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The Financial Crisis: A Reason to Improve Shareholder Protection in the EU? (2014)
Journal Article
Mukwiri, J., & Siems, M. (2014). The Financial Crisis: A Reason to Improve Shareholder Protection in the EU?. Journal of Law and Society, 41(1), 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2014.00656.x

The global financial crisis of 2008 has stimulated the debate on corporate governance and shareholder protection. The intuitive reason for the topicality of shareholder protection is that insolvencies mainly harm shareholders as the companies' residu... Read More about The Financial Crisis: A Reason to Improve Shareholder Protection in the EU?.

Citations to Foreign Courts – Illegitimate and Superfluous, or Unavoidable? Evidence from Europe (2014)
Journal Article
Gelter, M., & Siems, M. (2014). Citations to Foreign Courts – Illegitimate and Superfluous, or Unavoidable? Evidence from Europe. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 62(1), 35-85. https://doi.org/10.5131/ajcl.2013.0012

The theoretical arguments in favor and against citations to foreign courts have reached a high degree of sophistication. Yet, this debate is often based on merely anecdotal assumptions as to their actual purpose. This Article aims to fill this gap in... Read More about Citations to Foreign Courts – Illegitimate and Superfluous, or Unavoidable? Evidence from Europe.