Should courts consider cases from other jurisdictions? The use of foreign law precedent has sparked considerable debate in the United States, and this question is also controversially discussed in Europe. In this paper and within the larger research project from which it has developed, we study...

It is one of the well-known cornerstones of corporate governance that (minority) share-holders are subject to a risk of being expropriated by the controller of the firm, i.e. either entrenched management under a dispersed ownership structure or a controlling share-holder under concentrated...

Financial social responsibility (FSR) bridges the financial world with society in socially responsible investment (SRI). In socially conscientious screenings, shareholder advocacy, community investing and social venture capital funding, private investors choose SRI for efficiency and long-term...

The currently ongoing introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and big data into our contemporary society causes a market transformation that heightens the need for ethics in the wake of an unprecedented outsourcing decision making to machines. Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses...

The following research nurtures an environment of freedom in our contemporary society. Climate change demands attention to intergenerational equity – the fairness to provide an as favorable standard of living to future generations as we enjoy today. The currently ongoing introduction of...

Financial sustainability conscientiousness is discussed in the focal point of law, economics and governance. The implementation of sustainability accounts for the most challenging contemporary global governance predicaments that seems to pit today's against future generations in the trade-off of...