Liability for preventing and remediating environmental damage in Germany is mostly enforced by national liability legislation for preventing and remediating land/soil, water, and biodiversity damage, and environmental permitting and planning legislation. Competent authorities tend to enforce...

Personal liability for the breach of a duty is not only a general principle of the German law of obligations but also of German corporate law. According to § 43 subs. 2 of the Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung (henceforth German Closed Corporation Act) and § 93...

This article discusses the German Federal Supreme Court decision in Bundesgerichtshof (Google Autocomplete) (VI ZR 269/12) on whether Google was responsible for the publication of results generated by the "autocomplete" function of its search engine that made defamatory suggestions about the...

The article presents some of the main features of the impending changes to the structure of the German GmbH by the introduction of the new Law Relating to GmbH's and on the Fighting of Abuses ('MoMiG'), due to be implemented in November 2008

The issues of directors' liability have been at the center of the German discourse in corporate law for some time – both politically and academically. There have been efforts at legislative reform, some very significant court rulings and a torrent of legal writing. This paper presents an...

In this paper, a law reform is evaluated that aimed at improving the corporate governance of German savings banks by tightening accountability and legal liability of outside directors. The causal effect of this reform on bank risk is identified by difference-in-differences and triple differences...

As attention moves rapidly towards comparative approaches, the research and teaching of company law has somehow lagged behind. The overall purpose of this book is therefore to fill a gap in the literature by identifying whether conceptual differences between countries exist. Rather than...

Enlightenment, natural law and economic liberalism engendered the grand concept of modern private law. Nearly simultaneously the ongoing process of industrial revolution paved the path into another modernity. Its new paradigms were technical risks, enterprises and insurance. Insurability of...