Forskningsprojekt

Corporate Governance Post Enron

Centret anordnade under hösten 2004 ett internationellt seminarium tillsammans med The International Financial Law Unit Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) och The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). Seminariet ”Corporate Governance Post Enron” hölls i London den 17 och den 18 september 2004 hos BIICL. Ansvariga: professor Jan Kleineman, Centret, professor Joseph J Norton, CCLS, och jur. dr Mads Andenæs, BIICL.

Finansiella skandaler som Enron och Worldcom har framkallat en aktiv debatt om och ett antal förändringar av den existerande regleringen för bolagsstyrning i Europa och USA. Vid detta seminarium diskuterade ledande experter den senaste tidens utveckling och innebörden av den. Transparens, avslöjanden, bolagsledningens ansvar, interna strukturer, nuvarande globala budgetperioders längd och revisionskommittéers roll är några av de ämnen som behandlades under seminariets två dagar.

Områden som behandlades under seminariet:

Of Gatekeepers Revisited Keynote Speaker: Professor John C Coffee Jr, Adolf A Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and Director of the Columbia Law School’s Centre on Corporate Governance Corporate

Governance and the Impact on Fiduciary Duty Notions: Professor Deborah A DeMott, David F Cavers Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

Current Global Accounting Dimensions of Corporate Governance: Professor Stanley Siegel, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Corporate Governance Disclosures in Europe: Professor Jonathan Rickford, Director, Company Law Centre, BIICL

Corporate Governance Issues Germany: Professor Uwe H Schneider, Professor of Civil, German and International Business Law, University of Darmstadt

Corporate Governance Issues France: Professor Michel Menjucq, University of Paris, Panthéon/Sorbonne

Corporate Governance Issues UK: Stephen Spivey, Director, Corporate Law and Governance Directorate, Department of Trade and Industry, UK

The Sarbanes Oxley Act; Parallel Regulations, Conflicting Systems and Extraterritoriality: Carl-Olof Blomqvist, Senior Vice President, Group Function Legal Affairs, Ericsson

Corporate Governance in Sweden – the Rise of the Institutional Shareholders: Professor Rolf Skog, Deputy Director, Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, Honorary Professor in Company Law, Århus School of Economics; and Licentiate in Economics

Nomination, Composition and Responsibilities of the Board in Swedish Listed Companies: Claes Beyer, Of Counsel and Head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Practice Group, Mannheimer Swartling Law firm, Gothenburg

The Role of Audit Committees in Swedish Listed Companies: Professor Per Thorell, Former Professor of Corporate Law, Uppsala University, Head of Technical Department, Ernst & Young, Sweden