Books in the European University Institute: Series A series

Frontmatter -- Introduction to Autopoietic Law -- The Unity of the Legal System -- The Law of Law -- On the Supposed Closure of Normative Systems -- Between Order and Disorder: The Game of Law -- Biological Metaphors in Legal Thought -- The Communicative Autonomy of the Legal System -- The Autonomy of Law: Two Visions Compared -- Changing Paradigms in the Sociology of Law -- Evolution of Autopoietic Law -- Perspectives on a Post-Modern Theory of Law: A Critique of Niklas Luhmann, "The Unity of the Legal System" -- Accounting for Law -- The Fact of Law -- Closure and Openness: On Reality in the World of Law -- Talking About Autopoiesis - Order From Noise? -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Name Index -- Subject Index

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Theoretical Framework and Legal Foundations -- The Legal Development of Corporate Responsibility -- The Economic Context of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Responsibility in Corporate Action: A Sociologist's View -- Chapter II. Strategies of Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility -- Corporate Social Responsibility: Interests and Goals -- Public Interest Representation: Economic and Social Policy Inside the Enterprise -- Chapter III. Directors' Duties and Liabilities -- Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Their Beneficiaries -- The Economic Functions of Corporate Liability -- Board Members' Liability for Damages -- The Private Law Enforcement of Directors' Duties -- Chapter IV. Disclosure and Social Reporting -- Self-Dealing and Use of Corporate Opportunity and Information: Regulating Directors' Conflicts of Interest -- Disclosure as Preventive Enforcement -- Disclosure, Insider Information and Capital Market Functions -- Corporate Social Reporting and Auditing: Theory and Practice -- Rescue Operations in Business Crises -- Chapter V. Outside Representation on the Boards: Conflicts of Interest -- The Enterprise as a Political System -- Dual Loyalty of Labor Representatives -- Annex -- Biographical Sketches of the Authors -- Table of Cases -- Index -- 464

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Summary Table of Contents -- Table of Contents -- Table of Cases -- Part I. Community Policy-Making and Implementation Processes -- The Political Organs and the Decision-Making Process in the United States and the European Community -- Part II. Legal Techniques for Integration -- Instruments for Legal Integration in the European Community - A Review -- Conflict of Laws as a Technique for Legal Integration -- Part III. Judicial Process -- The Judicial Branch in the Federal and Transnational Union: Its Impact on Integration -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Part One. Introduction -- Law as a Policy Instrument : Comparative Perspective -- Political Intentions and Legal Measures: The Determinants of Policy Decisions -- Part Two. Regulation -- Regulation as an Instrument of Economic Policy -- Regulation and the Crisis of Legalisation in the United States -- Part Three. Subsidies -- Subsidies as an Instrument of Economic Policy -- State Aids: Their Field of Operation and Legal Regime -- Part Four. The Public Sector -- The Public Sector as Object and Instrument of Economic Policy -- Public Enterprises and Economic Policy: A Comment -- Part Five. Comparative Legal Systems -- The Influence of Legal Systems on Modes of Implementation of Economic Policy -- Socialism, Legalisation and Delegalisation -- Part Six. The Time Element -- Short and Long-Term Policy Objectives and the Choice of Instruments and Measures -- Temporal Pluralism and Legal Relativism Contribution to the Study of De-Legalisation -- Part Seven. Private Ordering -- Economic Policy: State and Private Ordering -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Index