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14 May 2012
On Friday, the 8th of June 2012 the Department of Business Law organizes the first symposium in the Tilburg Business & Financial Law Symposium Series.
In keeping Tilburg University’s aim to foster research and to provide an international environment of excellence, the Department of Business Law invites experts to Tilburg to make presentations on topics of interest in the fields of corporate governance, securities markets, venture capital, or innovation and entrepreneurship.
Speakers may discuss recently completed work or work in progress that is close to completion. Topics often align with research directions within the Department. Symposia are scheduled for the beginning and end of each semester of the International Business Law Masters Program. Students in this program will be responsible for organizing the symposia.
The first symposium in this series titled Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Does Law Matter? will be held on Friday, the 8th of June at Tilburg University.
12 April 2012
In this new research paper Shareholder Rights and Shareholder Activism: The Role of the General Meeting of Shareholders Christoph F. Van der Elst addresses the powers of the general meeting in a comparative perspective.
First, the power of the shareholders that is provided through the European company law directives is briefly described.
Next the “national” powers of
(1) ordinary general meetings and
(2) extra-ordinary meetings are addressed and compared.
Third, the law in action is used to analyze the developments of shareholder rights and shareholder activism and to discuss whether the law and regulations provide in the appropriate shareholders rights.
The paper concludes with a plea for an in depth analysis of the needs and requirements of shareholders to participate in the decision making process of the company and an assessment of the alignment of their desires with the European view on the stakeholder interests in the company, before launching new initiatives.
8 March 2012
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First of all, professor Caslav Pejovic of Kyushu University Faculty of Law – Japan, lectures for the students of the Master of International Business Law on Japanese (Business) Law, Foreign Investment Law and on Maritime Law.
Furthermore, the students of the European Master of Transnational Trade Law and Finance, have lectures on Ethics and Financial Law from professor Dirk Zetzsche, David Eckner and Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra from the University of Liechtenstein.
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17 February 2012
In The European Financial Market in Transition (eds. H. Birkmose, M. Neville and K.E. Sorensen) Christoph F. Van der Elst and Erik P.M. Vermeulen assess the proposals of the European Commission's Green Paper on Corporate Governance to strengthen 'sustainable returns and long-term performance'.
It is questioned whether new corporate governance measures of listed companies need to be amended. The book chapter concludes that shareholder engagement costs must be taken into consideration in the assessment of any new governance measure.
17 February 2012
This week the 4th edition of the 2-year international Erasmus Mundus Transnational Trade Law and Finance Master will start their second semester at Tilburg University. This Master is an academic collaboration between the University of Deusto (Spain), Tilburg University (The Netherlands), Rene Schumann University Strasbourg (France) and the Institute for Law and Finance of Frankfurt (Germany).
The European Commission endorses this unique master program on Business Law and Financial Law by providing scholarships funding for a select group of highly qualified European and non-European students that have already achieved a law degree and have evidenced a professional history of 2 years in their home country. However, the Master is also open to non-scholarships students who fulfill the requirements.
The program currently is selecting the fifth edition’s scholarship students who will start in September 2012 at the University of Deusto. More information you can find in the brochure.
For further questions about this master please contact Ger J.H. van der Sangen.
16 January 2012
As of the 1st of February 2012 the name of the bachelor and master in Law and Management (Recht en Management) will be changed in bachelor and master in Business Law (Ondernemingsrecht).
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