Deutsche Zusammenfassung: Das deutsche Abstammungsrecht ist weiterhin von dem Grundsatz der Verrechtlichung der leiblichen Elternschaft geprägt. Zunehmend gewinnt jedoch auch die soziale Elternschaft an Bedeutung, wodurch es vermehrt zu einer rechtlichen Elternschaft jenseits einer leiblichen...

Die gute Führung von Unternehmen und die Höhe der Managergehälter stehen nach diversen Finanzskandalen von Unternehmen und den Kursmanipulationen am Neuen Markt im Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses. Im Mai dieses Jahres hat die EU Kommission einen Aktionsplan über „Modernisierung...

European company law sees a revival. On December 12, 2012 the European Commission has presented a new Action Plan. It contains both company law and corporate governance rules. The Action Plan lists 16 main initiatives. The Commission plans in part new directives or revision of old ones and in...

Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and therefore are regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while there is a common core of rules on the boards, considerable differences remain, not only in detail, but...

Corporate governance of banks and other financial institutions differs considerably from general corporate governance. For financial institutions the scope of corporate governance goes beyond the shareholders (equity governance) to include debtholders, insurance policy holders and other...

The duty of loyalty is highly developed in Anglo-American countries, while in continental European countries it has only received more hesitant attention. Yet more recently there are tendencies to more convergence. They stem from company law scholarship, but also from more institutionally driven...

This paper contains the views of the European Company Law Experts (ECLE) on the future of European company law. The paper accompanies the responses of the European Company Law Experts to the European Commission's Consultation on the future of European Company Law of spring 2012. In the first...

Corporate governance of banks differs considerably from general corporate governance. For banks the scope of corporate governance goes beyond the shareholders (equity governance) to include debtholders (debt governance). From the perspective of bank supervision debt governance is the primary...

This paper constitutes the European Company Law Experts' response to the European Commission's Green Paper “The EU Corporate Governance Framework”. The paper contains responses to the individual questions put forward by the Commission as well as an introductory statement. In this statement...