This article charts the EU's regulatory response to the global financial crisis, and explores
what the response suggests about the new regulatory landscape and its risks. It explores …

As governments around the world withdraw from welfare provision and promote long-term
savings by households through the financial markets, the protection of retail investors has …

To what extent is EU company law harmonized? This article first makes the point that little
progress has been made in the direction of company law uniformity within the EU. It then …

The principle of subsidiarity is one of the most contested issues in European Law
scholarship. While the debate of subsidiarity was initially focused on whether it was judicially …

This article considers the regulation “on the books” of executive pay across the EU and the
evidence “in action” on corporate practice concerning executive pay (based on disclosures …

The financial crisis has brought about a revival of state protectionism across the globe. Most
Western leaders have made a virtue of big government and state intervention; bail-outs and …

This articles uses the recent drive in the UK to abolish gold-plating as a starting point to
analyse whether EU legislation on prospectus disclosure, transparency requirements, and …

EU policy‐making in criminal law is a matter of significant public concern for EU citizens and
the Member States. The exercise of EU public powers in the fields of criminal law and law …

This study tracks the legislative process of the Shareholders' Rights Directive II as regards
the regulation of related party transactions (RPT) and identifies important factors that have …

In advanced capitalist countries, economic activities are predominantly run through legal
entities called 'companies' or 'corporations, 1 whose members are not personally liable for …