LW6134 Chinese and Comparative Company Law
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The Systemic Structure of Fiduciary Duties in Company Law

公司法上信义义务的体系构成

Explains the revised Company Law's fiduciary-duty system by separating status-based duties, conduct-based duties, and responsibility allocation for directors, supervisors, senior managers, controlling shareholders, and actual controllers.

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Brief English Introduction

Zhao offers a system-level reading of fiduciary duties under the revised Company Law, making it especially useful for problems that involve several actors at once.

Use It For

Use it when a problem includes directors, supervisors, senior officers, controlling shareholders, and actual controllers, and students must avoid collapsing all responsibility into one generic fiduciary label.

Teaching Notes

Pair this with the Unit 5 hypotheticals and ask students to build a responsibility matrix: actor, source of duty, breach theory, claimant, and remedy.