Corporate Governance in Context

Introduction ; Abbreviations ; The Contributors ; I CHANGE OF GOVERNANCE IN HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE: FROM STATE TO MARKET - PATHWAYS OF CHANGE IN THE 20TH CENTURY ; 1. Change of Governance in Historic Perspective: The German Experience ; 2. Corporate Governance in the 20th Century: A View from Italy ; 3. Historical Pathways of Reform: Foreign Law Transplants and Japanese Corporate Governance ; 4. Asking the Wrong Question: Changes of Governance in Historical Perspective? ; 5. Politics on Wall Street: The Implications of Eliot Spitzer on State-Federal Relations in the Regulation of Public Corporations and Capital Markets in the United States ; 6. Scandals, Regulation, and Supervising Agencies: The European Perspective ; II CORPORATIONS: CHANGING MODELS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ; 7. European Company Law and Corporate Governance: Where Does the Action Plan of the European Commission Lead? ; 8. Changing Models in Corporate Governance - Implications of the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act ; 9. Enron and Corporate Law Reform in the UK and the European Community ; 10. Ongoing Modernization of Japanese Company Law ; 11. Japanese Perspectives, Autonomous Firms and the Aesthetic Function of Law ; 12. Corporate Governance Crises and Related Party Transactions: A Post-Parmalat Agenda ; III BUREAUCRACY AND REGULATIONS ; 13. Legal Ground Rules in Coordinated and Liberal Market Economies ; 14. Corporatist versus Market Approaches to Governance ; 15. Regulatory Paternalism: When is it Justified? ; 16. The Regulation of Regulation: Judicialization, Convergence and Divergence in Administrative Law ; 17. The Proper Role of Bureaucracy in a Modern Market Economy: The Case of Japan ; 18. The Role of Bureaucracy in Deregulation - The Case of Justice System Reform in Japan ; 19. The Transatlantic Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue ; IV ; Markets - Creation, Risks, Safeguards ; 20. Market Discipline, Information Processing, and Corporate Governance ; 21. Implementation of the Corporate Governance

Eddy Wymeersch, Professor of Commercial Law, University of Ghent