Corporate Boards in Law and Practice
A Comparative Analysis in Europe
Edited by Paul Davies, Klaus Hopt, Richard Nowak, and Gerard van Solinge
Author Information
Edited by Paul Davies, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, Klaus Hopt, Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Richard Nowak, Senior advisor and lecturer, Clifford Chance Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen, and Gerard van Solinge, Professor of company law and Attorney, Radboud University Nijmegen and Allen & Overy Amsterdam
Klaus J. Hopt is Professor and Director (emeritus), of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. He is an expert for the German Parliament, the Constitutional Court and a number of international institutions. His research interests are European corporate, capital market, financial law and corporate governance issues. He has published many books and articles in these fields.
Gerard van Solinge is a lawyer and counsel at Allen & Overy. He is full professor of corporate law since 1997 at the Radboud University Nijmegen and managing director at Van der Heijden Institute, Research Department for Corporate Law of the Research Centre Company & Law. He specialises in corporate governance, corporate litigation, mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, international corporate law and Dutch Carribean Company law.
Paul Davies is the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law and Professorial Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Oxford. He is a deputy chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee. His research areas are corporate governance, corporate finance, regulation of securities markets and collective representation of employees.
Richard J Nowak is Senior advisor with Clifford Chance Amsterdam and lecturer at the Radboud University Nijmegen and substitute-judge in the Court of Appeal Arnhem. Co-author of a Dutch textbook on company law and author of publications on Dutch company law and corporate governance.
Contributors:
Paul Davies, University of Oxford
Klaus J. Hopt, Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Richard G.J. Nowak, Clifford Chance Amsterdam
Gerard van Solinge, Allen & Overy
Koen Geens
Alain Pietrancosta, Sorbonne Law School
Paul-Henri Dubois, BCTG & Associés
Romain Garçon, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Markus Roth, University of Marburg
Guido Ferrarini, University of Genoa
Gian Giacomo Peruzzo, Genoa Law School
Marta Roberti, University of Genoa
Stanislaw Soltysinski, A. Mickiewicz University
Andrés Recalde Castells, Universidad Autónoma
Francisco León Sanz, Universidad de Huelva
Nuria Latorre Chiner, University of Valencia
Rolf Skog, Ministry of Justice, Sweden
Erik Sjöman, Vinge, Sweden
Peter Böckli, Böckli Bodmer & Partner, Basel.
