Governing the Corporation

Dr Justin O'Brien runs the Corporate Governance Programme at the School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Wall Street on Trial, also published by John Wiley & Sons. He is currently working on a major international research project examining regulatory regime change in global financial markets, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements.

1. Governing the Corporation: Corporate Governance and Regulation in Global Markets (Justin O’Brien).

2. Restoring Trust after Recent Accountability Failures (David M. Walker).

3. Accountability in the Age of Global Markets (William J. McDonough).

4. European Responses to Corporate Governance Challenges (Alexander A. Schaub).

5. Economic Globalisation and National Corporate Governance Reform (Dermont McCann).

6. From Workers to Global Politics: How The Way We Work Provide Answers to Corporate Governance Questions (Irene Lynch-Fannon).

7. Multi-Lateral Regulatory Initiatives—A Legitimation-based Approach (George Gilligan).

8. Corporate Social Responsibility as Regulation: The Argument from Democracy (Lisa Whitehouse).

9. The Criminological Lens: Understanding Criminal Law and Corporate Governance (Laureen Snider).

10. Detecting Fraud and Managing the Risk (Nicholas M. Hodson).

11. After Enron: Corporate Governance, Creative Compliance and the Uses of Corporate Social Responsibility (Doreen McBarnet).

12. The Role of Lawyers: Hired Guns or Public Servant (Jeremy P. Carver)?

13. Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance and Parmalat: Was it a Financial Reporting Failure (Giovanni Melis and Andrea Melis)?

14. Corporate Regulation in Ireland (Paul Appleby).

15. Corporate Governance – More Than a State of Mind (Neill Buck)?

16. Redesigning Financial Regulation: Eliot Spitzer, State-Federal Relations and the Battle for Corporate Control (Justin O’Brien).

17. Public Trusteeship: The Responsibilities of Transparency and Legacy (J. Patrick Dobel).

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