International Corporate Law Annual (International Corporate Law)

350 Pages·2003·1.43 MB·English

by  Fiona Macmillan

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INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE LAW
ANNUAL
VOLUME 2 · 2002
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International Corporate Law
Annual
VOLUME 2 · 2002
Edited by
FIONA MACMILLAN
Professor ofLaw, Birkbeck College,
University ofLondon
OXFORD AND PORTLAND, OREGON
2003
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Members of the Advisory Committee of International Corporate Law ix
Contributions to the Next Volume of International Corporate Law xi
PART I
1. Globalisation ofCorporate Regulation and Corporate
Citizenship 3
JOHN BRAITHWAITE andPETER DRAHOS
2. Enterprises and the Constitution ofthe World Economy 45
JEAN-PHILIPPE ROBÉ
3. The Juridical Paradox ofthe Corporation 65
RICHARD TUDWAY
4. Towards Ethics for the Corporation 91
SALLY WHEELER
5. The European Union: Promoting a Framework for Corporate
Social Responsibility 123
JO HUNT
6. The Relative Importance ofthe Statutory Derivative Action in
Australia 141
STEPHEN BOTTOMLEY
7. Privatisation and the Challenge ofCorporate Governance in Nigeria 167
ADEDEJI ADEKUNLE
8. Importing Law Reform: Vietnamese Company Law as a Case Study 185
JOHN GILLESPIE
9. New Business Strategies for Japanese Corporations: Live or Let Die? 229
JUNKO UEDA
10. CLERP and its Impact on Australian Futures Regulation 249
RASIAH GENGATHAREN
11. Multinational Enterprises, the World Trade Organisation, and the
Protection ofthe Environment 279
FIONA MACMILLAN
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vi Contents
PART II—COUNTRY REPORTS
12. Suing Multinational Corporate Groups for Torts in the Wake of
the LubbeCase – A Comment 313
ALEX TAWANDA MAGAISA
13. Developments in French Company Law 323
YVES CHAPUT
14. Recent Developments in the Nigerian Capital Market 329
DESMOND GUOBADIA
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List of Contributors
ADEDEJI ADEKUNLE is Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies
STEPHENBOTTOMLEY is Professor ofCommercial Law and Director ofthe
Centre ofCommercial Law at the Australian National University
JOHNBRAITHWAITE is Professor of Law in the Research School of Social
Sciences at the Australian National University
YVESCHAPUT is Professor ofLaw at Université de Paris I
PETER DRAHOS is Professor ofLaw in the Research School ofSocial Sciences
at the Australian National University
RASIAHGENGATHAREN is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Western
Australia
JOHNGILLESPIE is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Deakin University, Australia
DESMOND GUOBADIA is a Partner in The Law Union, Lagos, and formerly a
Senior Lecturer in Law at the University ofLagos
JO HUNT is a Lecturer in Law at CardiffUniversity
FIONAMACMILLAN is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of
London
ALEXTAWANDAMAGAISA is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Doctoral
Candidate in the School ofLaw at the University ofWarwick
JEAN-PHILIPPE ROBÉ is the European Partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher
LLP, Paris
RICHARD TUDWAY is at the Centre for International Economics, London.
He can be contacted at [email protected]
JUNKO UEDA is Professor ofLaw at Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan
SALLY WHEELER is Professor of Corporate Law at Birkbeck College,
University ofLondon
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Members of the Advisory Committee
of International Corporate Law
Professor Terence Daintith, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of
London
Judith Freedman, London School ofEconomics, University ofLondon
Professor Ameze Guobadia, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,
Lagos
Professor Michiyo Hamada, School ofLaw, Nagoya University
Professor David Millon, School ofLaw, Washington and Lee University, Virginia
Professor Harry Rajak, Centre for Legal Studies, Sussex University
Professor Paul Redmond, Faculty ofLaw, University ofNew South Wales
Professor Mitsumasa Tanabe, School ofLaw, Nagoya University
Professor André Tunc, Centre for Comparative Law, University ofParis
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