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European Commission proposes additional rationalisation of company reporting requirements in 2024 Commission Work Programme

6 November 2023

Thea C Bauer

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: The 2024 Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference

3 November 2023

OBLB Editors

What is important (and what is not) in corporate law for social enterprises?

18 October 2023

Sofie Cools

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: 'The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital'

25 January 2023

OBLB Editors

The Corporation as Technology: Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future

Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. Given the scope of their operations and consequent impacts, the rules that...

30 May 2022

Christopher M. Bruner

Letting Companies Choose between Board Models: An Empirical Analysis of Country Variations

Many private companies are simply managed by a single person. Yet, for public companies (joint-stock companies), having a suitable board structure is a key aspect of corporate governance. But how...

21 May 2021

Martin Gelter

Mathias Siems

Shareholder Protection in Close Corporations: The Enigmatic Past and Present of Withdrawal in Japan

Oppressed minority shareholders seemingly have an obvious solution for their woes: vote with their feet, sell their shares, and leave the company. But what if selling shares on the stock...

2 November 2020

Alan K Koh

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

How Universal Is the Corporate Form? Reflections on the Dwindling of Corporate Attributes in Brazil

The business corporation is a central institution of modern capitalism. Since its inception several centuries ago, the reported history of the corporate form is one of continued proliferation and diffusion...

23 March 2018

Mariana Pargendler

A Rule-Based Method for Comparing Corporate Laws

Scholars, lawyers, judges, and policy-makers frequently need to compare corporate laws, both internationally and domestically. To make those comparisons, researchers need a method. Those who simply search foreign law for...

22 March 2018

Lynn M. LoPucki

European Commission proposes additional rationalisation of company reporting requirements in 2024 Commission Work Programme

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: The 2024 Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference

What is important (and what is not) in corporate law for social enterprises?

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: 'The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital'

The Corporation as Technology: Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future

Letting Companies Choose between Board Models: An Empirical Analysis of Country Variations

Shareholder Protection in Close Corporations: The Enigmatic Past and Present of Withdrawal in Japan

Ernst Freund as Precursor of the Rational Study of Corporate Law

How Universal Is the Corporate Form? Reflections on the Dwindling of Corporate Attributes in Brazil

A Rule-Based Method for Comparing Corporate Laws

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