Martin Gelter

Fordham University School of Law

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Constraining Dominant Shareholders’ Self-Dealing: The Legal Framework in France, Germany, and Italy

European Company and Financial Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2007, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 88/2007, Harvard Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper No. 18/2008
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Jan 2010
Pierre-Henri Conac, Luca Enriques and Martin Gelter
University of Luxembourg, University of Oxford Faculty of Law and Fordham University School of Law
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The Dark Side of Shareholder Influence: Toward a Holdup Theory of Stakeholders in Comparative Corporate Governance

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The Dark Side of Shareholder Influence: Toward a Holdup Theory of Stakeholders in Comparative Corporate Governance

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 096/2008, CLEA 2008 Meetings Paper, Harvard Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper No. 17/2008
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 17 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2009
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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comparative corporate governance, stakeholders, holdup, managerial autonomy, codetermination, employment law

The Dark Side of Shareholder Influence: Managerial Autonomy and Stakeholder Orientation in Comparative Corporate Governance

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 06 Mar 2009
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal Thought: American Law and Economics vs. German Doctrinalism

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The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal Thought: American Law and Economics vs. German Doctrinalism

Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2010
Kristoffel R. Grechenig and Martin Gelter
Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Fordham University School of Law
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Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Legal History, Legal Realism, Free-law movement, Legal Evolution, Utilitarianism, Europe, Germany, United States, Divergence

The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal Thought: American Law and Economics vs. German Doctrinalism

U. of St. Gallen Law & Economics Working Paper No. 25, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 14
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2010
Kristoffel R. Grechenig and Martin Gelter
Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Fordham University School of Law
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Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Legal History, Legal Realism, Free-law movement, Legal Evolution, Utilitarianism, Europe, Germany, United States, Divergence

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Report to Russian Center for Capital Market Development: Comparative Analysis on Legal Regulation of the Liability of Members of the Board of Directors and Executive Organs of Companies (English Language Version)

ECGI - Law Working Paper Series 103/2008, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 110
Number of pages: 323 Posted: 07 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems and Linia Prava
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Fordham University School of Law, Seoul National University School of Law, University of York - York Law School, European University Institute (EUI) and Linia Prava Law Firm
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Russia, company law, liability of directors and officers

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Taming or Protecting the Modern Corporation? Shareholder-Stakeholder Debates in a Comparative Light

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1669444, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 165/2010, NYU Journal of Law & Business, Vol. 7, Issue. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 01 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2014
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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Shareholder Primacy, Stakeholders, Corporate Theory, Theory of the Firm, Rathenau, Unternehmen an Sich, Interet Social, Codetermination

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Centros, the Freedom of Establishment for Companies, and the Court's Accidental Vision for Corporate Law

in: Fernanda Nicola & Bill Davies, EU Law Stories (Cambridge University Press 2017), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2564765, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 287/2015
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2017
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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freedom of establishment, European Company Law, European corporate law, regulatory competition, Daily Mail, Segers, Centros, Überseering, Inspire Art, Cartesio, European Court of Justice, company law directives

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History of Law and Economics

MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2014/5
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Apr 2014
Martin Gelter and Kristoffel R. Grechenig
Fordham University School of Law and Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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Lift Not the Painted Veil! To Whom Are Directors’ Duties Really Owed?

University of Illinois Law Review, vol. 2015, iss. 3, pp. 1069-1118, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 255/2014, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2419591
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 04 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2017
Martin Gelter and Genevieve Helleringer
Fordham University School of Law and University of Oxford - Institute of European and Comparative Law
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constituency directors, codetermination, venture capital, fiduciary duties, corporate theory, theory of the firm, board of directors, behavioral theory

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How the Old World Encountered the New One: Regulatory Competition and Cooperation in European Corporate and Bankruptcy Law

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 63/2006, Harvard Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper No. 19/2008
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 28 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2008
Luca Enriques and Martin Gelter
University of Oxford Faculty of Law and Fordham University School of Law
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Bankruptcy, Centros case, company law, corporate law, creditor protection, European Insolvency Regulation, European Union, European Community, forum shopping, insolvency, regulatory competition, Harmonization

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Comparative Corporate Governance: Old and New

Understanding the Company: Corporate Governance and Theory (Barnali Choudhury & Martin Petrin eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017), Fordham Working Paper, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 321/2016
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2017
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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Berle-Means corporation, law and finance, varieties of capitalism, holdup, human capital, shareholder activism, retail investors, occupational pension plans, PAYGO, shareholder rights

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Employee Participation in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

Forthcoming in Handbook on the Economics of Social Responsibility: Individuals, Corporations and Institutions (Lorenzo Sacconi and Giacomo Degli Antoni eds.), European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 322/2016, Fordham Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2016
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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Codetermination, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Corporate Governance, Volkswagen Emissions Scandal, Ownership Strucute, Varieties of Capitalism

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Why do Shareholder Derivative Suits Remain Rare in Continental Europe?

Brooklyn Journal of International Law, vol. 37, no. 3, 2012, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2000814, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 190/2012
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2013
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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derivative suits, nullification suits, rescission suits, shareholder litigation, predatory shareholders, abuse of law

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The Structure of Regulatory Competition in European Corporate Law

Harvard Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper Series 20/2008, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Vol. 5, pp. 247-284, 2005
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2009
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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regulatory competition, corporate law, European Union, Centros case

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The Pension System and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy

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The Pension System and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2079607, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 191/2012
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2012
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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defined benefit plans, defined contributions plans, Social Security, PAYGO, unions, human capital, firm-specific investment, corporate governance, political economy, shareholder wealth maximization, stakeholders, corporate social responsibility

The Pension System and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy

Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2013
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 05 Jun 2013
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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defined benefit plans, defined contributions plans, Social Security, PAYGO, unions, human capital, firm-specific investment, corporate governance, political economy, shareholder wealth maximization, stakeholders, corporate social responsibility

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The Subordination of Shareholder Loans in Bankruptcy

Harvard Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper Series No. 4, 1/2005, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2006
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2007
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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Close corporations, bankruptcy, subordination, equity substitution, capital structure

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Legal Liability of Directors and Company Officials Part 2: Court Procedures, Indemnification and Insurance, and Administrative and Criminal Liability (Report to the Russian Securities Agency)

Columbia Business Law Review, pp. 1-171, 2008, ECGI - Law Working Paper, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 113
Number of pages: 171 Posted: 11 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010
Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems and Linia Prava
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Fordham University School of Law, Seoul National University School of Law, University of York - York Law School, European University Institute (EUI) and Linia Prava Law Firm
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Russia, company law, liability of directors and officers, indemnification, insurance, derivative suits

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Legal Liability of Directors and Company Officials Part 1: Substantive Grounds for Liability (Report to the Russian Securities Agency)

Columbia Business Law Review, pp. 614-799, 2007, ECGI - Law Working Paper, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 112
Number of pages: 185 Posted: 11 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010
Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems and Linia Prava
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Fordham University School of Law, Seoul National University School of Law, University of York - York Law School, European University Institute (EUI) and Linia Prava Law Firm
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Russia, company law, liability of directors and officers

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Analysis on Legal Regulation of the Liability of Members of the Board of Directors and Executive Organs of Companies (as of December 2006) (Отчет о результатах сравнительного анализа правового регулирования ответственности членов органов управления хозяйственных обществ (по состоянию на Декабрь 2006 года) (Russian Language Version)

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 110 (Russian version)
Number of pages: 339 Posted: 17 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2011
Bernard S. Black, Brian R. Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems and Linia Prava
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Fordham University School of Law, Seoul National University School of Law, University of York - York Law School, European University Institute (EUI) and Linia Prava Law Firm
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Russia, company law, liability of directors and officers

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COVID-19 and Comparative Corporate Governance

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3772965, Forthcoming Journal of Corporation Law (2021), European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 563/2021
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 27 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2021
Martin Gelter and Julia M. Puaschunder
Fordham University School of Law and Harvard University
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COVID-19, corporate governance, ownership structure, varieties of capitalism, human capital, relational finance, free cash flow, nationalism, economic protectionism, inequality, climate change, stakeholder theory, shareholder primacy, evolutionary theory of corporate law, Green New Deal, behavioral

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EU Company Law Harmonization Between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism

Research Handbook on the History of Corporation and Company Law by Harwell Wells, ed., 2018, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2977500, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 355/2017
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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Freedom of Establishment, European Company Law, Harmonization, European Court of Justice, Company Law Directives, History of Corporate Law, Varieties of Capitalism, Convergence, Corporate Governance

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Subordination of Shareholder Loans from a Legal and Economic Perspective

Journal for Institutional Comparisons, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 40-47, 2007, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 13
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2008
Martin Gelter and Juerg Roth
Fordham University School of Law and Bill Isenegger Ackermann AG, Attorneys at Law
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Close corporations, bankruptcy, insolvency, equitable subordination, recharacterization, equity substitution, capital structure, MoMiG, Eigenkapitalersatz

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Mapping Types of Shareholder Lawsuits Across Jurisdictions

Research Handbook on Shareholder Litigation by Jessica Erickson, Sean Griffith, David Webber and Verity Winship, eds., 2018, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3011444, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 363/2017
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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Corporate Governance, Comparative Corporate Law, Shareholder Lawsuits, Derivative Suits, Direct Suits, Unfair Prejudice, Inquiry Proceedings, Rescission, Nullification, Courts, Discovery

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Review of Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance, by Peter A. Gourevitch and James Shinn

Independent Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, Summer 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 08 Apr 2008
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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comparative corporate governance, labor, ownership concentration, capital structure, political economy

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Правовое Регулирование Ответственности Членов Органов Управления: Анализ Мировой Практики (Legal Regulation of the Liability of Members of Management Organs: An Analysis of International Practice)

Alpina Publishers (Альпина Паблишерз), 2010
Number of pages: 335 Posted: 11 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2011
Bernard S. Black, Anastasiya Farukshina, Brian R. Cheffins, Martin Gelter, Hwa-Jin Kim, Richard Nolan, Mathias Siems and Linia Prava
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University - School of Law, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Fordham University School of Law, Seoul National University School of Law, University of York - York Law School, European University Institute (EUI) and Linia Prava Law Firm
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Whose Trojan Horse? The Dynamics of Resistance against IFRS

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, Iss. 1, pp. 89-190, 2015, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 254/2014, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2418356
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2017
Martin Gelter and Zehra G. Kavame Eroglu
Fordham University School of Law and Deakin University, Geelong, Australia - Deakin Law School
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IFRS, IAS, GAAP, international accounting, EU Company Law Directives, Fourth Directive, Seventh Directive

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Constituency Directors and Corporate Fiduciary Duties

The Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law (Andrew Gold & Paul Miller eds., Oxford University Press, 2014), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2341660
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2019
Martin Gelter and Genevieve Helleringer
Fordham University School of Law and University of Oxford - Institute of European and Comparative Law
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constituency directors, codetermination, venture capital, fiduciary duties, corporate theory, theory of the firm, board of directors

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Divergente Evolution Des Rechtsdenkens - Von Amerikanischer Rechtsökonomie Und Deutscher Dogmatik (Divergent Evolution of Legal Thought - On American Law & Economics and German Doctrinalism)

RabelsZ Bd. 72 (2008) S. 513–561
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Mar 2014
Kristoffel R. Grechenig and Martin Gelter
Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Fordham University School of Law
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Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Legal History, Legal Realism, Free-law movement, Legal Evolution, Utilitarianism, Europe, Germany, United States, Divergence

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Language, Legal Origins, and Culture before the Courts: Cross-Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe

Supreme Court Economic Review, Vol. 21, 2013, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1719183
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 05 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2014
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems
Fordham University School of Law and European University Institute (EUI)
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Cross-Citations, Supreme Courts, Legal Origins, Legal Culture, Comparative Law, Comparative Civil Procedure

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Corporate Opportunities in the US and in the UK: How Differences in Enforcement Explain Differences in Substantive Fiduciary Duties

Research Handbook on Fiduciary Law by Andrew Gold and Gordon Smith, eds. Edward Elgar. (2018), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2877205, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 346/2017
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 12 May 2020
Martin Gelter and Genevieve Helleringer
Fordham University School of Law and University of Oxford - Institute of European and Comparative Law
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Delaware, Guth v. Loft, Broz v. Cellular, Siegman v. Tristar, DGCL, Conflict Avoidance, Convergence, Bhullar v. Bhullar, Foss v. Harbottle, Fairness Test

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Risk-Shifting Through Issuer Liability and Corporate Monitoring

European Business Organization Law Review, vol. 14, pp. 497-533 (2013), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2335721, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 228/2013
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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issuer liability, securities law, securities class action, dispersed ownership, concentrated ownership, capital maintenance, fraud risk, compensation, deterrence, prospectus liability

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Corporate Governance, Corporate and Employment Law, and the Costs of Expropriation

Harvard Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper No. 29, 5/2009, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 128/2009, Review of Law and Economics, vol. 8, iss.2, 2012, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1430623
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2019
Giulio Ecchia, Martin Gelter and Piero Pasotti
University of Bologna - Department of Economics, Fordham University School of Law and University of Bologna - Department of Economics
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corporate governance, ownership structure, corporate law, employment law, minority shareholders, holdup problem, stakeholders, labor

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Networks, Dialogue or One-Way Traffic? An Empirical Analysis of Cross-Citations between Ten of Europe’s Highest Courts

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Networks, Dialogue or One-Way Traffic? An Empirical Analysis of Cross-Citations between Ten of Europe’s Highest Courts

Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI) Working Paper No. 2011/03 , Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1722721
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2012
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems
Fordham University School of Law and European University Institute (EUI)
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cross-citations, supreme courts, citation networks, judicial dialogue, network analysis, comparative law, comparative civil procedure

Networks, Dialogue or One-Way Traffic? An Empirical Analysis of Cross-Citations between Ten of Europe’s Highest Courts

Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 88-99, May 2012
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 May 2012 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2014
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems
Fordham University School of Law and European University Institute (EUI)
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cross-citations, highest courts, citation networks, judicial dialogue, network analysis, comparative law

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Tilting the Balance between Capital and Labor? The Effects of Regulatory Arbitrage in European Corporate Law on Employees

Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2010, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1595067, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 157/2010
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 24 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 27 May 2010
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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regulatory competition, codetermination, Centros, EU company law

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Addressing the Auditor Independence Puzzle: Regulatory Models and Proposal for Reform

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 53, pp. 787-827 (2020), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3476683, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 479/2019
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2020
Martin Gelter and Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez
Fordham University School of Law and Singapore Management University - School of Law
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auditing, accounting, Big 4, Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley, EU Audit Directive, EU Audit Regulation, gatekeepers, quasi-rents, auditor rotation, non-audit services, majority-of-the-minority approval, auditor compensation, transparency reports, audit firm governance

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Fiduciary Principles in European Civil Law Systems

Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller & Robert H. Sitkoff eds., 2019) , Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3142202, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 392/2018
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 12 May 2020
Martin Gelter and Genevieve Helleringer
Fordham University School of Law and University of Oxford - Institute of European and Comparative Law
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fiduciary duties, related-party transactions, corporations, duty of loyalty, French private law, German private law, Liechtenstein trust, Treuhand, agency, mandate, equity, legal families.

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Opportunity Makes a Thief: Corporate Opportunities as Legal Transplant and Convergence in Corporate Law

Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 15, iss.1, pp. 92-153 (2018), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3074537, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 378/2017
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Martin Gelter and Genevieve Helleringer
Fordham University School of Law and University of Oxford - Institute of European and Comparative Law
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Delaware, Guth v. Loft, Broz v. Cellular, Conflict Avoidance, Convergence, Bhullar v. Bhullar, Foss v. Harbottle, Fairness Test, Geschäftschancenlehre, Fiduciary Duties, Directors, Controlling Shareholders, Legal Transplants

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Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance: Introduction

Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance (Afra Afsharipour & Martin Gelter eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3725679, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper 552/2020
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2020
Afra Afsharipour and Martin Gelter
University of California, Davis - School of Law and Fordham University School of Law
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comparative corporate governance, law and finance, legal origins, convergence, corporate purpose, shareholders, stakeholders, board, shareholder litigation, derivative suits, mergers and acquisitions

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Judicial Federalism in the ECJ's Berlusconi Case: Towards More Credible Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting?

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 46, pp. 487-506, 2005, Harvard Olin Fellows' Discussion Paper No. 21/2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2008
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems
Fordham University School of Law and European University Institute (EUI)
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Company law, accounting law, financial reporting, European law, accounting fraud, corporate governance

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Citations to Foreign Courts -- Illegitimate and Superfluous, or Unavoidable? Evidence from Europe

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2014, pp. 35-85, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2330419
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2014
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems
Fordham University School of Law and European University Institute (EUI)
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Cross-Citations, Supreme Courts, Legal Origins, Legal Culture, Comparative Law, Comparative Civil Procedure

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Juristischer Diskurs und Rechtsökonomie (Legal Discourse and the Economic Analysis of Law)

Journal für Rechtspolitik 15, 3 30-41 (2007)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 05 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2014
Martin Gelter and Kristoffel R. Grechenig
Fordham University School of Law and Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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Freirechtslehre; law and economics; Methodenlehre; Public-Choice-Theorie; Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts; Rechtsevolution; Rechtsrealismus; Rechtsvergleichung; Rechtswissenschaft, europäische; Utilitarismus

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COVID-19-Shock: Considerations on Socio-Technological, Legal, Corporate, Economic and Governance Changes and Trends

2020, Proceedings of the 16th International Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, August 17-18, pp. 82-93 (2020)., Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3679326
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Oct 2020
Julia M. Puaschunder, Martin Gelter and Siegfried Sharma
Harvard University, Fordham University School of Law and Graz University of Technology
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Access to Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Insights, Comparative Law, Coronavirus, Corporations, Corporate Governance, COVID-19, Crisis, Digitalization, Digi-Disruption, Economic Growth, Healthcare, Herd Immunity, Market Disruption, Pandemics, Technology

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Abuse of Companies Through Choice of Incorporation?

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3430655, August 2019, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 473/2019
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
Martin Gelter and Lécia Vicente
Fordham University School of Law and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Abuse of Law, Centros, Überseering, Inspire Art, Polbud, Kornhaas, Regulatory Competition, Insolvencification, Regulatory Arbitrage, Internal Affairs, Pseudo-Foreign Incorporation Statutes, Cross-Border Mergers, Reverse Mergers, Cross-Border Transfer of Seat, Eu Company Law

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What Is Dead May Never Die: The UK's Influence on EU Company Law

Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 5, 2017
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Sep 2017
Martin Gelter and Alexandra Reif
Fordham University School of Law and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Business Law
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Brexit, Fifth Directive, Board Structure, Societas Europaea, European Company, Varieties of Capitalism, Legal Capital, Freedom of Establishment, Centros, Takeover Directive, IFRS, Fourth Directive, True and Fair View

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From Institutional Theories to Private Pensions

Forthcoming in Company Law and CSR: New Legal and Economic Challenges (Ivan Tchotourian ed., Bruylant 2014), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2463275
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2014
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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Corporate law theory, Corporate governance, Shareholder-stakeholder debates, Varieties of capitalism, pensions, labor and corporate governance

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Neue Rechnungslegungsnormen im Handelsrecht (New Accounting Standards in Commercial Law)

Martin Gelter, NEUE RECHNUNGSLEGUNGSNORMEN IM HANDELSRECHT, Verlag Österreich, 2001
Number of pages: 408 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2011
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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IAS, IFRS, FASB, ASB, IASB, Tax Conformity, Massgeblichkeitsprinzip, DRSC, Fourth Directive, Seventh Directive, Second Directive, ÖNORMEN, Capital Maintanance, HGB, Commercial Code, Austria, Germany

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Accounting and Convergence in Corporate Governance: Doctrinal or Economic Path Dependence?

Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance (Afra Afsharipour & Martin Gelter eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3613684, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 524/2020
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2020
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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IFRS, IASB, GAAP, SEC, international accounting, EU Company Law Directives, comparative corporate governance

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‘Useful Illegalities’ in Corporations from a Law and Economics Perspective (‘Nützliche Gesetzesverletzungen’ in Kapitalgesellschaften aus rechtsökonomischer Sicht)

Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2010, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1586535
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2010
Martin Gelter and Kristoffel R. Grechenig
Fordham University School of Law and Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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corporations, agency problems, externalities, criminal law, fines, shareholders, directors, managers, officers, knowing violations of the law

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Centros and Defensive Regulatory Competition: Some Thoughts and a Glimpse at the Data

European Business Organization Law Review, vol. 20, pp. 467-492 (2019), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper , European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 472/2019
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 12 May 2020
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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regulatory competition, insolvencification, regulatory arbitrage, Austria, Netherlands, Inspire Art

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Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement (Preface and Table of Contents)

Cambridge University Press, 2019, xxviii + 1107 pp
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Jan 2019
Pierre-Henri Conac and Martin Gelter
University of Luxembourg and Fordham University School of Law
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securities litigation, public enforcement, private enforcement, securities class actions, comparative corporate governance, capital markets law

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Securities Litigation and Enforcement in Austria

Pierre-Henri Conac and Martin Gelter (eds.), GLOBAL SECURITIES LITIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT (Cambridge University Press 2019) , Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2726661
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 12 May 2020
Martin Gelter and Michael Pucher
Fordham University School of Law and Vienna University of Economics and Business
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securities litigation, Austrian-style class actions, FMA, issuer liability, ownership structure, FMA, Vienna Stock Exchange

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The Social Representations and Legal Theory of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Big Data in Healthcare

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jun 2020
Julia M. Puaschunder and Martin Gelter
Harvard University and Fordham University School of Law
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Advancements, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Athenian city state, Code Napoléon, Corruption-free maximization of excellence and precision, Economic growth, Ethics, Healthcare, Human resemblance, Humanness, Innovation, Liability, Market disruption, Market entrance, Rational precision, Roman law, Socia

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Letting Companies Choose between Board Models: An Empirical Analysis of Country Variations

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3801196, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 573/2021
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2021
Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems
Fordham University School of Law and European University Institute (EUI)
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comparative corporate law, empirical comparative law, correspondence analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, path dependence

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On the Political Economy of the European Union

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities organized by Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery County Campus, Rockville, MD, United States, November 6-7, 2019.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 18 Oct 2019
Julia M. Puaschunder and Martin Gelter
Harvard University and Fordham University School of Law
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Ancient Athenian democracy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bicameral parliament, Big data, Electoral system, European Union, Holy Roman empire, market disruption, political economy, Populist pressures, Taxation, United States

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Die US-amerikanische LLC im Überblick (An Overview of the US Limited Liability Company)

Österreichisches Recht der Wirtschaft RdW_digitalOnly 2021/30
Number of pages: 16
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
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limited liability company, Delaware, Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act

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Alleviating An Unequal COVID-19 World: Globally Digital and Productively Healthy

Proceedings of the Unequal World Conference: On Human Development, United Nations, New York, New York, September 28-29 (2020), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3679351
Posted: 15 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2020
Julia M. Puaschunder, Martin Gelter and Siegfried Sharma
Harvard University, Fordham University School of Law and Graz University of Technology

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Coronavirus, Corporate Social Responsibility, COVID-19, digitalization, healthcare, inequality, international development, innovation, learning-by-preventing, lockdowns, economic growth theory, preventive healthcare, workforce, human capital

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Regulatory Competition in European Company Law and Creditor Protection

European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR), Vol. 7, 2006 , THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF CREDITOR PROTECTION: A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE, Horst Eidenmüller & Wolfgang Schön, eds., pp. 421-457, 2008
Posted: 19 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2008
Luca Enriques and Martin Gelter
University of Oxford Faculty of Law and Fordham University School of Law

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regulatory competition, creditor protection, EC company law, European Insolvency Regulation, forum shopping

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An Economic Analysis of Auditors' Capped Liability (Zur ökonomischen Analyse der begrenzten Haftung des Abschlussprüfers)

Die Wirtschaftsprüfung, Vol. 58, pp. 486-499, 2005
Posted: 18 Apr 2006
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law

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auditor, auditing, liability, reputation, quasi-rents