Corporate Governance Codes for the 21st Century: International Perspectives and Critical Analyses

Part I: Overview: Jean du Plessis and CK Low, Corporate Governance Codes Under the Spotlight.- Part II: Fundamental Flaws with Self-Regulation Through Voluntary Corporate Governance Codes: Beate Sjåfjell, When the Solution Becomes the Problem: The Triple Failure of Corporate Governance Codes.- Kent Greenfield, No Law?.- Jeroen Veldman, Self-regulation in International Corporate Governance Codes.- Umakanth Varottil, Corporate Governance In India: The Transition from Code to Statute.- Part III: The Specific Aims with Voluntary Corporate Governance Codes: Andrew Keay, An Analytical Study of Board Accountability in Transnational Codes of Corporate Governance.- Gill North, Corporate Sustainability Practices and Regulation: The Existing Frameworks and Best Practice Proposals.- Sandeep Gopalan, From Sustainability to Conflict Minerals: The Creeping Codification of Non-Financial Disclosure.- Barnali Choudhury, Business and Human Rights Obligations on the Continuum of Soft to Hard Law.- Matthias Casper and Niklas Gasse, Delisting Rules in the Context of Corporate Governance - Can the Protection of Shareholders be Effected by a Competition of Listing Rules or are State-made Provisions Required?.- Part IV: A Jurisdictional Analysis of Voluntary Corporate Governance Codes: Irene-Marie Esser, Corporate Governance - Soft Law Regulation and Disclosure: The Cases of the United Kingdom and South Africa.- Ingo Saenger, Disclosure and Auditing of Corporate Social Responsibility Standards - The Impact of Directive 2014/95/EU on the German Companies Act and the German Corporate Governance Code.- Junhai Liu, Globalisation of Corporate Governance Depends on Both Soft Law and Hard Law.