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Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
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British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
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World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)

Web resources – chapter 1 - Introduction


1.1 Introduction

Corporations Act s 9
Corporations Act s 57A

1.2 Corporations compared with other business organisations

United Dominions Corp v Brian Pty Ltd (1985) 157 CLR 1
Corporations Act s 115

Corporations Regulations reg 2A.1.01

1.2.4 Limited liability
Partnership Act 1958 (Vic) s 67
                         

1.4 Corporate legislation

1.4.1 Background to Australian legislation
R McQueen, ‘An Examination of Australian Corporate Law and Regulation 1901–1961’ (1992) 15 University of NSW Law Journal 1

NSW v Commonwealth(1990) 169 CLR 482

Re Wakim; ex parte McNally (1999) 198 CLR 511

R v Hughes (2000) 74 ALJR 802; 171 ALR 155

1.6 Reforming company law
J Green, ‘Fuzzy Law: A Better Way to Stop “Snouts in the Trough”?’ (1991) 9 Company & Securities Law Journal 144

1.6.3 Other reform proposals
http://www.camac.gov.au/CAMAC/camac.nsf


1.7 Theories of corporate law

1.7.1 The corporation as an artificial entity: the concession theory
R Green, ‘Shareholders as Stakeholders: Changing the Metaphors of Corporate Governance’ (1993) 50 Washington & Lee Law Review 1409
P Mahoney, ‘Contract or Concession? An Essay on the History of Corporate Law’ (2000) 34 Georgia Law Review 873.

1.7.2 The corporation as a group of individuals: the aggregate theory
M M Blair and L A Stout, ‘Team Production Theory’ (1999) 85 Virginia Law Review 247–328

‘Symposium, Contractual Freedom in Corporate Law’ in (1989) 89 Columbian Law Review 1395

Bratton, ‘The “Nexus of Contracts” Corporation: A Critical Appraisal’ (1989) 74 Cornell Law Review 407

M Eisenberg, ‘The Conception that the Corporation is a Nexus of Contracts and the Dual Nature of the Firm’ (1999) 24 Journal of Corporate Law 819

1.7.3 The corporation as a real entity: corporate realism
H Laski, ‘The Personality of Associations’ (1915–16) 29 Harvard Law Review 405