On 16 september 2011, the Centre for European Company Law organises its 4th conference on Responsible Shareholdership.

Venue: Leiden, the Netherlands. Further information and a registration brochure will be available soon.

We should like to draw your attention to the following conference organised by the Academy of European Law (ERA).
Annual Conference on EU Company Law 2011

-Recent developments
-ECJ Case law on freedom of establishment
-Corporate Governance
-Practical application of the SE

Trier, 21 -22 March

ILF guest lecture, 20 May 2010 This lecture by Professor Steef M. Bartman on piercing the corporate veil will take place at the Institute for Law and Finance (“ILF”), at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt. For more information see the registration form: Invitation – ILF Guest lecture – Prof. Bartman

The Academic Forum of Insol Europe (www.insol-europe.org/academics) & the Centre for European Company Law are organising a joint conference on CROSS-BORDER CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN THE BANKING SECTOR.

The conference takes place Thursday/Friday 1 and 2 July 2010. Venue: Leiden University, the Netherlands, Small Auditorium, Academy Building. (20 minutes from Schiphol Airport)

The Academy of European Law organises it’s annual conference on European Company law in Trier, Germany. The event takes place on March 22th and 23th 2010.

See for more information: http://www.era.int/cgi-bin/cms?_SID=NEW&_sprache=en&_bereich=artikel&_aktion=detail&idartikel=121151

Report on the Conference on Shareholder Democracy (Maastricht, Friday 18 September 2009) organized under the auspices of the Ius Cummune Research School within the framework of the Centre for European Company Law (CECL). CECL is a collaboration between the universities of Leiden, Utrecht and Maastricht.

Click here to go to the article about the CECL Conference on companies crossing borders within Europe. (Written by Tiago Pereira Monteiro, Junior Researcher, Utrecht University, the Netherlands).

JUDICIAL COOPERATION IN CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCY CASES Summary of the Inaugural Lecture of Bob Wessels on the occasion of the acceptance of the appointment as Professor of international insolvency law University of Leiden, The Netherlands; July 6, 2008 The lecture describes and analyzes the fairly common method of courts in the USA and Canada to order [...]

Past Conferences

First CECL Conference

European Company Law in Accelerated Progress

held on Friday 23 September 2005 in Leiden, the Netherlands

This conference took place on Friday 23 September 2005 in Leiden and was chaired by Professor Steef M. Bartman of Leiden University. The title refers to the European Commission’s adoption in 2003 of an Action Plan aimed to modernize company law and to enhance corporate governance throughout the European Union. This Action Plan was drafted in the wake of the activities of the High Level Group of Company Law Experts, chaired by Professor Jaap Winter. It already had and no doubt will continue to have a strong impact on the development of European company law for many years to come. Several experts from various European universities highlighted different aspects of this development. The discussion with the audience was introduced and initiated by Professor Jaap Winter.

Reports on this conference can be found in Ondernemingsrecht 2005-16, by W.N.J. van Casteren and in ECL 2006-01 by Odeaya Uziahu – Santcroos.