Corporate Governance

Marc Moore is Reader in Corporate Law, and Director of the Masters in Corporate Law (MCL) degree and the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) at the University of Cambridge. He has previously held teaching positions at University College London and the University of Bristol, and is the author of Corporate Governance in the Shadow of the State (2013). Martin Petrin is a Senior Lecturer at University College London, where he is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law. He holds an S.J.D. specializing in corporate law from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and an LL.M. from Columbia University. Martin has published widely in the area of corporate governance law. 

Part I: Introduction to corporate governance.- 1. What is corporate governance?.- 2. Corporate governance and theory of the firm.- 3. The corporate governance regulatory architecture.- Part II: Relational aspects of corporate governance: Shareholders, boards, managers and employees.- 4. Board authority and shareholders' right of intervention.- 5. Institutional investors and shareholder engagement.- 6. Corporate governance and labour.- Part III: Corporate risk management and oversight.- 7. The monitoring board and independent directors.- 8. Internal control and risk management.- Part IV: Managerial incentives and disciplines.- 9. Design and control of executive remuneration.- 10. Regulation of the market for corporate control.