Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland,Research Centre for Business Law, New Zealand. Charles Rickett is Dean of the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

The papers collected in this volume are all weighty pieces, fully researched, informative and thought-provoking. In his wildest dreams, Mr. Salomon could never have contemplated such immortality. L.S. Sealy Cambridge Law Journal September 2002 Varied, provocative, weaving different strands in corporate law scholarship into a fascinating whole, Corporate Personality in the 20th Century offers the reader a lively overview of some of the best that corporate law scholarship has to offer. Sandra S. Berns Griffith Law Review September 2002 This book is a high quality set of essays on a topic of enduring interest, namely the significance of Salomon's case. DMM Australian Law Journal September 2002

• The bootmaker's legacy to company law doctrine, Ross Grantham and Charles Rickett; corporate personality - limited recourse and its limits, David Goddard; commentary on Goddard, Ross Grantham; corporate groups, Robert P. Austin; commentary on Austin, Andrew Borrowdale; corporate personality, limited liability and the protection of creditors, Dan Prentice; commentary on Prentice, Thomas G.W. Telfer; company law and regulatory complexity, Joanna Gray; commentary on Gray, Bernard Robertson; changes in the role of the shareholder, Jennifer Hill; commentary on Hill, Robert P. Austin; models of corporate regulation - the mandatory/enabling debate, Ian M. Ramsay; commentary on Ramsay, Tim Hazledine; financial transparency and corporate governance - the United States as a model, Louis Lowenstein.