Corporate law history

Since the dominant corporate ideology ofshareholder primacy is unlikely to be undone, its success represents the end of history for corporate law.
The ideology of shareholder primacy is likely to press all major jurisdictionstoward similar rules of corporate law and practice.

European company law is the part of European Union law which concerns the formation, operation and insolvency of companies (or corporations) in the European Union.
The EU creates minimum standards for companies throughout the EU, and has its own corporate forms.

The history of corporate law in the United States concerns the development of the corporation, primarily as a business organization, under the different United States corporate law, including:

In 1837, Connecticut adopted a general corporation statute that allowed for the incorporation of any corporation engaged in any lawful business. Delaware did not enact its first corporation law until 1883.
Bank of the United States v.
Deveaux, 9 U.S. 61 (1809) corporations have capacity to sue.
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