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EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Sustainable Corporate Governance: A Way Forward

The self-declared overall objective of the ‘Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance’ that Ernst and Young recently prepared for the European Commission DG Justice and Consumers...

5 May 2021

Florian Möslein

Karsten Engsig Sørensen

Blockchain Applications and Company Law

Blockchain applications begin to transform both companies and company law. The respective implications at the intersection of blockchain and company law as well as the potential need for legal reform...

23 February 2021

Florian Möslein

Certifying ‘Good’ Companies: Regulatory Schemes for Corporate Sustainability in a Comparative Perspective

Ensuring sustainability is one of the grand challenges of our times, but nation-states are severely overstrained with this monumental task. Since states’ legislative power is limited, the suitable design of...

22 January 2019

Florian Möslein

Legal Boundaries of Blockchain Technologies: Smart Contracts as Self-Help

Blockchain technologies promise to execute tasks that have traditionally been settled by legal institutions. Some providers of such technologies explicitly offer ‘to act as a digital jurisdiction’ Such...

9 January 2019

Florian Möslein

The Commission’s Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth and its Corporate Governance Implications

With the adoption of the Action Plan ‘Financing Sustainable Growth’, the European Commission is taking a range of steps towards encouraging listed companies to conduct their business in a more...

4 October 2018

Florian Möslein

Karsten Engsig Sørensen

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Regulating Robotic Conduct - On ESMA’s New Guidelines and Beyond

FinTech is rapidly transforming the financial services sector. Based on a broad range of different new technologies and innovations, it increasingly attracts the interest of national, global and European regulators. In...

10 April 2018

Florian Möslein

Robots in the Boardroom: Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Law

Due to its rapid technological development, artificial intelligence will enter corporate boardrooms in the very near future. My recent paper explores the interplay between artificial intelligence and corporate...

16 November 2017

Florian Möslein

Nudging for Corporate Long‐Termism and Sustainability? Regulatory Instruments from a Comparative and Functional Perspective

Due to climate changes, population growth and environmental degradation, the quest for sustainability ranks high on the political agenda. As a consequence, the question whether company law should be used...

22 May 2017

Florian Möslein

Karsten Engsig Sørensen

Mapping Shareholders’ Duties

Recent developments in European company law and capital market law have heralded a break with the traditional perception in company law that shareholders have no duties when they invest in...

6 January 2017

Hanne Birkmose

Florian Möslein

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Sustainable Corporate Governance: A Way Forward

Blockchain Applications and Company Law

Certifying ‘Good’ Companies: Regulatory Schemes for Corporate Sustainability in a Comparative Perspective

Legal Boundaries of Blockchain Technologies: Smart Contracts as Self-Help

The Commission’s Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth and its Corporate Governance Implications

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Regulating Robotic Conduct - On ESMA’s New Guidelines and Beyond

Robots in the Boardroom: Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Law

Nudging for Corporate Long‐Termism and Sustainability? Regulatory Instruments from a Comparative and Functional Perspective

Mapping Shareholders’ Duties

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