Christiaan Anton (Kid) Schwarz Born in Leiden, 26 December 1954 Married with 2 children, Joop (born 1991) and Piet (born 1996). His wife Irene E. Klinkenberg is a successful graphic designer and industrial designer. They all live very happily together in Leiden. Prof. Dr. C.A. Schwarz (born 1954) read notary law at Leiden University (1978), [...]

Stephan Rammeloo (1960) is Senior Lecturer in (European) Company Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Universiteit Maastricht since 1992. He took his masters degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (1985) and studied conflict of laws at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster (Federal Republic of Germany). He was research assistant at the University of [...]

Subtitle: A Normative Analysis of the Objectives of EU Law, with the Takeover Directive as a Test Case No one doubts any longer that sustainable development is a normative imperative. Yet there is unmistakably a great reluctance to acknowledge any legal basis upon which companies are obliged to forgo ‘shareholder value’ when such a policy [...]

This study clears up some of the mists hanging around the concept of corporate veil piercing. What exactly is corporate veil piercing and in which situations does it occur? What are the legal rules involved? Following a short overview of the applicable law in the six legal systems that are the subject of this study-those [...]

This book contains a collection of all contributions made at the 1st CECL conference, held at 23 September 2005 in Leiden, the Netherlands, and some additional articles (ISBN 978-90-4114-2529-3). For more information see: http://www.kluwerlaw.com/Catalogue/titleinfo.htm?ProdID=9041125299&name=European-Company-Law-In-Accelerated-Progress

  Mieke Olaerts  was born in Genk (Belgium) in 1979.  She studied  Dutch law at Maastricht University and specialized in  commercial and corporate law (2002). During her studies she worked as an intern at the law firm AKD Prinsen van Wijmen in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), in the corporate and insolvency department. In January 2003, Mieke [...]