englischWith Art. 19 of Directive (EU) 2019/1023, the European legislator lays down a regime of obligations for director where there is a likelihood insolvency. The focus is explicitly on the interests of creditors.

In this volume, the author examines the protection intended by the directive [...]

englischWhen making difficult decisions, we tend to follow limited rational rules of thumb, so-called heuristics. For example, when we have to make estimates on topics that are unknown to us, we are guided by environmental information, even if it is incoherent.

Dorian Schmelz examines the effects of [...]

englischFew notions dominate discussions as persistently as the demand for (more) transparency. At times, transparency seems to have become a universal problem-solving mechanism in public discourse. Due to its lack of codification, employment law is considered to be user-unfriendly and confusing, [...]

englischIn German company law, the duty of confidentiality of supervisory board members is established as a basic principle and has been continuously tightened by the legislator. A violation is a criminal offence. At the same time, members of supervisory boards are now also to fall within the scope [...]

englischSituations in which the citizen who is willing to act turns to a respondent, receives legal information that denies the wrongfulness of the act, acts in reliance on this information and the court later considers the act to be unlawful cause considerable difficulties. A particular challenge [...]