Ultra Vires Doctrine in Corporate Law

Marco Jiménez is currently an associate professor at the School of Law at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia). Marco studied law at the Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia) and holds both a specialization in commercial law and a master's in law and economics from the Universidad Javeriana (Colombia). His research areas are business law and economic criminal law, where he focused on white-collar crime. He has written two books: “Estudios sobre el Fideicomiso (2007)” and “El Delito de Colusión en la Contratación Estatal (2019)”.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Conceptual presentation of the ultra vires doctrine.- Chapter 3. The ultra vires doctrine in common law.- Chapter 4. The ultra vires doctrine in European civil law.- Chapter 5. The ultra vires doctrine in Latin America.- Chapter 6. The objects clause and the ultra vires doctrine.- Chapter 7. Legal procedure to reject ultra vires acts.- Chapter 8. Ratification of ultra vires acts.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.