Introduction -- Binding corporate rules: an overview -- The worldwide data protection regulatory landscape -- Trends and developments in the legal landscape -- Trends and developments in multinational corporate practice -- The BCR regime -- BCR and contract law -- BCR and EU rules of private...

This paper contrasts the recent European initiatives on regulating corporate groups with alternative approaches to the phenomenon. In doing so it pays particular regard to the German codified law on corporate groups as the polar opposite to the piecemeal approach favored by E.U. legislation. It...