20/01/2022
An opportunity for all EU law, company law & sustainability interested followers: Beate Sjåfjell's monograph 'Towards a Sustainable European Company Law: A Normative Analysis of the Objectives of EU Law, with the Takeover Directive as a Test Case', is now freely available at SSRN with the kind permission of Kluwer Law International. Here, in Beate's own words, is why she is sharing her nearly 600 page manuscript in this way:
'In preparing my lectures on Ensuring through for LLM students at College of Europe, I used my own analysis of the objectives of EU Treaty law in my doctoral thesis as a starting point. In my presentation of sustainability as an emerging overarching objective in EU law, I go back to the start in 1957 and through to the Lisbon Treaty, drawing also on case law and high-level policy declarations in my analysis of the objectives, horizontal integration rules and rules on policy coherence. Although I have published on this since, I wanted to make my original analysis more easily available to students and scholars, so I contacted Kluwer Law International and with their kind permission, I have made my monograph of 2009 freely available at SSRN. The analysis of the general objectives of the EU as a framework for analysing the specific objectives of EU company and securities law, is just one part of the thesis - which is also tested out through an analysis of the 2004 Takeover Directive.
The title of my monograph, Towards a Sustainable European Company Law, is unfortunately still topical - we are moving towards, but still far from the goal of a European legal infrastructure for business that fully promotes sustainability.
I hope this will also reach some of the students and scholars who previously have asked me for access to my monograph which I was then unable to give and without free copies to send out. I totally understand that these academic books are far too costly to purchase for many.
With gratitude to Kluwer, who not only said yes, but sent me the whole manuscript as published - including forewords by Jaap Winter and Takis Tridimas and my own preface where I thank all the wonderful people who contributed, notably Jukka Mähönen - here's the whole shebang!
I am grateful to Kluwer Law International for allowing me to share my monograph published in 2009: 'Towards a Sustainable European : A Normative Analysis of the Objectives of , with the Takeover Directive as a Test Case', on SSRN - freely downloadable for all interested!'
This volume, originally published in 2009, undertakes a pre-Lisbon Treaty analysis of the objectives of EU Treaty law as a framework for analysing the objective
