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...

Takeovers have the potential to affect all stakeholders. The European takeover directive's stormy history, from the first proposal in 1989 to its - some may say - sorry conclusion in 2004, amply illustrates the heated emotions that the regulation of takeovers gives rise to. An attempt at...

In 2002, then Minister of Trade and Industry, Ansgar Gabrielsen, proposed to make obligatory that public limited liability companies in Norway have at least 40 per cent women directors on their boards. The minister voiced the proposal in a tabloid, apparently without checking this idea out with...