Report 2002: The Law Department (JUR)
Howitzvej 13, 3.
DK-2000 Frederiksberg C
Head of Department: Peter Møgelvang-Hansen
Telefon: +45 3815 2626
Fax: +45 3815 2610
E-mail: cp.jur@cbs.dk
DK-2000 Frederiksberg C
Head of Department: Peter Møgelvang-Hansen
Telefon: +45 3815 2626
Fax: +45 3815 2610
E-mail: cp.jur@cbs.dk
The Law Department field of research is commercial law, i.e. the part of the legal system concerning problems relevant to the business community players (enterprises, employees, consumers, interest groups, public authorities, etc.). In general, Department research is characterised by a functional academic approach based on real business problems, and by an integrated national and international (mainly European) point of view. In a number of instances, the legal approach is combined with an economic approach making it possible to explore the legal implications of economics and vice versa.
European integration law is an important area for the Department and its staff. It concerns the rules of the European Union, the European Economic Area, etc., forming the basis of a single market. By virtue of its position in this area and through international publications, symposia and seminars as well as networking activities, the Department is one of the leading centres of European integration law in the Nordic countries.
For many years, its areas of strength included labour law, competition law, contract law, credit law and European integration law. As a result of the addition of younger researchers in recent years, the Department has extended its research programme to include other areas such as interaction between law and economics, foundation law, tax law, market law, intellectual property law, IT law, etc.
Commercial law is subject to research in fruitful interaction with other Faculty activities, including a number of CBS study programmes involving commercial law, e.g. the BSc and MSc programmes in Business Administration and Commercial Law and the MSc programmes in Business Administration and Auditing.
Highlights of 2002
- As part of the Credit Law Project 2002-2004, a credit law group consisting of practicians from the finance sector and university researchers was set up and in 2002 held a conference with approx. 60 participants. One book with contributions from members of the group has been published so far.
- In April 2002, the Department and the Danish Ministry of Taxation organised a joint conference on e-commerce and taxation with more than 200 participants.
- In the informatics area, two PhD projects (on international e-commerce and media convergence, respectively) were initiated, and a PhD project on international private law and procedural law issues concerning e-commerce illustrated by American and European law was completed.
- In September 2002, the Department was in charge of the 18th Nordic Conference on Legal Informatics with participation of almost 100 representatives of the research and business communities and public authorities in the Nordic countries.
Legal research is differentiated from economics research in that it is bound to the language of the jurisdiction in question. Despite the fact that rules of law in other languages than Danish are increasingly relevant to Danish commercial law, naturally a very significant part of commercial law research still concerns the Danish legal system. Because of the modest size of the Danish legal system, publication of research results concerning Danish law are only of limited interest to the readership of, say, French, German or British journals.
As illustrated by the below Figure, foreign-language publications nevertheless constituted about a fourth of the total number of Department publications. The foreign-language and Nordic-language publications in the graph comprise 13 books, including a PhD thesis, and 94 articles in journals and anthologies.
The Department and its staff have various working relationships with enterprises and public authorities increasingly resulting in external funding of research projects. This trend is illustrated by the below Figure:
The external funding acquired in 2002 included the Credit Law Project 2002-2004 (see Highlights of 2002), a PhD project on credit law, (partial) funding of a PhD project on tax law and a study of the effects of new consumer purchase regulations on the pricing of enterprises.
Last updated by Anders Krag 09/02/2005
