame

Downloads 4,573

19.

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

Laurence R. Helfer

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 4,539

20.

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

Klaus J. Hopt

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Downloads 4,529

21.

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

John Armour and Wolf-Georg Ringe

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics

Downloads 4,330

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

Steven L. Schwarcz

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 4,258

23.

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

Paolo Davide Farah

West Virginia University (WV, USA)

Downloads 3,887

24.

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

Brian R. Cheffins and Bernard S. Black

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 3,862

25.

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

Larry Catá Backer

Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law

Downloads 3,847

26.

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

Henry Hansmann and Reinier Kraakman

Yale Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,804

27.

China's Financial System: Past, Present, and Future

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 05 Aug 2005

Working Paper Series

Franklin Allen, Jun Qian and Meijun Qian

Imperial College London, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University and Australian National University (ANU) - College of Business and Economics

Downloads 3,754

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

David B. Kopel, Carlisle E. Moody and Howard Ross Nemerov

Independence Institute, College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and Independent

Downloads 3,747

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

Jane C. Ginsburg

Columbia Law School

Downloads 3,663

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

Donald C. Clarke

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 3,585

31.

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

William W. Bratton and Joseph A. McCahery

University of Pennsylvania Law School and Tilburg University - School of Law; European Banking Center (EBC)

Downloads 3,498

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

Clark B. Lombardi and Nathan J. Brown

University of Washington School of Law and George Washington University - Department of Political Science

Downloads 3,466

33.

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

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,443

34.

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

Klaus J. Hopt

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Downloads 3,408

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

Giesela Ruhl

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Downloads 3,284

36.

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

Eddy Wymeersch

Ghent University - Financial Law Institute

Downloads 3,262

37.

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

Wouter P. J. Wils

King's College London

Downloads 3,248

38.

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

Paul M. Schwartz and Daniel J. Solove

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and George Washington University Law School

Downloads 3,196

39.

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

Neil M. Richards and Daniel J. Solove

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and George Washington University Law School

Downloads 3,183

40.

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

Han Shen

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Downloads 3,106

41.

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

Anil Hargovan and Jason Harris

University of New South Wales and University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law

Downloads 3,102

42.

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

Paul M. Schwartz and Daniel J. Solove

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and George Washington University Law School

Downloads 3,075

43.

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

Stephen M. Bainbridge

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Downloads 3,068

44.

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

Paul P. Craig

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Downloads 3,060

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

Omer Tene

International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Downloads 3,054

46.

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

David S. Law and Mila Versteeg

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 3,042

47.

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

Kevin E. Davis and Michael J. Trebilcock

New York University School of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Downloads 3,018

48.

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

Graham Greenleaf

University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law

Downloads 3,016

49.

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

John Mikhail

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 3,007

50.

Reading The Constitution in Cyberspace

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Apr 1997

Working Paper Series

Lawrence Lessig

Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,987

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