Companies, Markets and Sustainability

Thank you for following us! The work of the Research Group Companies, Markets & Sustainability (the Oslo Company Law Group, 2012-2022) is now concluded. The work continues under the Research Group Sustainability Law (2022-)! Follow Sustainability Law on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainability-law/

Sustainability Law | LinkedIn Sustainability Law | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Sustainability Law conducts interdisciplinary analyses of law aiming to contribute to sustainability as a global goal. | The overarching theme of the research group Sustainability Law is to conduct analyses of law with the teleological aim of identifying...

Several PhD Candidate openings at Det juridiske fakultet i Oslo - deadline for applications 31 May!

Interested in working with us at Company Law Group Selskaper, markeder og bærekraft on challenging issues of Sustainability Law, Sustainable Business Law and Circular Economy Law? Please contact Beate Sjåfjell or Eléonore Maitre-Ekern!



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PhD Fellowships in Law at the Faculty of Law (224536) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Fellowships in Law at the Faculty of Law (224536), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, May 31, 2022

We have four research assistant positions available for the coming academic year, and we look forward to welcoming new colleagues in the projects & ! Here's the call: Deadline 3 March - don't hesitate to apply!

Two positions as research assistant in Circular Energy - Institutt for privatrett UiO:Energy project Circular Energy for a Sustainable Circular Economy (Circular Energy)

We have four research assistant positions available for the coming academic year, and we look forward to welcoming new colleagues in the projects & ! Here's the call: Deadline 3 March - don't hesitate to apply!

Position as research assistant in project Futuring Nordics - Institutt for privatrett Research Assistant position in the UiO:Nordic project Futuring Sustainable Nordic Business Models (Futuring Nordics)

The European Commission has put forward its proposal for a Directive, and Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka Mähönen have integrated a first analysis of the proposal in their revised paper and the Misleading vs Directive! Check out their blog post on the same at Oxford Business Law Blog today. Let us know what you think!

Corporate Purpose and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Proposal After decades of being dormant, corporate purpose has become a hot topic of discussion again in company law and corporate governance. In the European Union, the tension between the European societal approach to companies with its long history and the US-originated efficiency-based approach with its....

Check out this new paper on and the misleading shareholder vs stakeholder dichotomy on SSRN! Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka Mähönen write about core issues in the debate, and seek to dismantle some strawmen on the road towards sustainability. Let us know what you think!

Corporate Purpose and the Misleading Shareholder vs Stakeholder Dichotomy After decades of being dormant, corporate purpose has become a hot topic of discussion again in company law and corporate governance. In the European Union, the

Calling all students at the Faculty of Law University of Oslo! Research Assistant positions available in two of our projects! Don't miss out on this opportunity! Deadline 3 March!

Beate Sjåfjell Jukka Mähönen Eléonore Maitre-Ekern https://www.jus.uio.no/ifp/english/about/vacancies/

Public defence of Trude Myklebust's PhD thesis today! Fair, orderly and sustainable financial markets? Open to all interested to follow through Zoom - congratulations and good luck to our brilliant colleague! https://www.jus.uio.no/ifp/english/research/news-and-events/events/disputations/myklebust-trude.html

Come work with us in our Futuring Nordics Project! Deadline for application: 3 March 2022.

Position as research assistant in project Futuring Nordics - Institutt for privatrett Research Assistant position in the UiO:Nordic project Futuring Sustainable Nordic Business Models (Futuring Nordics)

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!'

Towards a Sustainable European Company Law: A Normative Analysis of the Objectives of EU Law, with the Takeover Directive as a Test Case 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

Lunch seminar today at 12 noon CET! in (Swiss) antitrust law, by guest presenter Jasmina Bukovac. Open to all - held through !

Sustainability in (Swiss) antitrust law - The Faculty of Law Welcome to our lunch seminar with presentation by Jasmina Bukovac, University of Zürich. Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

Time to wield the axe on lending for ! Our Adjunct Research Professor Jay Cullen blogging on the problem of talking about while destroying the environment everything depends on.

Seeing the forest for the trees: COP26 and banks’ failures to protect the roots of climate mitigation - Research By Jay Cullen — 3 November, 2021