The principle of good faith has always governed commercial relationships in civil law countries. However, the correct application and limits of this principle have always been debated. This paper firstly analyses how bona fide is interpreted in Italian contract law, concluding that it aims to...

Self-dealing refers to all kinds of transactions and operations diverting value from a company to corporate controllers. In order to tackle self-dealing, academics and regulators have emphasised the legal tools. However, there is a divergence between those supporting the existence of a benchmark...

The aim of the present article is twofold. Firstly, to put the German Federal Constitutional Court (i.e., the BverfG) judgment into the context of a drawn-out conflict between the German Republic and the European Union regarding the setting up of a crisis management tool in the area of monetary...

Canadian National Report prepared for the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Conference on tax secrecy and transparency, Rust, Austria, July, 2012. The aim of the project is to assess how different countries regard the treatment of tax information and tax secrecy. Topics include the...

In consideration of the corporate governance discussion and the discussion of the stock corporation act's deregulation and the diminution of mandatory law, one can see that the economy requires different models and legal solutions for different situations. In this regard, it would be reasonable...

The painful case which gave rise to the German Supreme Court’s (BGH) 2018 landmark decision on digital inheritance offers a benchmark for evaluating the different solutions that the law could provide to protect interests involved in digital inheritance. As is well known, the General Data...