Master
2024/2025
Comparative Corporate Law
Type:
Elective course (Lawyer on the Global Financial Market)
Area of studies:
Law
Delivered by:
Higher School of Law and Administration
Where:
Higher School of Law and Administration
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
20
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Lawyer on the Global Financial Market
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The aim of the course “Comparative Corporate Law” is to critically discuss and debate the methodology of comparative legal research in corporate law, and in particular to acquire the research skills necessary to do self-conscious comparative legal research. This course examines a selection of company law topics in comparative context, drawing in particular on the laws of the UK, continental Europe (France, Germany) and the United States (in particular, Delaware).The approach taken is both functional and comparative, looking at a series of core problems with which any system of corporate law must deal, and analyzing, from a functional perspective, the solutions adopted by the systems in question.
Learning Objectives
- Course Objectives The main objectives of this course are: investigating actual corporate law problems and analyzing of different approaches to these problems solutions in Russia and foreign countries; providing students with opportunities to realize the aims of this course through the deployment of seminar presentations and discussions.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Able to collect, process and interpret data necessary for forming judgments on various types of problems based on their legal analysis
- Able to disseminate legal knowledge, advise employees of governing bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations when resolving issues from activities
- know the methods of legal monitoring of the activities of legal entities in relevant industry legislation; be able to use legal knowledge to solve socio-economic problems; own the method of comparing foreign and national law
Course Contents
- Topic 1. Corporate Law Theory
- Topic 3. Comparative Corporate Law and Legal Families, Convergence of Corporate Law
- Topic 2. Comparative Approach to Corporate Law. Why Study Comparative Corporate Law.
- Topic 4. Freedom of Incorporation. A Regulatory Competition
- Topic 6. Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance Models. Composition of the Board of Directors. Powers of Directors vs. Shareholders.
- Topic 5. The Incorporation Process and Limitations on Limited Liability. Piercing the Corporate Veil
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, & Michael Anderson Schillig. (2019). Comparative Company Law. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2227470
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Andenas,Mads, & Wooldridge,Frank. (2012). European Comparative Company Law. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.cup.cbooks.9781107407640
- Cahn, A., & Donald, D. C. (2010). Comparative Company Law : Text and Cases on the Laws Governing Corporations in Germany, the UK and the USA. Cambridge: Cambridge eText. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=324117