TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffith,Sean J.
AU  - Erickson,Jessica
AU  - Webber,David
AU  - Winship,Verity
TI  - Research handbook on representative shareholder litigation
T2  - Research handbooks in corporate law and governance
SN  - 9781786435330
AV  - K1338 RES
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
KW  - Stockholders
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
N1  - Includes index; Part I. Securities class actions -- 1. The development of securities litigation as a lawmaking partnership / Jill E. Fisch -- 2. Securities class actions and severe frauds / James J. Park -- 3. The shifting raison d'être of the Rule 10b-5 private right of action / Amanda Marie Rose -- Part II. Shareholder derivative suits -- 4. The (un)changing derivative suit / Jessica Erickson -- 5. Claim character and class conflict in securities litigation / Richard A. Booth -- 6. Illegality and the business judgment rule / Charles R. Korsmo -- Part III. Merger litigation -- Section A. Managing multijurisdictional litigation -- 7. Fighting frivolous litigation in a multijurisdictional world / Adam Badawi -- 8. Addressing the "baseless" shareholder suit : mechanisms and consequences / James D. Cox -- 9. Who collects the deal tax, where, and what Delaware can do about it / Sean J. Griffith and Anthony Rickey -- 10. Forum shopping in the bargain aisle : Wal-Mart and the role of adequacy of representation in shareholder litigation / Lawrence A. Hamermesh and Jacob J. Fedechko -- 11. Limiting litigation through corporate governance documents / Ann M. Lipton -- Section B. Judicial perspectives on shareholder litigation -- 12. Disclosure settlements in the state courts post-Trulia : practical considerations / James L. Gale -- 13. Changing attitudes : the stark results of thirty years of evolution in Delaware M&A litigation / J. Travis Laster -- 14. Appraisal rights in complete tender offers in Israel : a look into Israeli case-law / Ruth Ronnen -- Section C. Appraisal actions -- 15. Recent developments in stockholder appraisal / Charles R. Korsmo and Minor Myers -- 16. Appraisal as representative litigation / Minor Myers -- Part IV. Litigants and law firms -- Section A. Plaintiffs and law firms -- 17. Lead plaintiffs and their lawyers : mission accomplished, or more to be done? / Stephen J. Choi and A.C. Pritchard -- 18. The mimic-the-market method of regulating common fund fee awards : a status report on securities fraud class actions / Charles Silver -- 19. What do we know about law firm quality in M&A litigation? / Steven Davidoff Solomon and Randall S. Thomas -- Section B. Officers and directors -- 20. Jurisdiction over directors and officers in Delaware / Eric A. Chiappinelli -- 21. Stockholder litigation, fiduciary duties, and the officer dilemma / Megan Wischmeier Shaner -- Part V. Comparative and international shareholder litigation -- Section A. The globalization of shareholder litigation -- 22. The globalization of entrepreneurial litigation : law, culture, and incentives / John C. Coffee -- 23. The Teva case : a tale of a race to the bottom in global securities regulation / Sharon Hannes and Ehud Kamar -- Section B. Comparative shareholder litigation -- 24. A transatlantic perspective on shareholder litigation in public takeovers / Dan Awrey and Blanaid Clarke -- 25. Private ordering of shareholder litigation in the EU and the US / Matteo Gargantini and Verity Winship -- 26. Mapping types of shareholder lawsuits across jurisdictions / Martin Gelter -- 27. Securities class actions in Canada : 10 years later / Poonam Puri -- Section C. Other modes of enforcement -- 28. CSRC [China Securities Regulatory Commission] enforcement of securities laws : preliminary empirical findings / Chao Xi
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