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EU Takeover Regulation: Some ‘Hot’ Research Topics

10 May 2024

Peter Agstner

The Emergence of Inter-Asian Law: Normative Origins, Trajectories, and Contours

4 December 2023

Matthew Erie

Ching-Fu Lin

Crypto Regulation from a Comparative Perspective: A Functional Framework for the Analysis

20 September 2023

Edoardo D. Martino

The Dark Side of Colombia’s Benefit Corporation

The US ‘benefit corporation’ model, developed principally by B Lab, is a fascinating regulatory innovation. Going all the way back to its original emergence in Maryland in...

8 June 2022

J S Liptrap

The shareholder in France and the United States: A comparative analysis of corporate legal priorities

The fundamental question in the law of business organizations—what is the purpose of the corporation? —contains a related question of constituencies and therefore priorities among them—whom does the corporation serve?...

Crowdfunding and the Protection of Trust – Fundamentals and Comparative Law Considerations

In my latest research contribution, I analyse the regulatory framework of crowdfunding in Switzerland, the UK and the USA. After describing crowdfunding and its potential as an alternative means...

30 July 2020

Tizian Troxler

A Milestone in China’s Civil Law System: the Passage of its First Civil Code

The long-awaited legislative promulgation of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on 28 May 2020 is widely perceived as a historical milestone in the...

15 June 2020

Mimi Zou

Managing the Insolvency Curve in Australia

As with many countries trying to handle the current COVID-19 pandemic (on which see already this comparative analysis by Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez), and as but one measure to limit...

20 April 2020

Michael Murray

Jason Harris

The Social Enterprise Company in Europe: Policy, Theory and Isomorphism

Corporate organisational constructs facilitating social enterprise have proliferated for the last decade across many European jurisdictions. In a recent paper (forthcoming in the Journal of Corporate Law Studies),...

17 March 2020

J S Liptrap

Shifting Contours of Directors’ Fiduciary Duties and Norms in Comparative Corporate Governance

The problems in global financial markets are often similar, even though the capital market structure across jurisdictions differs significantly. The beginning of the 21st century was marked by a spate of...

26 February 2020

Jennifer Hill

EU Takeover Regulation: Some ‘Hot’ Research Topics

The Emergence of Inter-Asian Law: Normative Origins, Trajectories, and Contours

Crypto Regulation from a Comparative Perspective: A Functional Framework for the Analysis

The Dark Side of Colombia’s Benefit Corporation

The shareholder in France and the United States: A comparative analysis of corporate legal priorities

Crowdfunding and the Protection of Trust – Fundamentals and Comparative Law Considerations

A Milestone in China’s Civil Law System: the Passage of its First Civil Code

Managing the Insolvency Curve in Australia

The Social Enterprise Company in Europe: Policy, Theory and Isomorphism

Shifting Contours of Directors’ Fiduciary Duties and Norms in Comparative Corporate Governance

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