This book identifies a number of rules, from UK, US and Dutch origin, that together are deemed to constitute “good” corporate governance, and raises the question whether – and if so, to what extent – these rules are capable of being legally enforced in the various jurisdictions (ISBN 978-90-411-2873-7). See for more information: http://www.kluwerlaw.com/Catalogue/titleinfo.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic?ProdID=9041128735&name=Corporate-Governance-as-a-Limited-Legal-Concept

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 [...]

Bob Wessels (1949) is a Dutch legal counsel, since September 2007 Professor of International Insolvency Law, Leiden University (one day a week). Professor of Civil and Commercial Law, Vrije University Amsterdam (1988-februari 2008). Since 1987 Deputy Justice at the Court of Appeal, The Hague.

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.

Cornelis (Cees) de Groot is senior lecturer of company law at Leiden University. He studied social-economic law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. During the last year of his studies, he worked as an undergraduate research assistant with the department of European law. Following his studies, he worked at Leiden University as a [...]

Gert-Jan Vossestein, LL.M.  Gert-Jan Vossestein is a lecturer of company law at Leiden University and a Fellow at the Meijers Institute. He teaches courses on EC Company Law, (Business) Law & Economics and Netherlands Company Law. He also holds courses for post-graduate students. Previously he worked for Ernst & Young (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York) and [...]

Barend Verkerk (1978) lectures Netherlands corporate law at Leiden University. Barend combines his position at Leiden University with his work at the Corporate Law department of AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen N.V. in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Barend started working as an attorney specialised in corporate law after his graduation from Leiden University in 2001. As such [...]

Hanneke Wegman (1983) studied Law at Leiden University and she recently started in the function of PhD-fellow at the same University. Previously she worked as legal assistant at Brink Advocaten B.V. in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. In this profession she especially found it challenging to study complex issues of preferably company law matters. Because of the [...]