After Enron : improving corporate law and modernising securities regulation in Europe and the US / by John Armour and Joseph.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Collection of papers by leading US and European corporate law scholars analyses recent corporate governance scandals and the strategies devised by regulators to guard against future governance failures.

After Enron: improving corporate law and modernising securities regulation in Europe and the US / John Armour and Joseph A. McCahery -- The mechanisms of market efficiency twenty years later: the hindsight bias / Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman -- Taming the animal spirits of the stock markets: a behavioural approach to securities regulation / Donald C. Langevoort -- Icarus and American corporate regulation / David A. Skeel, Jr. -- Corporate governance after Enron: an age of enlightenment / Simon Deakin and Suzanne J. Konzelmann -- Financial scandals and the role of private enrollment: the Parmalat case / Guido Ferrarini and Paolo Giudici -- A theory of corporate scandals: why the US and Europe differ / John C. Coffee, Jr. -- The case for shareholder access to the ballot / Lucian Arye Bebchuck -- Rules, principles, and the accounting crisis in the United States / William W. Bratton -- The oligopolistic gatekeeper: the US accounting profession / James D. Cox -- The liability risk for outside directors : a cross-border analysis / Bernard Black, Brian Cheffins and Michael Klausner -- The legal control of directors' conflicts of interest in the United Kingdom : non-executive directors following the Higgs Report / Richard C. Nolan -- Enron and corporate governance reform in the UK and the European community / Paul Davies -- Modern company and capital market problems : improving European corporate governance after Enron / Klaus J. Hopt -- Who should make corporate law? EC legislation versus regulatory competition / John Armour -- Company and takeover law reforms in Europe : misguided harmonization efforts or regulatory competition? / Gerard Hertig and Joseph A. McCahery -- The regulatory process for securities law-making in the EU / Eilis Ferran -- EC company law directives and regulations : how trivial are they? / Luca Enriques.