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Shareholder Stewardship: Autonomy and Sociality

1 February 2024

Konstantinos Sergakis

Hard Law and Soft Law Regulations of Artificial Intelligence in Investment Management

Integrating Sustainable Finance into the Prospectus Regulation

13 July 2023

Iris H-Y Chiu

Pierre Schammo

Why Corporate Governance Codes still have a function to perform

13 December 2022

Piergaetano Marchetti

Maria Lucia Passador

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and the Shifting Balance between Soft Law and Hard Law in the EU

In this post, I briefly comment on the proposed Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence from three different angles. Firstly, I criticise the fact that the proposal defines the...

22 April 2022

Guido Ferrarini

The Remains of the Day: EU Financial Agencies, Soft Law and the Relics of Meroni

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), is a tale of reminiscence, lost chances, and of the need to move ahead. Considering the implications of the Judgement rendered...

21 January 2022

Filippo Annunziata

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Sustainable Corporate Governance and Soft Law

The public consultation launched by the European Commission in 2020 and the related studies by EY and the British Institute of International and Comparative...

When Soft Law Instruments Matter: OBLB Influences Cayman Islands' Judgement Approving Cross-Border Insolvency Protocol

It is hard not to notice the increasing number of soft law instruments that have been published in recent years, at least in the field of restructuring and insolvency law....

25 November 2020

Gert-Jan Boon

Bob Wessels

Soft Law Instruments on Restructuring and Insolvency Law: Why They Matter (or Not)

Soft law instruments are increasingly prevalent in the area of restructuring and insolvency law. These instruments, all embodied in legally non-binding texts, often originate from so-called standard-setting organisations. This includes...

26 July 2019

Gert-Jan Boon

Bob Wessels

Soft Law as Governing Law

International commercial, financial, and other business transactions increasingly are conducted under ‘soft law’ rules—effectively, non-state rules that may be aspirational or reflect best practices but are not yet legally enforceable....

30 January 2019

Steven L. Schwarcz

Shareholder Stewardship: Autonomy and Sociality

Hard Law and Soft Law Regulations of Artificial Intelligence in Investment Management

Integrating Sustainable Finance into the Prospectus Regulation

Why Corporate Governance Codes still have a function to perform

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and the Shifting Balance between Soft Law and Hard Law in the EU

The Remains of the Day: EU Financial Agencies, Soft Law and the Relics of Meroni

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Sustainable Corporate Governance and Soft Law

When Soft Law Instruments Matter: OBLB Influences Cayman Islands' Judgement Approving Cross-Border Insolvency Protocol

Soft Law Instruments on Restructuring and Insolvency Law: Why They Matter (or Not)

Soft Law as Governing Law

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