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REFORMING THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS

AND COMPANY LAW

STUDIES IN FRENCH AND GERMAN LAW

RÉFORMER LE DROIT DES OBLIGATIONS

ET LE DROIT DES SOCIÉTÉS

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COLLECTION TRANS EUROPE EXPERTS

VOLUME 8

REFORMING THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS

AND COMPANY LAW

STUDIES IN FRENCH AND GERMAN LAW

RÉFORMER LE DROIT DES OBLIGATIONS

ET LE DROIT DES SOCIÉTÉS

ÉTUDES DE DROIT FRANÇAIS ET ALLEMAND

Edited by / Sous la direction de

Walter DORALT and / et Olivier DESHAYES

Société de législation comparée 28 rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris, France

Tél : (33) 1 44 39 86 23 Fax : (33) 1 44 39 86 28 e-mail : slc@legiscompare.com

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Table of Contents

/ Table des matières

Foreword

Walter DORALT and Olivier DESHAYES 7

I

LAW OF OBLIGATIONS

LE DROIT DES OBLIGATIONS

A.

Reforming the Law of Obligations

La réforme du droit des obligations

The Reform of the Law of Obligations in France. Methods and Prospects

Guillaume MEUNIER 15

Réforme du droit des contrats : l’expérience allemande

Reinhard ZIMMERMANN 25

B.

Specific Issues of the Law of Obligations

Questions choisies de droit des obligations

Breach of Contract and Abusive Behavior

La rupture abusive des contrats

La rupture abusive

Carole AUBERT de VINCELLES 49 Rupture abusive. A Few Comparative Remarks

Philipp EICHENHOFER 63

Adaptation of Long Term Contracts

L’adaptation des contrats de longue durée

Contrat Law: Adapting Long Term Contracts. Flexibility and Adaptation Mechanisms Employed by Contracting Parties

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II

COMPANY LAW

LE DROIT DES SOCIÉTÉS

A.

Reforming Company Law

La réforme du droit des sociétés

Key Trends in French Company Law Reforms over the Last Decade Dorothée GALLOIS-COCHET and Marie CAFFIN-MOI

Comparative Remarks from a German Point of View

Observations comparatives inspirées du droit allemand

91

Legal Capital. Modernising the German GmbH

Rainer KULMS 109

The Growing Importance of Corporate Governance and Capital Markets Law in Germany

Rüdiger VEIL 113

Regulating Directors’ Duties, their Enforcement and the Business Judgment Rule

Walter DORALT 119

B.

Regulatory Competition in Company Law

and Corporate Insolvency Law

La concurrence normative en droit des sociétés

et des entreprises en difficulté

Company Mobility and Regulatory Competition in the European Union and under French Company Law

Andra COTIGA 127

Concurrence normative et redressement d’entreprise. L’étude du cas Rodenstock

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FOREWORD

Walter DORALT

and Olivier DESHAYES



It is a privilege to introduce this book. Moreover, it is for us an undeserved privilege, as our role has merely been to organise a conference in Hamburg as part of our work within a pre-existing international research group, directed by Professor Judith Rochfeld.

But above all it is a pleasure to see the papers presented in this conference being published and thus shared with a wider audience in this bilingual volume of the Société de Législation Comparée (SLC).

It seems to us that the pre-existing international research group alluded to above requires a brief introduction and explanation. A few years back, in 2009, five French colleagues had founded Trans-Europe Experts (TEE), a European network of law experts based in Paris. This step was motivated by a number of factors, amongst which was the observation that the landscape of law and law-making in Europe had undergone a gradual change. Normative developments seemed to take a different path from what experience might have suggested. An appreciation of the ever-increasing amount of legislation along with the time pressure with which it was (and is) often prepared also prompted the formation of the network, as did the recurring observation that sound comparative groundwork was missing. As co-Presidents of TEE, Professors Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson and Judith Rochfeld thought it necessary correct these shortcomings and, with the support of TEE, gathered a group of other European legal research

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private

Law, Hamburg.

 Professeur de droit privé, directeur du LEJEP (Laboratoire d’études juridiques et politiques

de l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise, EA-4458), secrétaire général adjoint de TEE (Trans Europe Experts) : olivier.deshayes@u-cergy.fr

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institutions to team up and cooperate as a Groupe de Recherche Européen

(GDRE). Its purpose is to strengthen links between the research institutions involved, based in France, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg, and to collectively address the challenges mentioned above. This initiative has received the generous support of the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), making this work possible.

As for the substance, the GDRE aims at producing academic research and guidance for law and law-making in the wider context of the new normative environment in the European Union. The topics dealt with are European by nature, including important national developments. As a general theme, the GDRE addresses the new normative developments in Europe (Nouvelles normativités en Europe). As a part of this ambitious endeavour, a first and perhaps more modest step is to develop a better understanding of the differences shaping European national jurisdictions today. Thus, the GDRE intends to provide a forum in which researchers from different backgrounds may exchange ideas and can learn from each other in meetings and conferences, such as the conference held in Hamburg. More specifically, during its first year (2011) the group focused on “optional instruments”, having organised a conference in Paris in November 2011 dealing with the proposal of a European regulation on a Common European Sales Law (CESL). The editors of this book were present and still recall the lively exchange of ideas on that occasion. The contributions were then also published in a 2012 volume of the SLC series, along with a comparative annex featuring the texts of the draft CESL, its predecessors and texts with which a comparison of the draft seemed useful.1 A second conference was held in March 2012 in Paris, this time on the broader topic of optional instruments in different areas of the law, held in connection with TEE’s annual meeting. The research directed by Professors Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson and Martine Béhar-Touchais on the implementation of optional instruments in European private law was presented on this occasion.2

The contributions gathered in this book were presented on November 1st and 2nd, 2012 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg during the third meeting of the GDRE. They relate to French and German legal reforms in the field of the law of obligations, company law and corporate insolvency law. More widely, all the topics dealt with in this book can be seen in the context of the changing

1 O. DESHAYES (ed.), Le droit commun européen de la vente, examen de la proposition de

règlement du 11 octobre 2011 (avec une table de concordance des textes), coll. « Trans Europe Expert », vol. 6, Paris, Société de législation comparée, 2012.

2 B. FAUVARQUE-COSSON and M. BEHAR-TOUCHAIS, Mise en œuvre des instruments

optionnels européens en droit privé, coll. « Trans Europe Expert », vol. 5, Paris, Société de législation comparée, 2012.

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W. DORALT & O. DESHAYES : FOREWORD 9

landscape of law in the EU and against the background of comparative law and regulatory competition. National jurisdictions have been and are reacting to the changing normative environment in Europe and, as such, national reforms are often also a reaction to international trends or developments. The concepts advanced in these reforms are frequently motivated by a desire to provide a blue print or model for European reforms, be it in the context of the law of obligations, in company law or corporate insolvency law. This book by no means intends to give a broad overview of the topics mentioned above, let alone a comprehensive one, but rather wants to give an impression of certain aspects of reforms in Germany and France in a comparative perspective. It therefore hopes to contribute to a better mutual understanding.

The contributions have been authored partially in English, partially in French. We hope that our readers will not find this to be too much of an obstacle. The choice of language for each contribution and the lack of uniformity may seem unusual at first sight, but it is not arbitrary: Some of the French contributions are written in English in order to allow for easier access and a wider readership among foreign readers, this occurring where seen as desirable by the editors. On the other hand, some of the contributions written by German authors are here published in French, because the insights presented in these papers seemed particularly interesting for readers in France. In this context, the editors are very grateful to Chloé Lignier for her linguistic support and for the translation of contributions into French, as they are to Michael Friedman for his support in brushing up the papers written in English.

We hope this book will stand as a modest but useful contribution for readers interested in French and German law in a comparative perspective.

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