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Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda and Edward Rock, The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, 2nd edition (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2009) xix + 315 pp. + 6 pp. index, hardback ISBN: 978-0-19-956583, paperback ISBN: 978-0-19-956584
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R. Kraakman et al., The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2004), reviewed for this journal by J. Armour at 6 EBOR (2005) pp. 497–504.
E.g., R. La Porta, F. Lopes-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer and R.W. Vishny, ‘Investor Protection and Corporate Governance’, 58 Journal of Financial Economics (2000) p. 3; M.J. Roe, Political Determinants of Corporate Governance (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2003); R.G. Rajan and L. Zingales, ‘The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Developments in the Twentieth Century’, 69 Journal of Financial Economics (2003) p. 5.
D. Skeel, ‘Corporate Anatomy Lessons’, 113 Yale Law Journal (2004) p. 1519, at p. 1520.
In the acknowledgements to the second edition the authors recognise their debt to those providing comment on the first edition, making particular reference to the review by Skeel supra n. 4.
See, e.g., the review of the first edition by L. Enriques, 52 American Journal of Comparative Law (2004) p. 1011.
Criticisms of the discussion of disclosure in the first edition were made by John Armour in his review for this journal: 6 EBOR (2005) p. 497, at p. 501.
This criticism was made most forcefully by Skeel, supra n. 4, at pp. 1550–1559.
Skeel, supra n. 4, at pp. 1562–1569.
For example, the authors do not address the issues as they affect developing jurisdictions, a criticism made by Skeel, supra n. 4, at pp. 1569–1577.
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Payne, J. The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach. Eur Bus Org Law Rev 11, 477–482 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1566752910300085
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