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EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ECGI Policy Workshop on ‘Directors' Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance’

In recent weeks, the Oxford Business Law Blog has been featuring a series of blog posts covering the recently released ‘Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance’...

3 November 2020

OBLB Editors

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Sustainable Corporate Governance? — A Response from the Nordic Countries

There is at present a considerable risk that the European Commission and Parliament will fail to appreciate the severity of the criticism that the recent sustainability and corporate governance initiative...

2 November 2020

Jesper Lau Hansen

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: 'Diagnosis Before Treatment: The Use and Misuse of Evidence in Policymaking'

I commend the European Commission for producing an extremely timely report and for being committed to ensuring that business works for wider society, not just short-term profit.However, given the substantial...

30 October 2020

Alex Edmans

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: 'Corporate Opportunities Rules, Long-termism and Sustainability'

The study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance by Ernst&Young analyses the regulative alternatives for promoting long-termism and sustainability, by way of setting appropriate incentives to the adoption by...

29 October 2020

Marco Corradi

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ‘A Response From the Copenhagen Business School’

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Study on directorsʼ duties and sustainable corporate governance report prepared by EY and published and submitted by the European Commission for...

Corporate Governance Challenges in Initial Coin Offerings

In the past years, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have become an important fundraising method for many individuals and firms. While most regulators, academics and policymakers around the world have focused...

23 October 2020

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

Nydia Remolina

Reflexive law and section 172 narrative reporting: reconciling utility and responsibility?

The economic success of the shareholder primacy model has dominated UK company law and imposed a strong allegiance to the shareholder value principle as a primary measure of utility. In...

22 October 2020

Adaeze Okoye

Ernst Freund as Precursor of the Rational Study of Corporate Law

It is now widely recognized that legal entity status fulfills important economic functions by separating a firm’s business assets and the personal assets of its founders, directors, or shareholders, and...

22 October 2020

David Gindis

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ‘The European Commission’s Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique’

In July 2020, the European Commission published the ‘Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance’ by EY (‘the Report’). The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating...

Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment

Institutional ownership has grown tremendously over the last decades, rising to more than 70% of US public firms. The composition of institutional ownership has also changed, with a remarkable growth...

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ECGI Policy Workshop on ‘Directors' Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance’

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Sustainable Corporate Governance? — A Response from the Nordic Countries

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: 'Diagnosis Before Treatment: The Use and Misuse of Evidence in Policymaking'

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: 'Corporate Opportunities Rules, Long-termism and Sustainability'

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ‘A Response From the Copenhagen Business School’

Corporate Governance Challenges in Initial Coin Offerings

Reflexive law and section 172 narrative reporting: reconciling utility and responsibility?

Ernst Freund as Precursor of the Rational Study of Corporate Law

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ‘The European Commission’s Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique’

Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment

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