讲座题目：Global Challenges to Company Law: From Shareholder Value to Sustainability?
讲座嘉宾：Andrew Johnston, 英国谢菲尔德大学法学院公司法和公司治理教授
讲座时间：2017年10月23日10:20-11:30
讲座地点：青岛校区振声苑E204
讲座主持：沈伟教授
支持单位：康桥律师事务所
讲座嘉宾简介：
Andrew Johnston is Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance at the School of Law at the University of Sheffield and a member of the Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART) Project (uio.no/smart), which is based at the University of Oslo. He is also a research associate at the University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research, a member of the GOODCORP Research Network, and an Associate Fellow, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI). Recently he has been a visiting professor at Mines ParisTech and Queensland University of Technology. In the past, he has held positions at the Universities of Queensland, Cambridge and Warsaw.
His current research interests lie in the intersection of corporate governance, law, and heterodox and institutional economics. Recent papers have examined responses to the financial crisis, including the cap on bonuses in financial institutions, regulation of hedge funds and repo markets, the proposed amendments to the Shareholder Rights Directive, and the European Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies. As part of the Sustainable Companies project, he worked with Beate Sjåfjell, David Millon and others on an analysis of the possibilities of furthering sustainability through corporate law. In other work, he has offered a critical appraisal of Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives from both economic and sustainability perspectives, and explored comparative takeover regulation. In 2009, he published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled EC Regulation of Corporate Governance which emphasised the important role of European law in sustaining and encouraging employee participation in the face of the drive for shareholder primacy.
讲座主题简介：
This paper looks at the historical transformation of UK corporate governance from managerialism to shareholder value. It then examines some of the failings of the current system, such as short-termism and unsustainability, before exploring some of the solutions to these problems that are currently being debated in the UK and elsewhere.
