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Reshaping China's Company Legal Representative Rules

我国公司法定代表人规则的重塑

Argues that adding the manager as a possible legal representative did not solve concentrated-power problems and instead intensified uncertainty over authority and responsibility.

Brief English Introduction

Liang critiques the legal representative system as an institutional source of power concentration and responsibility confusion. The article argues that allowing managers to serve as legal representatives increased disputes over fitness for office and the allocation of power and liability among different company actors.

Use It For

Use it as a theoretical starting point for why legal representative doctrine belongs in the opening unit on corporate personality.

Teaching Notes

Ask students whether the legal representative should be redesigned as a governance office, an agency rule, or a registration device.