The nuclear power plant in Temelin, Czech Republic, which is located only approximately 50 km from the Austrian and German borders has been the source of a longstanding and at times bitter dispute between the Czech Republic and Austria. It is far from unusual that nuclear power plants are...

The dialogue of the board and its chairman with investors is an established practice in many countries, such as the United Kingdom, the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and recently also Germany. In the UK this dialogue covers the whole range of relevant board topics, certainly including...

Generally, letterbox companies are corporate structures (legal entities), which do not maintain any real economic activity in the country of registration. In principle, alone or combined with other structures such as trusts or foundations, they serve either to evade provisions applicable in the...

The U.S. is often placed within a liberal-utilitarian model and the E.U. is often positioned within a social model. But, rather than adhere to such neat divisions and other binary choices like regulatory models versus voluntarist models such as the corporate social responsibility model, this...

With the case of Lliuya v. RWE, climate change litigation has come to Germany. The article explores the German law of torts or delict, asking whether it has something to offer to victims of climate change. The essential elements of negligence liability, i.e. scope of protection, duty of care,...