Report 2003: Law Department (JUR)
Law Department (JUR): Research Report 2003
The Law Department field of research is commercial law, i.e. the part of the legal system concerning issues relevant to the business community. In general, Department research is characterised by a functional academic approach based on real business problems, and by an integrated national and international 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, media law, international private law and law of procedure, 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.
Hightlights 2003
- In November 2003, the Department held an international research conference on EU Electronic Commerce Law with the participation of almost 50 representatives of the research and business communities and public authorities in the countries of Northern Europe in particular.
- The Center for Credit Law and Capital Market Law (CKK) was established end-2003 with a view to further intensifying research activities and cooperation with the business community in the fields of credit law and capital market law and making them more visible.
- The development over a long period of time of teaching and study materials for virtual courses in commercial law on HD Part I resulted in a CD-ROM which was introduced when the virtual courses in commercial law started in the autumn semester.
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 is 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 10 books, including a PhD thesis, 95 articles in journals and anthologies and 19 examples of other published research.
Figure 1
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:
Figure 2
External funds mainly comprise the credit law project 2002-2004, a PhD project in the field of credit law and (partial) funding of a PhD project in tax law.
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