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Miller, Statutory Interpretation, and the True Place of EU Law in UK Law

Mikołaj Barczentewicz, University College

In a paper forthcoming in Public Law, I argue for a different understanding of the relationship between UK law and EU law than the one adopted by the Supreme Court in the Miller judgment. On the view...

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Germany Enacts Statute on Group Insolvencies

Renato Mangano

On 13 April 2017, the German Parliament enacted a ‘Statute for a Simplified Treatment of Group Insolvencies’. It will enter into force on 21 April 2018 and will supplement the prescriptions of the...

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Commercial Law

Changes of Lex Societatis: A Quick Comment on the Polbud Case

Francisco Garcimartín

A brief summary of the case For the purpose of this note, the case (C-106/16) may be summarised as follows. Polbud — Wykonawstwo sp. z o.o. (‘Polbud’) is a private limited liability company...

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Corporate Governance

German Corporate Co-Determination of Employees and EU Law – The Opinion of the Advocate General of the CJEU of 4 May 2017

Hans-Jürgen Hellwig

This blog follows-up on the author's blog of 27 February 2017, which summarises the hearing of 24 January 2017 in the case Erzberger v TUI referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘...

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Commercial Law

Study on the Law Applicable to Companies

Carsten Gerner-Beuerle | Federico M. Mucciarelli | Edmund Schuster | Mathias Siems

Can firms freely choose their place of incorporation and thus the applicable company law? And is it also possible that a firm can subsequently reincorporate in another country, with the effect of a...

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How Great is the 'Great Repeal Bill'?

TaylorWessing

The 'Great Repeal Bill' As the Brexit process continues to be mired in legal challenges (which are explored in more detail in our full article, Brexit and UK law in 2017), one of the few concrete...

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Financial Regulation

Paradise Lost: Can the European Union Expel Countries from the Eurozone

Jens Dammann

There was a time, not too long ago, when the introduction of the euro was hailed as a tremendous success. Yet the Eurozone now faces an existential crisis. Since 2008, a number of member states have...

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Commercial Law

Private Law Rights and Remedies Under the Free Movement of Goods and Services

Paul Verbruggen

The free movement of goods and services are central to the functioning of the Internal Market of the European Union (‘EU’). While many scholars have devoted their attention to analysing those...

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Financial Regulation

Necessity vs Legality: Is the ECB Running or Ruining Europe?

Ioannis Glinavos

In a recent article in the FT, Mark Mazower argued that Germany’s emergence as the dominant member state has left its imprint on European institutions and that the creation of the Euro has shifted...