David Kershaw

London School of Economics - Law School

Dean and Professor of Law

Houghton Street

London WC2A 2AE, WC2A 2AE

United Kingdom

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

  • London School of Economics - Law School

  • European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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1.

Hostile Takeovers and the Non-Frustration Rule: Time for a Re-Evaluation

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 19/2016
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Dec 2016
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Between Law and Markets: Is There a Role for Culture and Ethics in Financial Regulation?

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Between Law and Markets: Is There a Role for Culture and Ethics in Financial Regulation?

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 14/2012
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2013
Dan Awrey, Sir William Blair, Sir William Blair and David Kershaw
Cornell Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute, Queen Mary University of LondonQueen Mary University of London - Centre for Commercial Law Studies and London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Culture, ethics, finance, financial regulation, process-oriented regulation, corporate governance

Between Law and Markets: Is There a Role for Culture and Ethics in Financial Regulation?

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 38, p. 191, 2013
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2013
Dan Awrey, Sir William Blair, Sir William Blair and David Kershaw
Cornell Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute, Queen Mary University of LondonQueen Mary University of London - Centre for Commercial Law Studies and London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Delaware, Journal, Corporate, Law, Culture, Ethics

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The Rule in Foss v Harbottle is Dead; Long Live the Rule in Foss v Harbottle

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 5/2013
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2014
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 4/2019, Forthcoming, American Journal of Comparative Law, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 616/2021
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 02 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
David Kershaw and Edmund Schuster
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and London School of Economics - Law School
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Corporate Law, Law and Economics

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Is the Board Neutrality Rule Trivial? Amnesia About Corporate Law in European Takeover Regulation

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 3/2011
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 04 May 2011
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, David Kershaw and Matteo Alfredo Solinas
University College London - Faculty of Laws, London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law
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Management Insulation and Bank Failures

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 345/2013
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2021
Daniel Ferreira, David Kershaw, Tom Kirchmaier and Edmund Schuster
London School of Economics - Department of Finance, London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance and London School of Economics - Law School
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Corporate Governance, Bank Bailouts

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Corporate Law and Self-Regulation

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 5/2015
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2015
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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The Path of Fiduciary Law

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 6/2011
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 05 Aug 2011
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Consequential Responsibility for Client Wrongs: Lehman Brothers and the Regulation of the Legal Profession

HLS Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2014-13
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 Feb 2014
David Kershaw and Richard Moorhead
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and Exeter Law School, University of ExeterCentre for Ethics and Law, Faculty of Laws, UCL London
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The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 15/2018
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Jul 2018
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Designing Ethics Indicators for Legal Services Provision

UCL Centre for Ethics and Law, Working Paper No. 1
Number of pages: 149 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2014
Richard Moorhead, Victoria Hinchly, Christine Parker, David Kershaw and Soren Holm
Exeter Law School, University of ExeterCentre for Ethics and Law, Faculty of Laws, UCL London, University of Wales, Cardiff - Department of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and The University of Manchester - Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics (IMLAB)
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ethics, lawyers, legal services, professional ethics, regulation, empirical

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Revolutionary Amnesia and the Nature of Prerogative Power

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper 9/2020
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2021
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Involuntary Creditors and the Case for Accounting-Based Distribution Regulation

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 16/2007
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Dec 2007
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Excluded Categories of Prerogative Power: An Idea that Never Was

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 22/2023
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Jun 2023
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Delaware's Fiduciary Imagination: Going-Privates and Lord Eldon's Reprise

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 6, 2021, 1670, LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 20/2021
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 10 Dec 2021
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Where is the Care in Caremark? 

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Where is the Care in Caremark? 

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 836/2025
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 28 Mar 2025
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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Corporate law, duty of care, Caremark duties, corporate legal legitimacy

Where is the Care in Caremark?

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 9/2025
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 16 Apr 2025
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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corporate law, directors' duties, duty of care, corporate governance, Delaware law

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Lost in Translation: Corporate Opportunities in Comparative Perspective

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 603-627, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
David Kershaw
London School of Economics - Law SchoolEuropean Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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