The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law

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Introduction: corporate legal ideas
Part I. Business Judgment and the Idea of Honesty in the Exercise of Delegated Power:
1. Business judgments: origins
2. Business judgments in UK corporate law
3. The foundations of the business judgement rule in the United States
4. The structural dissonance of Delaware's business judgment rule
Part II. The Duty of Care and the Ideas of Reward and Undertaking:
5. Origins: between laxity and terror in bailment and trusts law
6. The origins of the director's duty of care in the United States
7. The Delaware duty of care: fragments of jurisprudence
8. The duty of care in the United Kingdom: in the shadow of gross negligence
Part III. Self-Dealing and the Idea of the Corporation:
9. Conceptions of the corporation
10. The United Kingdom: contracting out of the common law
11. The United States: the paths to fairness review
Part IV. Connected Assets and the Idea of Property:
12. Connected assets law in the United Kingdom: the property institution
13. The modern UK approach and the disappearance of property
14. Connected assets law in the United States: between property and prescription
15. Explaining divergent evolution in connected assets law.

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