Reflections on the End of History for Corporate Law

Abstract

In this chapter we reflect on our paper ‘The End of History for Corporate Law’ (Hansmann and Kraakman, 2001), originally written for a conference at Columbia University in 1997 on a question that was then just beginning to attract substantial attention: ‘Are corporate governance systems converging?’ There can of course be as many answers to that question as there are interpretations of the question itself. At a macro level, however, it seemed to us that there was an important sense in which the answer to this question was clearly ‘yes.’ In our original paper — with its hyperbolic title and somewhat more modulated text — we sought to expound that view. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 45 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.