English Abstract: Latin notaries are more and more frequently defined as gatekeepers, due to their role in providing preventive legal control (in addition to certifying documents), a role that becomes increasingly important in modern legal systems.However, applying this american term loosely to...

English Abstract: This essay provides a survey on important empirical evidence on the "Chapter 11" corporate reorganization procedure of the United States of America, and applies the relevant economic findings to the new Swiss corporate reorganization procedure. Accordingly, the Swiss corporate...

German Abstract: Das neue Recht hat keine konkrete Regel zur Rechnungslegung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungskosten (F&E-Kosten). Zwar enthält Art. 959 Abs. 2 OR die allgemeinen Bilanzansatzkriterien, doch für ein komplexes Thema wie F&E liefert diese Bestimmung kaum Anhaltspunkte....

More than one third of companies listed in the FTSE EUROFIRST 300 index are governed accordingly to principles differing from the One share – One vote standards. These exceptions could be illustrated by several practices such as Scandinavian multiple voting shares, non voting shares as seen in...

(VF)Le présent article résume les propositions des acteurs du système de gouvernance américain en 2002 et s'intéresse au mythe de la transparence. Le moment est bien choisi pour approfondir la recherche sur ce sujet parce que la mondialisation des marchés est en train de conduire à la...