Department of Business Humanities and Law

mobhl

Department of Business Humanities and Law

  • CBS Law
Mark
Ørberg
Assistant professor


Room: POR/18.B-1.149
Tel:
+4538152633
E-mail: mo.bhl@cbs.dk
Presentation

Mark Ørberg is an Assistant Professor at CBS where he teaches corporate law, company law, and administrative law. He holds a PhD from CBS (2022), and his research focuses on nonprofit law, enterprise foundations, philanthropy, constitutional law, and comparative law.

His academic papers appear or are forthcoming in the Yale Journal on Regulation, European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) and Intertax. In 2022, he published his doctoral dissertation, Fondsretten og den levende vedtægt (Foundation Law and the Living Charter), with Djøf Publishers.

He has also published articles for a broader audience in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Promarket.

Mark is participating in the Enterprise Foundations in Europe project (2023-2025) under Sustainable Life and Society umbrella facilitated by European Law Institute (www.europeanlawinstitute.eu) and supported by The Enterprise Foundation Project under Copenhagen Business School Center for Corporate Governance (www.enterprisefoundations.dk).

Primary research areas
  • Foundation Law
  • Corporate/Company Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Administrative Law in a business context
  • Statutory Interpretation
Administrative tasks

Supervision in:

Erstatningsretlige, fondsretlige og erhvervsforvaltningsretlige emner.

Course coordinator: 

Forvaltningsret

Curriculum Vitae
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Social media
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/mobhl
Courses
  • Owner-managed Companies
  • Business Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Company Law
Selected publications

1) Mark Ørberg / Enterprise Foundations and Faithful Agency as Drivers of Sustainable Long-termism in Philanthropy
In: European Business Organization Law Review, 26.8.2024 (European Law GS Rank #3)

2) Mark Ørberg; Louise Blichfeldt Fjord / Enterprise Foundations as ‘Non-profit Organizations’ Under the EU Pillar Two Directive
In: Intertax, Vol. 51, No. 6-7, 2023, p. 472-486 (European Law GS Rank #8)

3) Ofer Eldar; Mark Ørberg / The Anatomy of Nonprofit Control of Business Enterprise Forthcoming in: Yale Journal on Regulation 2025 (W&L Rank #1 in several categories, including Administrative Law; Governmental Law; Business, Corporations and Securities Law; Banking, Finance and Insurance Law; and Commercial and Competition Law)

4) Is It Really About Purpose? Uncovering the Economics Behind Nonprofit Ownership, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (2025) https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/05/12/is-it-really-about-purpose-uncovering-the-economics-behind-nonprofit-ownership/

5) Response: The Limits of ESG in Assessing Nonprofit Control, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (2025) https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/11/response-the-limits-of-esg-in-assessing-nonprofit-control/

6) Is Nonprofit Ownership Really About Purpose?, Promarket.org https://www.promarket.org/2025/06/10/is-nonprofit-ownership-really-about-purpose/

Publications sorted by:
2025
Ofer Eldar; Mark Ørberg / The Anatomy of Nonprofit Control of Business Enterprise
Brussels : European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) 2025, 64 p. (ECGI Working Papers in Law, No. 820/2025)
Working paper
2024
Mark Ørberg; Troels Michael Lilja; Søren Friis Hansen / Denmark : Legal Environment for Philanthropy in Europe 2024.
Brussels : Philea - Philanthropy Europe Association 2024, 29 p. (Country Profiles on the Legal and Fiscal Landscape for Philanthropy)
Report > peer review
Mark Ørberg / Enterprise Foundations and Faithful Agency as Drivers of Sustainable Long-termism in Philanthropy
In: European Business Organization Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, 12.2024, p. 765-807
Journal article > peer review
2023
Mark Ørberg; Peter Koerver Schmidt / Constitutional Limits on Taxation in Denmark
In: Review of International and European Economic Law, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2023, p. 92-103
Journal article > peer review
Louise Blichfeldt Fjord; Mark Ørberg; Peter Koerver Schmidt / Denmark
In: Fiscal Policies to Mitigate Climate Change. ed. /Marilyne Sadowsky. Cambridge : Intersentia 2023, p. 289-309 (Ius Comparatum)
Book chapter > peer review
Mark Ørberg; Louise Blichfeldt Fjord / Enterprise Foundations as ‘Non-profit Organizations’ Under the EU Pillar Two Directive
In: Intertax, Vol. 51, No. 6-7, 2023, p. 472-486
Journal article > peer review
Mark Ørberg; Anker Brink Lund / Fondes rammevilkår : Aktuelle udfordringer og potentielle løsninger.
In: Erhvervsjuridisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023, p. 33-43
Journal article > peer review
Mark Ørberg / The Promulgation Theory on Statutory Interpretation and the Rule of Law in Denmark
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2023, 27 p. (CBS LAW Research Paper, No. 23-02)
Working paper
Mark Ørberg / The Promulgation Theory on Statutory Interpretation and the Rule of Law in Denmark
In: Rule of Law. ed. /Jane Reichel; Mauro Zamboni. Stockholm : Stockholm Institute for Scandinavian Law 2023, p. 95-120 (Scandinavian Studies in Law, Vol. 69)
Book chapter > peer review
Mark Ørberg; Nikolaj Bak-Christensen / Øvre aldersgrænser i fondsvedtægter
In: Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen, Vol. 157, No. 12, 2023, p. 38-48
Journal article > peer review
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Outside activities
  • Boston Consulting Group. Consulting services (2019-2020)

  • Bech-Bruun (Legal Consultant) 2022-2024