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Talking law and economics at ETH ZurichCommon Law vs. Civil Law – Prof. Holger Spamann (Harvard)For a long time, scholars have been classifying most legal systems around the world as falling within one of two inherently different categories: common or civil law systems. While the former (common law), rooted in England and practiced also in the US, involves precedent or deference to previously published judicial opinion; the latter (civil law), practiced in continental Europe and elsewhere in the world, does not – or so many still think. In this episode of the CLE vlog series, Prof. Holger Spamann (Harvard Law School) examines the myths and the reality of common and civil law with Alessandro Tacconelli (ET...
2023-08-1117 min
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation - HDTraditional Securities Regulation and Disruptive Technology Firms[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
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Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - SDTraditional Securities Regulation and Disruptive Technology Firms[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
2015-07-021h 08Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation - HDRegulating Financial Innovation: Of Credit Ratings and Hedge Fund Activism[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
2015-07-0253 minCenter for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - SDRegulating Financial Innovation: Of Credit Ratings and Hedge Fund Activism[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
2015-07-0253 minCenter for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation - HDThe Regulation of OTC Markets and Darkpools[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
2015-07-021h 31Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - SDThe Regulation of OTC Markets and Darkpools[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
2015-07-021h 31Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation - HDWho Should Make Securities Law?[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
2015-07-021h 40Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - SDWho Should Make Securities Law?[Conf.] The New EU Financial Markets Architecture – International Conference | In the past years, global financial markets have seen an unprecedented wave of regulation. Regulators worldwide have significantly expanded regulatory reach to formerly unregulated markets (e.g. OTC markets and dark pools), trading practices (e.g. short sales), and market participants (e.g. fund managers), and intensified existing regulation such as disclosure duties or the ban on presumptively abusive trading practices. In the wake of this flood of ever more detailed and far reaching rules, policy makers, regulators and capital market scholars run the risk of losing sight of the "big pi...
2015-07-021h 40Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation - HDPrinzipien der europäischen Unternehmens- und FinanzmarktregulierungIm neuen CAS-Schwerpunkt sollen Prinzipien der europäischen Unternehmens- und Finanzmarktregulierung entwickelt werden. Zwei Fragen stehen im Zentrum der Auftaktveranstaltung: besteht ein Regulierungsanlass, der ein Eingreifen des europäischen Gesetzgebers rechtfertigt? Und wenn ja, wie sollte der europäische Gesetzgeber tätig werden? Die Teilnehmer beleuchten die Thematik aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven: Katharina Pistor wird auf der Basis US-amerikanischer Erfahrungen primär Fragen der Finanzmarktregulierung erörtern. Klaus Hopts Schwerpunkt wird das europäische Unternehmensrecht sein. | Klaus J. Hopt war bis 2008 Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht Hamburg. | Katharina Pistor ist Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law an der Co...
2013-12-193h 00Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus EU Business Regulation (LMU) - SDPrinzipien der europäischen Unternehmens- und FinanzmarktregulierungIm neuen CAS-Schwerpunkt sollen Prinzipien der europäischen Unternehmens- und Finanzmarktregulierung entwickelt werden. Zwei Fragen stehen im Zentrum der Auftaktveranstaltung: besteht ein Regulierungsanlass, der ein Eingreifen des europäischen Gesetzgebers rechtfertigt? Und wenn ja, wie sollte der europäische Gesetzgeber tätig werden? Die Teilnehmer beleuchten die Thematik aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven: Katharina Pistor wird auf der Basis US-amerikanischer Erfahrungen primär Fragen der Finanzmarktregulierung erörtern. Klaus Hopts Schwerpunkt wird das europäische Unternehmensrecht sein. | Klaus J. Hopt war bis 2008 Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht Hamburg. | Katharina Pistor ist Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law an der Co...
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