Peter A Allard School of Law

Directors' Duties and Shareholders' Rights Around the World

Event Description

One of the central controversies in corporate legal scholarship is whether corporate law is converging on a "shareholder primacy" model of corporate governance. Certain scholars have argued that jurisdictions around the world have adopted a corporate law paradigm that emphasizes, if not requires, shareholder value maximization. Other scholars have argued that a variety of jurisdictions allow directors to consider broader social interests, even at the expense of shareholder wealth. What unites these arguments is an absence of systematic evidence. This presentation will discuss preliminary findings from an empirical study of directors' duties and shareholders' rights in 50 countries.

Speaker

Camden Hutchison

Camden Hutchison is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and the Director of the Centre for Business Law. His research and teaching focus on corporate transactions, comparative corporate governance, and the historical development of corporate law. He has also published on corporate taxation and competition law. His current research focuses on corporate governance and contractual negotiation in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining the law faculty, Camden earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where his dissertation examined the history of corporate regulation in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Before returning to graduate school, he practiced as a corporate associate at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he represented private equity firms and public corporations in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. Camden holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. in history from the University of Rochester.

 

 


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