Corporate Law Theory (Second Edition)

Author: Shi Tian-tao
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This textbook is on corporate law theory, suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students in law schools. The book is divided into 7 parts and 26 chapters, covering fundamental concepts of corporations, corporate establishment, corporate financing and finance, shareholder rights, corporate governance, corporate changes, and termination. It is a distillation of the author's years of teaching experience, with the second edition revised based on the newly implemented Corporate Law, updating and adjusting the content throughout. The book achieves a high level in three aspects: the timeliness of knowledge, the rationality of the system, and the accuracy of the content. The author explicitly states, "This is a corporate law textbook written for teaching purposes." However, the book surpasses ordinary law textbooks in terms of structural arrangement, knowledge depth, theoretical rigor, writing style, and focus on academic frontiers. It is a masterpiece crafted through years of dedicated research in corporate law combined with teaching experience. The book's fundamental positioning and ultimate goal are its focus on and discussion of China's own corporate law. It emphasizes introducing mature theories, systems, and judicial experiences from abroad, making them rational in the context of comparative law; then integrating them with China's specific corporate practices to localize them; aiming to build the fundamental principles of China's corporate law on the basis of learning from foreign theories and systems. The book stresses the foundational and systematic nature of knowledge, focusing more on guiding readers to use basic knowledge to analyze and solve specific corporate law issues, providing truly useful guidance for those engaged in corporate legal practice. In terms of its structural design, the book strives to surpass the codal textbook model, offering separate parts on corporate establishment, corporate financing and finance, shareholder rights, corporate governance, corporate changes, and corporate termination, with complete and substantial content. Additionally, a special part, "Introduction to Corporations," is included to discuss fundamental issues of corporations as well as hot topics such as "Piercing the Corporate Veil," "One-Person Corporations," and "Corporate Social Responsibility." In response to the amendments to the People's Republic of China Corporate Law in October 2005, the book has been fully updated in content and offers unique commentary on the successes and shortcomings of the new Corporate Law.