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Professor John Armour
Lovells Professor of Law and Finance Email:  Click here for Personal home page Click here for details on SSRN |
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- ECGI Fellow (2010) -
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John Armour was appointed to the Lovells Professorship in Law and Finance in
the Faculty of Law in association with Oriel College on 1 July 2007, having
previously been a University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity
Hall at Cambridge University. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of
Oxford before completing his LLM at Yale Law School and taking up his first
post at the University of Nottingham. He has held visiting posts at various
institutions including Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Bologna,
and Columbia Law School.
He has published widely in the fields of company law, corporate finance, and
corporate insolvency. His main research interest lies in the integration of
legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on the impact on the
real economy of changes in the law governing insolvency and company law. He
has been involved in policy related projects commissioned by the Department
of Trade and Industry, the Financial Services Authority, and the Insolvency
Service.
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Research Interests |
 Company law
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| Corporate finance
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| Corporate insolvency
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ECGI Working Papers (Click title for more details) |
| Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the UK and US ECGI Finance Working Paper 234/2009 February 2009
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| Is Delaware Losing Its Cases? ECGI Law Working Paper 151/2010 April 2010
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| Law and Financial Development: What We Are Learning from Time-Series Evidence ECGI Law Working Paper 148/2010 March 2010
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| The Rise and Fall (?) of Shareholder Activism by Hedge Funds ECGI Law Working Paper 136/2009 September 2009
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| Agency Problems, Legal Strategies and Enforcement ECGI Law Working Paper 135/2009 November 2009 This article is the second chapter of the second edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach,” by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda and Edward Rock (Oxford University Press 2009).
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| The Essential Elements of Corporate Law ECGI Law Working Paper 134/2009 November 2009 This article is the first chapter of the second edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda and Edward Rock (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence From a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor and Worker Protection ECGI Law Working Paper 129/2009 July 2009  Winner of the 2010 Allen & Overy Law Prize (Best paper in the Law Working Paper series)
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| Private Enforcement of Corporate Law: An Empirical Comparison of the UK and US ECGI Law Working Paper 120/2009 February 2009
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| Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis ECGI Law Working Paper 108/2008 May 2008 Winner of the 2009 ECGI Law Prize (Best paper in the Law series)
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| Law, Finance, and Politics: The Case of India
ECGI Law Working Paper 107/2008 April 2008
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| Enforcement Strategies in UK Corporate Governance: A Roadmap and Empirical Assessment ECGI Law Working Paper 106/2008 May 2008
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| Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship ECGI Law Working Paper 105/2008 May 2008
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| The Eclipse of Private Equity ECGI Law Working Paper 082/2007 April 2007
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| Who Writes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why? - The Peculiar Divergence of US and UK Takeover Regulation ECGI Law Working Paper 073/2006 September 2006
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| Who Should Make Corporate Law? EC Legislation versus Regulatory Competition ECGI Law Working Paper 054/2005 June 2005
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