Challenging borders in business law
Subtitle: the scholarship of Claire Moore Dickerson
By: edited by Dr. Janis Sarra
Publisher: University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Vancouver, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 828
ISBN-13: 9780888651525
Subjects: Commercial law; Business enterprises; Law and legislation; Corporate culture; Human rights
Description: "This collection of the scholarship of Claire Moore Dickerson reflects the breadth and depth of her research in the United States and Africa, principally Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Senegal. Professor Claire Moore Dickerson is Senator John B. Breaux Professor Emerita of Business Law at Tulane University Law School, United States, and permanent visiting professor at the University of Buea in Cameroon. Professor Dickerson's research interests include the application of socioeconomic principles to business-related areas of law, with a particular focus on standards of performance and the business laws and norms of emerging nations. The text contains introductions to the articles by eight leading corporate law scholars, who offer insights regarding the profoundly important contributions of Professor Dickerson to law and public policy"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Terry O'Neill; title: Transnational codes of conduct through dialogue : levelling the playing field for developing-country workers -- -- Introduction / -- Kellye Testy; title: Human rights : the emerging norm of corporate social responsibility --; title: Labor and finance as inevitably transnational globalization demands a sophisticated and transnational lens --; title: Sex and capital : what they tell us about ourselves -- -- Introduction / -- Lynne Dallas; title: Feminism and human rights -- -- Introduction / -- Lynne Dallas; title: Ozmandias as community project : managerial/corporate social responsibility and the failure of transparency -- -- Introduction / -- Janis Sarra; title: From behind the looking glass : good faith, fiduciary duty & permitted harm --; title: Cycles and pendulums: good faith, norms, and the commons --; title: Bracketed flexibility : standards of performance level the playing field ---- Introduction /-- Cheryl Wade.; title: The Cameroon experience under OHADA : business organizations in a developing economy --; title: Informal-sector entrepreneurs, development and formal law : a functional understanding of business law -- -- Introduction / -- Cynthia Williams; title: Culture and trans-border effects : northern individualism meets third-generation human rights --; title: The future of international law and development : flying under the radar -- -- Introduction / -- Janis Sarra; title: Fairness and formal laws in the informal sector : the example of Cameroon --; title: Bringing formal business laws to Cameroon's informal sector : lessons and cautions from the tax law example -- -- Introduction / -- Martha Tumnde; title: Harmonizing business laws in Africa : OHADA calls the tune --; title: Le droit de l'OHADA dans les états anglophones --; title: OHADA on the ground : harmonizing business laws in three dimensions --; title: OHADA's proposed uniform act on contract law ---- Introduction /-- Faith Stevelman.; title: Political corruption : free-flowing opportunism -- -- Introduction / -- Faith Stevelman; title: Corporations as cities : targeting the nodes in overlapping networks -- -- Introduction / -- Cheryl Wade; title: Interested directors of New York corporations and the burden of proof --; title: Is it appropriate to appropriate corporate concepts : fiduciary duties and the revised Uniform Partnership Act --; title: Equilibrium destabilized : fiduciary duties under the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act --; title: Closing remarks : serial killings of communications: dumbing-down of information analysis: the Internet and its larger impact --; title: GATT : fool's goal? --; title: Spinning out of control : the virtual organization and conflicting governance vectors.