Overview
- The only book covering all aspects of the European foundation law
- Written by leading experts: Chiara Prele, Tymen Van der Ploeg, Dominique Jakob, Birgit Weitemeyer
- Covers the most recent developments in foundation law
- Offers a unique Pan-European overview
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 39)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Beneficiaries and Their Rights
- Characteristics of the Foundation
- Charitable Foundations
- Community Foundations
- Foundation Law and Civil Codes
- Foundation Law and Common Law Jurisdictions
- Foundation Law and Tax Law
- Foundation Law and Taxation
- Foundations Ruled by the Civil Code
- Foundations' Needs
- Governance and Activities of the Foundation
- Law Governing Foundations
- Law of Public and Private Foundations
- Legal Form Personality
- Mechanisms and Dynamics of Supervision by Beneficiaries
- Principles of the Foundation Governance
- Private Purpose Foundations
- Privatization and Foundation Law
- Regulation of Charitable Foundation Activity
- Regulation of Foundations
- Regulatory Concerns for Foundations
- Trust Foundation as a New Organization Form
About this book
This book deals with foundation law in various European countries. It sums up contributions from the most outstanding experts in foundation law in fourteen countries. These are either civil law or common law, and their socio-economical situation is considerably different.
Despite the outstanding differences in each country, foundations have been growing in number and importance all over Europe in the last decades. Political, economical and social changes occurred in various European countries increased foundations' role. The need to focus on foundations' laws and regulations arose in many States for different reasons.
The contributions in this book focus in particular on the recent development of foundation law, on the evolution foundations have undergone in recent years and on trends in law.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developments in Foundation Law in Europe
Editors: Chiara Prele
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9069-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9068-0Published: 01 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7861-9Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9069-7Published: 17 July 2014
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 314
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Business Taxation/Tax Law, Public International Law