3rd Annual Conference of the Oxford Business Law Blog

Centros and European Company Law: Twenty Years of Living Dangerously

Date

15 Mar 2019 - 15 Mar 2019

Location

University of Oxford

Attendee List

Nikita	Aggarwal	University of Oxford
John	Armour	University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Simon	Bahlinger	University of Heidelberg
The Honourable Margaret	Beazley	Notre Dame Sydney Australia
Marco	Becht	Université libre de Bruxelles
Martin	Bengtzen	London School of Economics
Jonathan	Chan	University of Oxford
Anna	Christie	University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law
Blanaid	Clarke	Trinity College Dublin
Pierre-Henri	Conac	University of Luxembourg
Marco	Corradi	Stockholm University / University of Oxford
Steven	Davidoff Solomon	Berkeley Center for Law and Business
Paul	Davies	Centre for Commercial Law, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
Hans	De Wulf	Ghent University
Horst	Eidenmüller	University of Oxford
Andreas	Engert	University of Mannheim
Luca	Enriques	University of Oxford
Eilis	Ferran	University of Cambridge Law Faculty and Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL)
Jill	Fisch	University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jason	Fu	University of Oxford
Martin	Gelter	Fordham University School of Law
Carsten	Gerner-Beuerle	University College London
Louise	Gullifer	Oxford University
Gérard	Hertig	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Roderic	Kermarec	University of Oxford
Vanessa	Knapp	Queen Mary University
Maximilian	Leydecker	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
J S	Liptrap	University of Cambridge
Eva	Micheler	LSE
Federico	Mucciarelli	SOAS University of London & University Modena
Jatine	Patel	University of Oxford
Sarah	Paterson	London School of Economics and Political Science
Jennifer	Payne	Law Faculty, University of Oxford
Alvaro	Pereira	University of California, Berkeley
Giovanni	Petroboni	Commercial Law Centre - Harris Manchester College
Elizabeth	Pollman	Loyola Marymount University
Arad	Reisberg	Brunel Univeristy London
Wolf-Georg	Ringe	University of Hamburg
Alexander	Schall	Leuphana Law School, University Lüneburg
Philine	Scheer	University of Oxford
Edmund	Schuster	London School of Economics
Anne-Lise	Sibony	University of Louvain
Mathias	Siems	European University Institute / Durham University
Christoph	Teichmann	Wuerzburg University
Tobias	Tröger	Goethe University Frankfurt, House of Finance
Kristin	Van Zwieten	University of Oxford
Bojana	Vitanova	University of Oxford
Josef	Weinzierl	University of Oxford
Thom	Wetzer	University of Oxford
Amit	Zac	University of Oxford

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3rd Annual Conference of the Oxford Business Law Blog

Oxford | 15 March 2019, 08:30am

Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford

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Conference Overview

March 2019 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Centros case (C-212/97), without doubt the most influential judgment rendered by the (then) Court of Justice in the field of European company law. Along with Überseering (2002) and Inspire Art (2003), Centros (1999) eased the cross-border mobility of corporations in the European Union, inducing fear of forum-shopping within the borders of the single-market, and prompting calls for a top-down harmonisation of corporate standards.

Against this backdrop, the editors of the Oxford Business Law Blog selected ‘Centros and European Company Law: Twenty Years of Living Dangerously’ as the theme of its third annual conference. Two weeks before Brexit would become effective, the conference provided an appropriate forum to discuss the present and future of European Company Law.

In addition, the theme invited a broader reflection on the dynamics of regulatory arbitrage and competition within the European continent and beyond, both in company law and adjacent areas. Amongst other pressing issues, the following questions were addressed: to what extent does the rise of technology redefine corporate mobility and fuel regulatory arbitrage? What is the legacy of Centros in insolvency law?

Conference Participation

This event was by invitation only. For any enquiries, please email oblb@law.ox.ac.uk.

About the Oxford Business Law Blog

The Oxford Business Law Blog is a forum for the exchange of ideas and the reporting of new developments in all aspects of business law. Its editorial board is comprised of Luca Enriques, Dan Awrey, Genevieve Helleringer, Horst Eindenmüller, Kristin van Zwieten, Umakanth Varottil and Andreas Engert. They are assisted by Roderic Kermarec, Vaclav Janecek, Jonathan Chan, Felix Pflücke, Bojana Vitanova, Leah Grolman and Jason Fu.

The 3^rd Annual Conference of the OBLB was generously supported by Travers Smith, the European Corporate Governance Institute, the Oxford Law Faculty, the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College and the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.