The paper investigates the effect of legal change on the lending behavior of banks in twelve transition economies. First, we find that banks increase the supply of credit subsequent to legal change. Second, changes in collateral law matter more for increases in bank lending than do changes in...

Differentiated Integration (DI) has been a core issue in the debate surrounding European integration by both political and legal actors within the EU since early on in its existence. The debate has now shifted to the effect that DI will have post-Brexit, as those in favour of European...

Electoral education of citizens is one of the pillars that support a viable democratic society. It helps to anchor in solid bases the political relation between the individual and civil society as well between state and the individual. It leads to greater political accountability of both voters...

In this paper, we review the changes the DTC will bring about in the institutional framework of the European Union, focusing mainly, though not exclusively, on the most controversial issues, which were only resolved by the IGC at its final meeting in June 2004. Our aim is to identify and explain...

As the EU’s competences and activities in external relations expand, more and more documents held by EU institutions potentially fall within the scope of the ‘international relations’ and ‘defence and military matters’ exception contained in the EU’s Access to Documents Regulation...

The first part of this article discusses the Takeover Code and the Takeover Panel. This is then followed by an examination of the rules of the Takeover Code relating to the non-frustration rule. The article then delves into the duties of directors under the company law regime and expounds the...