Lorraine Talbot. Critical Company Law. New York, Routledge-Cavendish, 2008.

The aim is to invigorate what many students and academics consider a dry subject by uncovering the social factors which continue to inform this area of law – and the political nature of the law itself. Dr Talbot maintains that modern company law is shaped by three main factors – economics, ideology and existing law. The state of the law at any one time is determined by the constantly shifting relationship between these factors.