Prokopiuk A. Corporate responsibility in shareholder relations.

The dissertation is a comprehensive study of the subjects of joint-stock relations corporate responsibility, aimed at finding ways to improve corporate law of Ukraine, taking into account the experience of foreign countries and analysis of case law. Сorporate responsibility defined as an independent type of legal liability, that differs from contractual and non-contractual (tort) basis of application (corporate offense), subjects, purpose, content (forms of property and corporate sanctions). Сorporate responsibility based on the principles of specialty (grounds, forms, types determined by law or contract), separate property liability of the corporation and its members, with the possibility of its subsidiary application for damages to members of the company, persons managing the company, related parties, ultimate beneficial owners. А corporate offense is defined as a violation of the corporate rights of corporate relations participants, the rights of creditors and other stakeholders established by law or the corporate agreement terms, non-fulfillment of corporate obligations by participants or fiduciary duties by officials, abuse of corporate rights, which made its impossible or difficult to exercise and / or led to losses.