About the AuthorReinier Kraakman is a Professor at Harvard Law School, Paul Davies is a Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Henry Hansmann is a Professor at Yale Law School, Gerard Hertig is a Professor at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Klaus J. Hopt is Director of the Max-PlanckInstitute Hamburg, Hideki Kanda is a Professor at University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, and Edward B. Rock is a Professor at University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolProduct DescriptionThis book is a concise analytical overview of the field of corporate law. The authors start from the premise that corporate (or company) law across jurisdictions addresses the same three basic agency problems: (1) the opportunism of managers vis-à-vis shareholders; (2) the opportunism ofcontrolling shareholders vis-à-vis minority shareholders; and (3) the opportunism of shareholders as a class vis-à-vis other corporate constituencies, such as corporate creditors and employees.