Approaches to Corporate Law

Abstract

Corporate law can be introduced, described and presented in various ways. This Bynkershoek Research Note chooses to take various approaches to prepare the reader for engagement with the topic in introductory courses and as first contact with the more advanced stages of legal education. In this note those approaches are shortly introduced, including the private law character of corporate law, the economic approach to corporations, the business law approach, the tax law approach, the market regulation approach and the view on corporations from the perspective from the society and development. In the remainder of the average reading for courses on corporate law those perspectives return, sometimes explicitly, more often implicitly.

Bynkershoek Research Notes are short introductions to topics with the aim to instruct students in law schools, to set the agenda of further research and/or to form building blocks for subsequent publications to be used in legal practice in general.

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Keywords: comparative law, corporate law

JEL Classification: K11