Center for Business Law

Research and teaching at the department is focused on laws that are relevant to business. It is mainly directed to the following areas:

• The law on associations (company law)
• Trade law, mainly focusing on the law of transportation (incl. admiralty law), the law on sales, contract law, credit- and insolvency law, legal regulations relating to financial instruments and international trade law
• Tax law with special regard to the taxation of enterprises
• Market law including competition law 
• Credit- and Insolvency law, i.a. including the enforcement of claims, bankruptcy, company reconstruction, economic crimes, EU-law and conventions.

The legal methods in use are mainly traditional, but strongly influenced by European law, international instruments like treaties and trade agreements as well as multi-lateral and bi-lateral agreements. Comparative law methods are often used and studies of foreign law forms is an important part of current research. Hereby, a special part of the research is directed towards the interaction between law and economic theory within the research domains on :

• Law on associations
• Competition law
• Law on contracts
• Market law
• Computation of taxes as well as damages
• Credit- and insolvency law