The three-legged stool of corporate governance reform

In March 1998, the London Stock Exchange issued some proposed changes to its Listing Rules. This document incorporates what has become known as the “combined Code” of corporate governance practices, a project of the Committee on Corporate Governance (“the Hampel Committee”). Article by Jayne W. Barnard (Professor of Law, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.