Company Law and Economic Protectionism: New Challenges to European Integration

A collection of essays examining the conflict between EU law and company law, covering a broad range of topics including takeovers, mergers and restructuring, sovereign wealth funds, and proportionality of ownership and control.

Ulf Bernitz, Jur Dr (Stockholm), Dr Jur h.c. (Copenhagen), MA (Oxon) is Professor of European Law at Stockholm University and the Director of the Oxford/Stockholm Wallenberg Venture in European Law. His main fields of research are European internal market, competition, and intellectual property law. He is former President of the FIDE (Federation Internationale de Droit Europeen).

Wolf-Georg Ringe, MJur (Oxon) 2004), PhD (University of Bonn) 2006, is Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford, Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law and Fellow at Christ Church. He is an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and was a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in Spring 2010.