Corporate Governance Codes for the 21st Century

Part I. Overview

1. Corporate Governance Codes Under the Spotlight
Jean J. du Plessis, Chee Keong Low

Part II. Fundamental Flaws with Self-regulation Through Voluntary Corporate Governance Codes

2. When the Solution Becomes the Problem: The Triple Failure of Corporate Governance Codes
Beate Sjåfjell

3. No Law?
Kent Greenfield

4. Self-regulation in International Corporate Governance Codes
Jeroen Veldman

5. Corporate Governance in India: The Transition from Code to Statute
Umakanth Varottil

Part III. The Specific Aims with Voluntary Corporate Governance Codes

6. An Analytical Study of Board Accountability in Transnational Codes of Corporate Governance
Andrew Keay

7. Corporate Sustainability Practices and Regulation: Existing Frameworks and Best Practice Proposals
Gill North

8. From Sustainability to Conflict Minerals: The Creeping Codification of Non-financial Disclosure
Sandeep Gopalan

9. Hardening Soft Law Initiatives in Business and Human Rights
Barnali Choudhury

10. Delisting Rules in the Context of Corporate Governance: Can the Protection of Shareholders Be Effected by a Competition of Listing Rules or Are State-Made Provisions Required?
Matthias Casper, Niklas Gasse

Part IV. A Jurisdictional Analysis of Voluntary Corporate Governance Codes

11. Corporate Governance: Soft Law Regulation and Disclosure—The Cases of the United Kingdom and South Africa
Irene-Marie Esser

12. Disclosure and Auditing of Corporate Social Responsibility Standards: The Impact of Directive 2014/95/EU on the German Companies Act and the German Corporate Governance Code
Ingo Saenger

13. Globalisation of Corporate Governance Depends on Both Soft Law and Hard Law
Junhai Liu

Keywords: Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Corporate Social Responsibility