The Origins of Company Law

Victoria Barnes is Reader in Commercial Law at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Jonathan Hardman is Lecturer in International Commercial Law at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Introduction
Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Jonathan Hardman (University of Edinburgh, UK)

1. When did English Company Law Begin?
Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Sally Wheeler (Birkbeck, University of
London, UK)

2. On Mistakes and Trajectories: Using History in Normative Company Law
Jonathan Hardman (University of Edinburgh, UK)

3. New Approaches in Corporate Law History: History as a Resource for Navigating Uncertain Times
Sarah Wilson (University of York, UK)

4. The Unexpected Origins of the US Limited Liability Partnership
Harwell Wells (Temple University, USA)

5. Upending the State’s Power to Regulate Corporate Separateness
Robert B Thompson (Georgetown University, USA)

6. Salomon and Sequana: The Central Significance of Separate Legal Entity
Susan Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

7. Three Regimes: Corporations and Regulation in US History
Naomi R Lamoreaux (University of Michigan, USA)

8. Early American Corporations and the Public Purpose
Eric Hilt (Wellesley College, USA)

9. Capitalism as Personal: Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd (1881-1926)
Lorraine Talbot (University of Birmingham, UK)

10. The Corporate Share: From Membership to Financial Interest to Contractual Design
Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

11. Natural Unity? The Origins of the Principle of Inseparability of Voting Rights from Shares across Jurisdictions
Jennifer Trinks (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany)

12. From Managerialism to Shareholder Primacy: The Role of the Cohen Committee and the Bank of England
Andrew Johnston (University of Warwick, UK)

13. ‘A Few Pike in a Trout River’? Hostile Take-Over Bids and Dividend Restraint: The Debate in Government in the 1950s
Neil Rollings (University of Glasgow, UK)

14. The Right to Repose in Peace: The Making of Modern Company Law
Paddy Ireland (University of Bristol, UK)

15. Epilogue
Victoria Barnes (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Jonathan Hardman (University of Edinburgh, UK)