Suchergebnisse für Rechtsvergleich Deutschland

Ist die aktienrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit noch zeitgemäss?

An analysis of the board members’ and directors’ liability law shows that its present form has significant deficits: Confronting board members with a liability excee­ding their individual risk capacity causes risk adversity and a crowding out effect within the pool of potential board members. In the light of these functional deficits, it does not come as a surprise that the track record of…

Innovation durch den OR 2020-Entwurf: Die Vorschriften über die Liquidation

The draft version of the new Swiss Law of Obligations (OR 2020) suggests introducing a novel regime for restitution (called “Liquidation”) into the general part of the OR. The new provisions would cover all cases where contractual performances have to be restored, ranging from the invalidity of a contract to its termination for breach. It specifies that if a party cannot return what it has…

Die Modernisierung des schweizerischen Abtretungsrechts –Bemerkungen zum Zessionsrecht im OR 2020

The draft for a new General Part of the Swiss Code of Obligations presented by law professors in 2013 includes interesting proposals for a revision of the Swiss assignment law. Following a number of international and foreign precedents, the draft suggests to restrict the effects of contractual no-assignment clauses to the relationship between the debtor and the creditor/assignor, a reform which…

Wie weiter im schweizerischen Wettbewerbsrecht?

The Swiss Act on Competition Law is now 20 years old. The revision proposal of 2012 failed in Parliament not because a revision would not be necessary but rather because the proposal was overloaded and pursued conflicting aims. The author argues that a new revision should be prepared without further delay. There are at least three reasons for this. First, an institutional reform remains necessary…