This course will examine corporate governance from a comparative perspective, focusing primarily on UK and the US. It will provide students with a fundamental understanding of the legal rules and market pressures that determine the balance of decision-making power within mainly public companies. It will examine and compare the paradigms of corporate governance, the uniqueness of corporate law making, shareholders’ rights of intervention in corporate decision-making, the role of the board, non-executive directors, institutional investors and shareholder activism, board monitoring, constraints on executive remuneration and the different approaches to the design and control of executive remuneration, corporate and social reporting, board responsibilities and the topical issue of diversity, among others.
NCA equivalence:
Terms Offered
Winter 26
3 credits
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