The world faces a complex convergence of social and ecological crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, human rights violations, rising inequality and societal instability. The United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for ‘the future of humanity and of...

Access to finance is crucial if we are to achieve the fundamental transition of our time: securing a safe and just society operating within the planetary boundaries. In the era of global market capitalism and deregulation, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) offer one of the few public economic...

EU law purports to take sustainable development and notably its environmental dimension seriously. At Treaty level, we have seen a progression from a situation where environmental protection was not mentioned, to the inclusion of the objective of environmental protection amongst the general...

Unlike much that has been written about the European takeover directive, where the focus has been on the technicalities of its provisions, and its implementation in the laws of the Member States, this paper looks at the directive from a bird's-eye perspective before exploring the three issues...

Access to finance is crucial if we are to achieve the fundamental transition of our time: securing a safe and just society operating within the planetary boundaries. In the era of global market capitalism and deregulation, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) offer one of the few public economic...

The company is one of the most ingenious inventions of our time. With limited liability for its investors, enabling capital to be (in theory) put to its most efficient use, the company has become the backbone of our economies. But must this all-important component of our market economies be...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) encompasses an enormous complexity of debate and private and public initiatives. This article deals with one section of the debate, with the definition of CSR commonly accepted by business and legislators as the starting point. CSR in a sustainable...

Law and economics, or legal-economics, is the field of science that introduces economic theory into legal theory and enriches them both. The rise of law and economics within company law is significant in at least three ways. Firstly, law and economics may contribute to the structuring of...

A recent judgment from the Norwegian Supreme Court concerning the demerger of a private limited liability company provides some insight into the Supreme Court's understanding of what kind of transactions between a company and its shareholders fall within the scope of the legal term 'demerger' as...