Corporate governance today is an integral part of European Union law. This survey addresses selected legal developments with a view to foundations and perspectives of interdisciplinary research on corporate governance. To start with, the most important institution of internal corporate...

The chapter continues and advances our earlier research on ‘Board Models in Europe’.** We explore ‘The Structure of the Board of Directors’ with a view to the basic governance structure as provided by a board model vis-à-vis techniques of structuring the decision-making body, which can...