| CODE | ECL4000 | ||||||||
| TITLE | European Company Law | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 04 - Years 4, 5 in Modular UG or PG Cert Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | European and Comparative Law | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will introduce the student to kindred debates relating to Company Law harmonisation in the European Union. It provides an overview of the legal framework of company law in select EU Member States, as well as the legislative measures adopted by the EU and the relevant case law of the Court of Justice. Some of the principal harmonisation measures will be studied against their historical, contextual and comparative law background. This study-unit is an opportunity to learn about the nature of the corporation, incorporation and corporate representation, legal capital, piercing the corporate veil, and corporate insolvency and restructuring law. It covers the entire process of corporate formation and management from the perspective of the rather different corporate laws of the Anglo-Saxon world and of the Continental world. In addition, this study-unit offers an introduction to major issues of the European company law such as rights of stakeholders and shareholders, corporate governance, cross-border corporate mobility, as well as European-type companies鈥� frameworks. Learning Outcomes: - Understanding of the background to EU Company Law, and its roots in different company law traditions, enabling proper interpretation and application of national company law. - Good knowledge of select EU Regulations and Directives in Company Law. - Understanding of the principal issues still outstanding as relate to the freedom of establishment of companies, and also as to company law itself.- A deeper understanding of how company law works at the theoretical and also the practical level. Reading List: The students will be given a list of suggested reading materials for each topic. The basic texts used include: Vanessa Edwards, EC Company Law, Oxford, 1999; N de Luca, European Company Law: Text, Cases and Materials, CUP, (2021); C. Gerner-Beuerle and M. Schillig, Comparative Company Law, CUP (2019) |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Students taking this study-unit need to have a background in law. | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Jelena Agranovska |
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