The multinational challenge to corporation law : the search for a new corporate personality / Phillip I. Blumberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blumberg, Phillip I., 1919-2021, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Law and legislation--United States.

International business enterprises.

International business enterprises--Law and legislation.

Corporation law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume reviews the challenge of multinational corporations to the legal systems of the world. The author argues that traditional concepts of the corporation, formulated centuries ago, no longer fully serve the needs of modern industrialized society.

Contents:

Contents; I. Historical Development; 1. The Emergence of the Corporation as a Legal Unit and the Rise of Limited Liability; 2. The Corporate Personality in the Courts; 3. The Emergence of Corporate Groups; II. Entity or Enterprise in Dealing with Corporate Groups: The American Judicial and Statutory Response; 4. Early Judicial Attempts to Adapt Entity Law to the New Economy of Corporate Groups; 5. The Increasing Acceptance of Enterprise Principles; 6. Economic Dimensions: The Role of Limited Liability; III. World Dimensions; 7. European and British Commonwealth Experience with Enterprise Law

8. National Law and Multinational Business: Enterprise Law and ExtraterritorialityIV. Jurisprudential Implications; 9. Legal Rights, Legal Responsibilities, and Recognition of the Legal Unit: Individuals and Physical Objects; 10. Legal Rights, Legal Responsibilities, and Recognition of the Legal Unit: Organizations; 11. The Jurisprudence of Enterprise Law; Conclusion; Notes; Table of Cases; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772000-5

1-280-44108-9

1-4237-6455-2

0-19-536134-2

1-60129-835-8

OCLC:

299570457