The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Family constitutions in family-owned firms are becoming increasingly popular around the world. While some, though not much, research examining this trend has come from a management research perspective, legal scholarship of family constitutions is even scarcer. The first volume of this new series brings together chapters from the ‘Law and Management of Family Firms’ conference which took place at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, presenting legal, managerial, historical and comparative perspectives of family constitutions. Family Firms and Family Constitution delves deeply into topics as diverse as ownership, succession, governance, justice and more, all from a managerial and legal perspective from around the world. The pioneering Law and Management of Family Firms series publishes volumes following the annual Hamburg Conference: Law and Management of Family Firms, the international and interdisciplinary forum for family business research. The conference is organized by the Max Planck Institute and the Institute for Mittelstand and Family Firms (HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration). It brings together two distinct and previously disconnected disciplines of law and management, benefiting scholars, lawyers, consultants, and family office practitioners.

The examination systematically addresses the typical areas of conflict with regard to a closed corporation. In do so, legally-based comparative experience and findings from business economics are applied, while the European private company is consistently taken into account.

The renowned authors of this ECFR special volume systematically develop legal standards and regulatory frameworks for closed corporations in Europe (including of course the Societas Privata Europaea), putting a strong focus on the economic practice and efficiency. The profound, in-depth analysis of the objectives and strategies comes to groundbreaking insights and also offers specific solutions for a multitude of practical aspects.

Große Gesellschaftsrechtsentscheidungen werden in der Aufsatz- und Kommentarliteratur häufig auf ihre Leitsätze reduziert. Durch diese Dekontextualisierung und Dehistorisierung gehen nicht selten wertvolle Informationen verloren. Dieser Band unternimmt es, ausgewählte Entscheidungen von 1912 bis 2015 sachverhaltsbezogen aufzuarbeiten und die Geschichten hinter diesen großen Fällen ans Licht zu heben. Aus einer Fülle von Einzelbeobachtungen entsteht so eine lebendige Gesamtsicht auf die Herstellung und Darstellung gesellschaftsrechtlicher Entscheidungen und ihrer Protagonisten. Zugleich soll der Blick hinter die Kulissen dazu beitragen, implizites Wissen um gesellschaftsrechtliche Diskursverläufe explizit zu machen. Ein solches "Storytelling" verspricht nicht nur frische Impulse für Rechtsprechung und Rechtswissenschaft, sondern eignet sich auch zur gesellschaftsrechtlichen Normvermittlung in Hörsaal und unternehmerischer Praxis. Mit Beiträgen von: Gregor Bachmann, Walter Bayer, Petra Buck-Heeb, Elena Dubovitskaya, Holger Fleischer, Jakob Hahn, Elke Heinrich, Jens Koch, Stefan Korch, Thilo Kuntz, Lars Leuschner, Jan Lieder, Sebastian Mock, Valentin Müller, Jan-Erik Schirmer, Jessica Schmidt, Klaus-Ulrich Schmolke, Jan Thiessen, Jennifer Trinks, Till Wansleben, Frauke Wedemann, Johannes Wertenbruch