文档介绍：COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
OF NON-ANIZATIONS
The economic importance of the non-profit sector is growing rapidly in the
US and Europe. However, the law has not kept abreast with its development.
The European Court of Justice has extended certain freedoms of the EC
Treaty to non-anizations, and more case law is expected to follow
in the near future, but the observations, theories, solutions and legal and
non-legal rules in this field are manifold. The chances of harmonizing the
law on a European level are slim.
Despite these differences, mon core of international corporate
governance problems and regulatory solutions can be seen. This volume of
essays brings together a variety of international experts from both corporate
governance and governance of non-anizations pare the two
areas and explore the lessons that can be learned parative
corporate governance for non-anizations.
klaus j. hopt is Professor of Law and Director Emeritus at the Max
Planck Institute parative and International Private Law, Hamburg.
thomas von hippel is judge in Hamburg and has been a project
coordinator of several interdisciplinary and parative research
projects on non-anizations, foundations, taxation and
philanthropy.
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INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE LAW AND
FINANCIAL MARKET REGULATION
Recent years have seen an upsurge of change and reform in corporate law and
financial market regulation internationally as the corporate and institutional
investor sector increasingly turns to the international financial markets. This
follows large-scale institutional and regulatory reform after a series of interna-
tional corporate governance and financial disclosure scandals exemplified by
the collapse of Enron in the US. There is now a great demand for analysis in
this area from the acad