Corporate liability for insider trading
Corporate Liability for Insider Trading examines the reasons why there have been no successful criminal prosecutions, or successful contested civil proceedings, against corporations for insider trading, and analyses the various rationales for prohibiting insider trading. It revi…
The author explains why wrap contracts were created, how they have developed, and what this means for society. The book uses hypotheticals, cases, and real world examples. She discusses court decisions and provides summary critiques to go with these. In addition, she provides do…
This collection of essays, derived from an international workshop, explores the significance of implicit understandings and tacit expectations of the parties to different kinds of contractual agreements, ranging from simple discrete transactions to long-term associational agreem…
In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. This title confronts the leading interpretive theories of contract and demonstrates their interpretive doctrinal failures.
Liberal theory of contract is traditionally associated with the view according to which contract law can be explained simply as a mechanism for the enforcement of promises. The book bucks this trend by offering a theory of contract law based on a careful philosophical investigat…
"Long a major element of classical studies, the examination of the laws of the ancient Romans has gained momentum in recent years as interdisciplinary work in legal studies has spread. Two resulting issues have arisen, on one hand concerning Roman laws as intellectual achievemen…
