Mads Andenas and Frank Wooldridge, EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE COMPANY LAW Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org), 2009. lxxxvi + 561 pp. ISBN 9780521842198. £75.
| Author | Iain MacNeil |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2010.0311 |
| Published date | 01 September 2010 |
| Date | 01 September 2010 |
| Pages | 523-524 |
At the end of a decade which saw important developments in company law in the UK and EC, and a virtual transformation of the comparative debate as a result of insights derived from the “law and finance” approach, a reader might well approach a book by two established figures in the field with considerable expectations. In the main, however, those expectations are not met. While there is no doubt that the book makes a valuable contribution to comparative company law, it is rather more workmanlike than might be expected. The reader is ultimately left with the impression that, while the authors have presented a concise overview of EC and national company law, they have not engaged as extensively with the comparative dimension as might have been the case. Nor have the implications of harmonisation in its different forms and its relationship with “regulatory competition” been developed as far as they might.
In terms of scope the book deals with company law in seven European countries, namely the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Following a very brief introduction, chapter 2 discusses the impact of EC...
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