1.Introduction： The evolution of the economic analysis of corporate law&Claire A.Hill and Brett H.McDonnell 1
PART Ⅰ CORPORATE CONSTITUENCIES 17
2.Director primacy&Stephen M.Bainbridge 17
3.Corporate law and the team production problem&Margaret M.Blair 33
4.The role of shareholders in the modern American corporation&D.Gordon Smith 52
5.Creditors and debt governance&Charles K.Whitehead 68
6.Employees and the boundaries of the corporation&Matthew T.Bodie 85
7.The role of the public interest in corporate law&Ian B.Lee 106
PART Ⅱ INSIDER GOVERNANCE 133
8.Fiduciary duties： The emerging jurisprudence&Claire A.Hill and Brett H.McDonnell 133
9.Empirical studies of representative litigation&Randall S.Thomas and Robert B.Thompson 152
10.The elusive quest for director independence&Lisa M.Fairfax 170
11.‘Low-cost’ shareholder activism： A review of the evidence&Fabrizio Ferri 192
12.Takeover theory and the law and economics movement&Steven M.Davido 216
13.The law and economics of executive compensation： Theory and evidence&David I.Walker 232
PART Ⅲ GATEKEEPERS 255
14.Transaction cost engineers， loophole engineers or gatekeepers： The role of business lawyers after the financial meltdown&Richard W.Painter 255
15.Credit rating agencies and regulatory reform&Aline Darbellay and Frank Partnoy 273
16.The influence of law and economics on law and accounting： Two steps forward， one step back&Lawrence A.Cunningham 298
17.The role and regulation of the research analyst&Jill E.Fisch 315
18.D&O insurance and the ability of shareholder litigation to deter&Sean J.Griffith 337
19.The influence of investment banks on corporate governance&Tamar Frankel 352
PART Ⅳ JURISDICTION 373
20.Varieties of corporate law-making： Competition， preemption， and federalism&Robert B.Ahdieh 373
21.The past and future of comparative corporate governance&Donald C.Clarke 397
PART Ⅴ NEW THEORY 419
22.Self-dealing by corporate insiders： Legal constraints and loopholes&Vladimir Atanasov， Bernard Black， and Conrad S.Ciccotello 419
23.Behavioral approaches to corporate law&Donald C.Langevoort 442
24.Market efficiency after the fall： Where do we stand following the financial crisis？&Ronald J.Gilson and Reinier Kraakman 456
Index 476