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On 31 August 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility was tabled in the Australian Parliament. The ALRC made 20 recommendations to strengthen and...

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has released its much anticipated judgment in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Court of Appeal’s previous finding that the...

COVID-19 threw Annual General Meetings (AGMs) across the UK and beyond into chaos, leading 2/3 of FTSE 100 companies to close their doors to their shareholders. Yet even before this crisis, AGMs have...

Can the ownership and governance structure of a central bank affect its institutional activities? Who benefits from a central bank’s assets and operating results and how does it impact its...

In my new monograph, Corporate Reorganization Law and Forces of Change (OUP 2020), I argue that it is not possible to adopt a fixed or universal conceptual framework in analysing the many different...

Striving to manage the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the Lithuanian government announced a 3-month quarantine throughout the country on 16 March 2020. This meant severe business restrictions or even a...

Legal scholars have long recognized that corporate persons, just like natural persons, operate as ‘right-and-duty bearing units’ (Friedrich Maitland), serving as a ‘point of imputation’ of legal...

The GameStop saga has been mainly portrayed as the revenge of the retail day trader against the mighty hedge funds. While we all love the romanticised version of this story, the reality is more...

Blockchain applications begin to transform both companies and company law. The respective implications at the intersection of blockchain and company law as well as the potential need for legal reform...

Around the globe, legislatures have become active in providing competition authorities with new tools and resources to curb the market power of Big Tech. Germany is one of the countries at the...

Everybody agrees that a strong policy response to COVID-19 is and will be needed. And everybody agrees that it would be even better if this response could also contribute to solve problems that...

Despite the intense effort of the EU to harmonise company law, significant differences persist across Member States. In a working paper, which is about to be published as a book chapter (Ziegler,...

Over the last decade, applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and crypto-assets have been increasingly observed within the EU financial sector. However, regulatory fragmentation and...

Corporations that are able to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the most suitable way are not only likely to overcome the current COVID-19 crisis more effectively, but also to succeed in the...

Company law has been increasingly subject to legislation on the EU level in recent years. A recent piece of harmonization efforts in the field of company law is the Shareholders’ Rights Directive II...

In 2002, the European legislature considered that a legal framework to facilitate financial collateral transactions such as repurchase agreements (repos), securities lending and derivatives would ‘...

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the global economy, regulators are struggling to find cost-effective mitigation strategies. The goal of such strategies should be simple: reduce the...

This post summarises the introduction to a book collection on Decentralised Business Models edited by us and published by Routledge UK. This book draws together themes in business model developments...