Edited by Stefan Grundmann, Professor of Transnational Private and European Business Law, European University Institute, Florence and Professor of Private Law, Business Law and Legal Theory, Humboldt University, Berlin, Florian Möslein, Chair of Civil Law, German and European Economic Law Institute for Trade, and Commercial Law, Philipps-University Marburg, and Karl Riesenhuber, Professor and Chair for Civil Law, German, and European Economic Law, Ruhr-University, Bochum

Stefan Grundmann is Professor of Law at the European University Institute, Florence, where he teaches transnational private law, business law, and legal theory. He also holds a professorship at Humboldt University, Berlin, for private and business law, and has held several international fellowships, currently as Hauser Global Law Professor at New York University. His areas of research interest include general contract law, company law, business law, corporate governance, legal theory, and European Private Law. Born in 1958 in Germany, Stefan Grundmann graduated from the Faculty of Law of Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich in 1983, where he also received his two doctorates in Law and in Philosophy. In 1989 he was awarded a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of California (Berkeley). In Halle-Wittenberg he created the first interdisciplinary University curriculum/degree in law and economics. He is co-founder and president of the steering committee of the European Law School.

Florian Möslein is Professor of Law at the Philipps University Marburg, where he teaches Contract Law, Company Law, and Capital Markets Law. In addition, he is Schumpeter Fellow at the Munich Centre on Governance (MCG) at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. He previously held positions as Professor at the University of Bremen and as Associate Professor at the University of St. Gallen. He has also held several international fellowships, currently at Stanford Law School. His areas of research interest include Corporate Governance, Takeovers and Mergers, and European Private Law. Florian Möslein graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 1998, after having received the degree licence en droit at the University of Paris in 1996. He has also studied business administration and graduated in 1997 with the degree Diplom-Kaufmann. In 1999 he was awarded with the LL.M. in International Business Law at the University of London.

Professor Karl Riesenhuber is holder of the Chair for Civil Law, German and European Commercial and Economic Law at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He previously held positions as Professor at Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) and as assistant lecturer at Cambridge University Faculty of Law. Professor Riesenhuber was Feodor-Lynen Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (1999-2001) and Official Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge (2000/2001). He practised law as attorney (Rechtsanwalt) in Berlin at Dr Bezzenberger Law Office from 1995 to 2002. Professor Riesenhuber earned his law degree (Staatsexamen/Referendarexamen) from Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg i.B. (1990) and a degree of Master of Comparative Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law (1991). He passed the Assessorexamen in Berlin in 1994.

Kern Alexander is Professor at the University of Zurich and Specialist Academic Adviser to the Committee on EU Financial Regulation of the European Parliament

Marc Amstutz is Professor of Business Law, Economic Law and Legal Theory at the University of Fribourg School of Law

Susanne Augenhofer is Assistant Professor of Civil Law and European Private Law with special reference to the consumer and competition law

Fabrizio Cafaggi is Professor of Comparative Law at European University Institute, Florence, and University of Trento

Gralf-Peter Calliess is Professor of Private Law, International, and Comparative Economic Law at the University of Bremen

Hugh Collins is Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science

Reto Cueni is Assistant to Professor Bruno S. Frey at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich

Bruno Deffains is Professor of Law and Economy at the EBS Business School, Wiesbaden

Dominique Demougin is Head of Department of Law, Governance, and Economics at the European Business School (EBS)

Horst Eidenmüller is Professor of Private Law, German, European and International Corporate Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Bruno S Frey is Professor for Economics at University of Zurich, and Research Director of the Centre for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts

Clayton Gillette is Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law at New York University School of Law

Ronald J Gilson is Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School

Fernando Gomez-Pomar is Professor of Law and Economics at Universidad Pompeu Fabra School of Law, Barcelona

Mireia Artigot i Golobardes is Professor in the Department of Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Stefan Grundmann is Professor of Private Law, German, European and International Economic Law at Humboldt University Berlin

Gerard Hertig is Professor of Law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

Klaus J Hopt is Director em. of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law

Paola Iamiceli is Professor at the University of Trento

Tatsuya Kameda is Professor at the Department of Behavioral Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

Wolfgang Kerber is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Marburg

Michael Klausner is Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

Stefan Magen is Professor of Public Law, Legal Philosophy and Economic Analysis of Law at Ruhr-University Bochum

Hans-W Micklitz is Professor of Economic Law at the Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence

Florian Möslein is Schumpeter Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin

Katharina Pistor is Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

Karl Riesenhuber is Professor of Private Law, German and European Commercial and Economic Law at Ruhr-University Bochum

Charles F Sabel is Professor of Law and Social Sciences at Columbia Law School

Robert E Scott is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

Gunnar Folke Schuppert is Research Professor for Governance, Social Science Research Center Berlin, and Professor of Political and Administrative Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin

Urs Schweizer is Professor of Economics at Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn

Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University

Gunther Teubner is Professor em. of Private Law and Legal Sociology at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Florent Thouvenin is Assistant Professor for Intellectual Property and Information Law and Co-Director of Research Center for Information Law

Stefan Wichary is Assistant at the Department of Private Law, German and European Commercial and Economic Law at Ruhr-University Bochum

Isabelle Wildhaber is Assistant Professor of Liablity and Employment Law at the University of St. Gallen

Peer Zumbansen is Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto

"As an academic discipline, governance research is certainly multi-faceted and the value of this book, (which does cite an enormous amount of research) is that, as a discipline, it should be explored from a number of differing standpoints, engendering much debate, perhaps even controversy, which is all to the good. As a work of scholarship, this book makes an important contribution to further study and analysis within this important area of law and is a great credit to the current OUP titles." - Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers