Corporate law, climate change, and financial risk -- Corporate law history, hubris, and failing to assess risk : trends from the East India Company to Kodak -- The corporate climate I : coal and politics, the Adani Group of Companies, and the emergence of stranded assets -- The corporate climate...

The ubiquity of agency costs -- Delineating agency costs -- The evitable dominance of agency cost analysis in company law -- A need for rebalance -- Corporate agency costs -- Incurring agency costs -- Resolving (front-ending) agency costs.

Individual Behaviour, Company Liability and Risk : Traditional Corporate Control Mechanisms as a Constraint -- Individual Behaviour, Company Liability and Risk : Competition Law and Regulatory Liability -- Legal Attribution and Ascription of Risk : Preventing the Company from Passing on...

Theoretical considerations -- A common law comparison : a survey of common issues -- Lessons from Australia : parameters of empirical examination -- Australian corporate insolvency : practitioner perspectives -- A profession in crisis? : fundamental conflicts in micro and macro professional...

The need for statutory derivative action and its current problems -- An empirical study of the statutory derivative action in Australia -- Rethinking the "good faith" requirement in statutory derivative action -- The "best interests of the company" requirement in statutory derivative action --...

"The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties, for example, by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims, they can also generate uncertainty. These secondary uncertainties like ones stemming from vague rights and...

Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction PART I Introductory context and principles 1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Business and human rights in Africa: legal context, challenges, and overview 1.3 Nature, aim, and scope of the book 1.4 Justification for the book 1.5...