TY - BOOK AU - Kraakman,Reinier H. TI - The anatomy of corporate law: a comparative and functional approach SN - 9780198724315 (pbk.) : U1 - 346'.066 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Corporation law KW - Law KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Previous edition: 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance practices that have taken place since the previous edition. These include numerous regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the changing landscape of governance, especially in the US, with the ever more central role of institutional investors as (active) owners of corporations. The geographic scope of the coverage has been broadened to include an important emerging economy, Brazil. In addition, the book now incorporates analysis of the burgeoning use of corporate law to protect the interests of 'external constituencies' without any contractual relationship to a company, in an attempt to tackle broader social and economic problems ER -