1: Corporate Purpose, Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue - Introduction 2: Corporate Purpose and Stakeholder Value - Historical, Economic and Comparative Law Remarks on the Current Debate, Legislative Options and Enforcement Problems 3: Corporate purpose: theoretical and empirical foundations/confusions 4: US ESG Regulation in Transnational Context 5: Stakeholder Governance Models and Corporate Interests Experiences from Germany 6: Corporate Purpose: The US Discussion and the Restatement of the Law of Corporate Governance 7: ESG Regulation, CSR and Corporate Purpose - A UK perspective 8: ESG and the Ethical Dimension 9: Corporate Purpose in the United States, 1800-2000 10: Corporate Purpose and the Blurred Boundaries of Internal and External Governance 11: Leading Wherever They Want? CSR, ESG and Directors' Duties 12: Stewardship and ESG in Europe 13: The French

Jens-Hinrich Binder has been Professor of Private Law, Corporate, Banking and Securities Law at Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen since 2013. He is also Visiting Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, was a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and is a member of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute. He has written extensively in the areas of corporate and financial law, and has advised numerous German and European institutions in these fields. He is co-editor and serves on the editorial board of two leading German banking law journals. Thilo Kuntz is Professor (chair) in Private law, Commercial and Corporate law, and Managing Director of the Institute of Corporate Law at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. He has held visiting positions at Notre Dame Law School and UCLA School of Law. His research focuses on fiduciary law, corporate law, and legal theory. Kuntz has edited and co-edited several books on Transnational Fiduciary Law, ESG, and, with OUP, Methodology in Private Law Theory (2024), and has written extensively in the areas of corporate law and governance and in capital markets regulation, in German and in English. Klaus J. Hopt is Professor and Director (emeritus) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; Dr.h.c.mult. (Brussels, Louvain, Paris, Athens, Tiflis), National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He has held visiting professorships at University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Kyodai, Todai. He has written extensively in the areas of corporate law and governance and was advisor to the European Commission, international banks and the German legislators and Federal Constitutional Court.

Landmark legal and policy analysis of recent controversial developments in corporate governance and social responsibility in both US and EU Treats corporate purpose, CSR and ESG instead of focusing on just one topic and neglecting important overlaps with the other two Drawing on the expertise of scholars from both the EU and the US, this volume presents an in-depth comparative and interdisciplinary analysis