Company Law: Theories, Principles and Applications, 3rd edition

Company Law: Theories, Principles and Applications 3rd edition combines theoretical fundamentals and critical perspectives with doctrinal analysis to explain the rules, norms and assumptions underlying Australian corporations law. Features Substantially reviewed and updated to consider recent legislation and case law as well as current thinking in relation to: • concession/fiction theory; aggregate/contract-based theory; and realist/natural entity theory; • feminist perspectives on corporations and on corporate law • passive investment funds • corporate regulation • corporate collective investment vehicles • decentralised autonomous organisations • cooperatives • corporate groups • Statutory assumptions and corporate liability • corporate criminal responsibility • management vs shareholder control rights • Use of technology for corporate meetings • capital reductions, financial assistance and dividends • corporate social responsibility and the social licence to operate • definition of officer • responsibility for defective disclosure • safe harbour defence for insider trading • exercising powers for a proper purpose • fiduciary duties and conflicts of interest • reflective loss principle • behavioural finance • continuous disclosure • corporate insolvency • restructuring under part 5.3b • crowd sourced equity funding Related Titles • Fitzpatrick, Symes, Parker & Veljanovski, Business and Corporations Law , 5th ed • Graw, Whitford, Parker & Do, Understanding Business Law , 10th ed • Fisher, Taylor & Hunter, Commercial and Personal Property Law , 2nd ed —- ISBN: 9780409352733 | ISBN10: 040935273X | ISBN-13: 978-0409352733