The main purpose of the course is to examine and discuss topical issues of corporate law on a comparative basis. In particular, agency problems between shareholders, the management and other corporate actors will be identified and solutions to these conflicts will be discussed. In this regard, American and English law representing the common law tradition and German law representing an important Continental European tradition will be analysed. In addition, where appropriate, we will make references to other national legal system and consider supra-national initiatives such as harmonising measures of the European Union, as well as international corporate governance standards.
As the course is given in English, students are expected to have sufficient language skills.
Since the course includes a guest speaker, the lectures will not be held on regular schedule but will be completed in a two weeks period. The exact dates will be announced at the beginning of the academic term. The lectures are scheduled not to conflict with midterm or final exams. In order to avoid any conflict with students' regular schedule, the lectures will be held at evenings.
Due to the intense schedule of the course, students are expected to attend %75 of the lectures.