Using a panel data set covering a range of developed and developing countries, we show
that common‐law systems were more protective of shareholder interests than civil‐law ones …

Recent initiatives in a number of countries have sought to promote entrepreneurship through
relaxing the legal consequences of personal bankruptcy. Whilst there is an intuitive link, …

… John Armour … John Armour and Luca Enriques—have literally made the Third Edition possible
after roughly the same number of years that separated the First and Second Editions. John …

A distinguishing feature of the so-called" Anglo-American" system of corporate governance
is that share ownership in public corporations is dispersed. The authors of the leading …

Must policymakers seeking to replicate the success of Silicon Valley's venture capital market
first copy other US institutions, such as deep and liquid stock markets? Or can legislative …

The forthright brand of shareholder activism hedge funds deploy emerged by the mid-2000s
as a major corporate governance phenomenon. This Article explains the rise of hedge fund …

The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation of financial institutions
and markets, and prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial …

Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease with a strong genetic component. We
analyzed the genomic copy number polymorphism of the β-defensin region on human …

Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease with a prevalence of 2–3% in individuals
of European ancestry 1 . In a genome-wide search for copy number variants (CNV) using a …

Legal services are traditionally provided by highly-skilled humans-that is, lawyers. During
the past two decades, the costs of legal services have risen significantly.'At the same time, …