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02 Jun 2020
4 min to read

Using Litigation to Expedite the Clean Energy Transition

Sugandha Srivastav | Ryan Rafaty | Bjorn Hoops

Stretching over an expansive 80 square kilometres, the Hambach mine operated by RWE, one of the largest electricity producers in Germany, is a staggering sight. If there was ever a symbol of mankind’...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
01 Jun 2020
4 min to read

The Siren Song: Algorithmic Governance by Blockchain

Kevin Werbach

Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are stimulating investment, business activity, and media attention, as well as passionate visions of industry disruption and societal transformation. As...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
26 May 2020
5 min to read

The New Geographies of Corporate Law Production

Dionysia Katelouzou | Peer Zumbansen

Writing about the past trajectories and future prospects of corporate law production amidst the COVID-19 crisis presents several challenges, above all with regard to motivation and justification. In...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
25 May 2020
8 min to read

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Protectionism: A Threat to Corporate Governance

Maribel Sáez | María Gutiérrez

This year, spring has arrived in the midst of a generalized lock-down. People have been—and in many places remain—confined to their homes. Most firms and industries are barely operative. In economic...

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  • Corporate Governance
21 May 2020
4 min to read

Limiting Shareholder Power in Dutch Listed Companies

Bastiaan Kemp | Philippe Hezer | Sebastian Renshof

The default division of powers in Dutch company law allocates strong control rights to shareholders, including the power to appoint and dismiss board members and amend the articles of association...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
20 May 2020
6 min to read

A Firm-Specific View of Directors' Duty of Care in Times of Global Epidemic Crisis

Leon Yehuda Anidjar

With over 2 million confirmed cases of the COVID-19 worldwide, companies around the world are faced with severe loss of revenues and disrupted supply chains due to industry shutdowns and restrictions...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
19 May 2020
6 min to read

Will the Covid Crisis Force us to Reevaluate the Architecture of Banking Law (or Just Expose an Already Occurred Transformation)?

Piergiuseppe Spolaore

From ‘direct controls’ on banks to ‘prudential’ supervision In other times, the decision of a supervisory authority to prohibit dividend distributions to banks’ shareholders would not have made the...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
18 May 2020
3 min to read

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Easing the Economic Aftermath of a Global Pandemic

Mark J. Roe | John Coates

Roe and Coates spoke with Harvard Law Today (HLT) about what could be done to lower the chances of a bankruptcy backlog and how other corporate governance challenges posed by the pandemic should be...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
15 May 2020
5 min to read

Shareholder Stewardship Amidst of Covid-19: The Future of Enforcement

Dionysia Katelouzou | Konstantinos Sergakis

The Covid-19 global pandemic is already having profound ramifications upon companies, the economy and society at large. Shareholders, stakeholders (employees, customers, NGOs and others) as well as...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
  • M&A
12 May 2020
4 min to read

Emerging Corporate Governance Considerations for the Post-COVID-19 World

Ravipal S Bains

COVID-19 has upended life and the corporate world almost without exception. Pervasive business closures, credit defaults, and contract breaches have caused enormous personal anxiety and challenges...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
12 May 2020
3 min to read

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Times of Covid

Akshaya Kamalnath

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept that notoriously evades definition. Some have said that companies should act in socially responsible ways in their daily operations while charitable...

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  • Corporate Governance
07 May 2020
4 min to read

Capitalist Variations in 'Say on Pay': Corporate Governance Contradictions in Singapore and Hong Kong

Lance Ang

To rebuild trust in businesses amidst concerns of excessive executive remuneration following the global financial crisis, ‘say on pay’ reforms have been introduced in many major jurisdictions, most...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
06 May 2020
3 min to read

The COVID-19-Crisis and Company Law: Towards Virtual Shareholder Meetings

Dirk A. Zetzsche | Linn Anker-Sørensen | Roberta Consiglio | Miko Yeboah-Smith

Regulators and Parliaments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 epidemic by amending company law. This crisis legislation allows us to examine how, and to what effect, the corporate...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
06 May 2020
4 min to read

When Businesses Can Do Good: Lessons from the Coronavirus Crisis for Promoting Responsible Business Practices

Suren Gomtsian

Universal threats can unite opposing camps in a common effort. The new coronavirus has hit almost every country and has created a shared understanding that every effort to contribute, however small...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
01 May 2020
5 min to read

Transnational Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Twenty-First Century Challenges

Dionysia Katelouzou | Peer Zumbansen

‘Seriously?’, you might think. A paper about the history and future prospects of corporate governance amidst Covid-19? Why would two corporate law scholars think that their reflections on how in the...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
30 Apr 2020
2 min to read

Directors’ Duty under UK Law to Promote the Success of the Company during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Philip Gavin

As the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) puts the corporate world under strain, those in positions of corporate control must navigate the pressure to mitigate COVID-19’s impact, while also remaining...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
29 Apr 2020
5 min to read

Corporate Power and Legitimacy in the Post-Covid-19 Age: A Model of Sovereign Control

Vincenzo Bavoso

Questions of corporate power have permeated corporate law scholarship for a long time. They have historically informed broader political discussions on the extent to which the concentration of...

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  • Corporate Governance
24 Apr 2020
4 min to read

The New Italian Corporate Governance Code—a Step Forward for a More Sustainable and Proportional Corporate Governance Model

Marcello Bianchi | Mateja Milič

In January 2020, the Italian Corporate Governance Committee released the new edition of the Corporate Governance Code. The Committee’s overall review followed such an innovative approach with regard...
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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • M&A
22 Apr 2020
14 min to read

GCGC/ECGI Global Webinar Series - Extreme times, Extreme Measures: Pandemic-Resistant Corporate Law

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

It's a pandemic. There are no rules (Seth Meyers) These are exceptional times. Almost everywhere, policymakers are taking exceptional measures. Most of these measures are in the domains of public...

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  • Corporate Governance
22 Apr 2020
3 min to read

The Law and Practice of Shareholder Inspection Rights: A Comparative Analysis of China and the U.S.

Robin Hui Huang | Randall Thomas

Shareholder inspection rights allow a shareholder to access relevant documents and records of their company, so as to address the problem of information asymmetry inherent in the corporate form, and...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
20 Apr 2020
1 min to read

In Case You Missed It: 'The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath. Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges', a 24-hour Global Webinar

OBLB Editors

On 16 April 2020, the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) held the 24-Hour Global Webinar ‘The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate...

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