Introduction: A Framework for Critical Corporate Law, 1. The state’s creation of the body corporate through law and politics: a short history, 2. The Doctrine of Separate Corporate Personality, 3. Multinational Companies: Organisational structure, surplus extraction, tort and other controls, 4. Company Formation and Constitution, 5. Corporate Capacity and the Doctrine of Ultra Vires: Then, Now and How it Could be Made to Have Social value, 5. Corporate Capacity, Directors’ Authority and the Doctrine of Ultra Vires: Then, Now and How it Could be Made to Have Social value, 7. Capital in context: Issues around shares, capital maintenance and value extraction, 8. The Law of Derivative Actions and the Shareholder as Company Monitor
Biography
Lorraine Talbot is Professor of Law at the University of York. She has published in the Modern Law Review, the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and the Seattle Law Review and is author of Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century (Routledge 2013) and Great Debates in Company Law (Palgrave 2014)
