Prof David Kershaw

Edmund-Philipp Schuster

This course is available on the Executive Master of Laws (ELLM). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

Available to Executive LLM students only. This course will be offered on the Executive LLM during the four year degree period. The Law School will not offer all Executive LLM courses every year, although some of the more popular courses may be offered in each year, or more than once each year. Please note that whilst it is the Law School's intention to offer all Executive LLM courses, its ability to do so will depend on the availability of the staff member in question. For more information please refer to the Law School website. 

This course will focus on topical issued in corporate governance, including: the distribution of corporate power between the managers and shareholders, board composition regulation, modes of ownership and ownership structures, shareholder activism and corporate short-termism, with a particular focus on hedge fund activism, regulation of proxy advisers, shareholder empowerment and firm value, executive remuneration, corporate purpose and the shifting ESG focus of corporate governance regulation. 

24-26 hours of contact time.

Students will have the option of completing a formative assessment set by their teacher. 

Reading will be prescribed for each seminar. Preliminary reading can be found in C. Gerner-Beuerle, Comparative Company Law (2019);  D. Kershaw, Company Law in Context (2012),  R. Kraakman et al, The Anatomy of Corporate Law (3rd edition 2017).

Oral examination (100%).