T he objective of this symposium piece is to explore why share-holder derivative suits are
rare in Continental Europe. I mainly focus on Germany, France, and Italy, and further provide …

ABSTRACT What role does European Community (" EC") legislation in the corporate law
area play within the European Union (" EU")? How much does it shape Member States' …

The beginning of the twenty-first century has brought with it an extraordinary set of stimuli for
company law reform in the EU. A series of well-publicised recent scandals on both sides of …

В последние годы во всем мире значительно увеличились объемы и количество сделок
по приобретению крупных пакетов акций акционерных обществ. Вследствие …

[C] omparative law has not normally been" transnational" at all, but rather it has grown within
the frameworks of differ-ent legal traditions, responding to" inner" needs of legal elites. From …

English summary: Legislators are increasingly restricting the contractual freedom of the
contracting parties. Stefan Bechtold analyzes examples from contract law, consumer …

This Article documents and analyzes a powerful form of regulatory competitioncompetition
for investments-that has transformed national corporate laws in the European Union in …

In the regulation of public takeovers, a number of principal/agent conflicts arise. The main
focus of the regulation is on the target company surprised by the takeover bid-a hostile …

In Market Supervision in the European Union, Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel compares and
reconstructs the emergence of divergently structured supranational market supervision …

cusses conduct-regulating conflicts, and Chapter VII discusses products-liability conflicts.
Finally, Chapters IX and X gauge the current position of American conflicts law with regard to …