Common law

About: Common law is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 30135 publications have been published within this topic receiving 280701 citations. The topic is also known as: judicial precedent & judge-made law.

The Evolution of EU Law

Abstract: The Nature of the Community: Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy The Institutional Development of the EU: A Constitutional Analysis The EU as a 'Layered' International Organisation: Institutional Unity in Disguise External Relations and External Competence: The Emergence of an Integrated Policy Direct Effect, Supremacy and the Nature of the Legal Order Article 177 in Social and Political Context European Administrative Law and the Global Challenge Remedies for Breaches of EC Law in National Courts: Legal Variation and Selection The European Court of Justice The Constitution of the Common Market Place: The Free Movement of Goods The Free Movement of Persons and Services EMU Revisited: Are We Making a Constitution? What Constitution Are We Making? EC 'Social' Policy The Principle of Equal Treatment: From Market Unifier to Fundamental Right? From the Margins to the Centre: Education and Training Law and Policy Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights: Evolving Formalism Regional policy: An Evolutionary Perspective Inhabitants in the Field of EC Environmental Law Consumer Policy Community, State and Market Governance and the Single European Market

Government ownership and corporate governance: Evidence from the EU.

Abstract: The ongoing global financial crisis has led to the largest increase in state intervention since the Great Depression. Direct government ownership in publicly-traded corporations has increased dramatically since 2008. How will this increase in public ownership affect the governance of these erstwhile private companies? We examine the impact of government ownership on corporate governance using a sample of firms from the European Union, a region that is relatively familiar with active government participation. Our main finding is that government ownership is associated with lower governance quality. We further show that while government intervention is negatively related to governance quality in civil law countries, it is positively related to governance quality in common law countries. Finally, we find that the preferential voting rights of golden shares are especially damaging to governance quality.

Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy

Abstract: Breaking out : the proliferation of actors in the international system / Anne-Marie Slaughter -- Transnational advocacy networks and the social construction of legal rules / Kathryn Sikkink modern law as a secularized and global model : implications for the sociology of law / Elizabeth Heger Boyle and John W. Meyer -- What institutional regimes for the era of internationalization? / Robert Boyer -- Between liberalism and neoliberalism : law's dilemma in Latin America / Jeremy Adelman and Miguel Angel Centeno -- Legal education and the reproduction of the elite in Japan / Setsuo Miyazawa with Hiroshi Otsuka -- Cultural elements in the practice of law in Mexico: informal networks in a formal system / Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Rodrigo Salazar -- The discovery of law : political consequences in the argentine case / Catalina Smulovitz -- Hybrid(ity) rules : creating local law in a globalized world / Heinz Klug -- Legitimating the new legal orthodoxy / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth.