The Globalization of Company Law 1844-1914 - Youard Lecture in Legal History 2023

Professor Ron Harris The Kalman Lubowsky Professor of Law and History, Tel Aviv University Ron Harris is today’s leading international scholar of the history of the business corporation. His work in legal and economic history has illuminated the formation of joint stock enterprises during industrialization in 18th century England, and the development of business enterprise in Britain, Germany, and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. More recently he has portrayed the wider comparative history of trade and colonialism as a key component in the rise of global capitalism. His most recent book is ‘Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700’ (Princeton UP, 2000). Harris will lecture on his current research addressing the expansion of company law from Britain to its global empire in the century before the Great War.