Bijdrage van Arie Van Hoe

Een thema dat met enige regelmaat opduikt in Belgische rechtspraak. "Under current foreign sovereign immunity doctrine, sovereigns are not immune from suit when they engage in “private” acts, such as entering into contracts—in other words, when they act as participants in, rather than regulators of, the market. This Note argues that the distinction between a state’s public and private acts is far less stable and clear-cut than it first appears. Many acts in which sovereigns engage are of a mixed nature. Choosing to see an act or transaction as essentially private or public often obscures other features that complicate that characterization."

Can it be done, a universal legal taxonomy? "Despite law’s focus on precise definitions, the sector lacks a universal taxonomy — a scheme of classification of legal terms — even within the same jurisdiction." "AI could automate much of the creation of a new legal data standard. But, until the legal sector has an extensive — and extensively adopted — legal taxonomy in place, all the other potential benefits of generative AI for lawyers may be lost in translation."

Kan verwacht worden van het vennootschapsrecht dat het de wereld redt? Alvast niet van het (vennootschaps)recht van Delaware, (waarschijnlijk) het belangrijkste vennootschapsrecht ter wereld. (p. 90-91) "Delaware law mandates that its entities and the fiduciaries who manage them comply with positive law. That legal requirement promotes legal compliance in its own right, while also providing a mechanism for holding fiduciaries accountable when they knowingly cause an entity to violate positive law. To ask more from state-based corporate law is to pick the wrong took ["tool"] for the job." Verplichte lectuur voor elke (eeuwige) student in en van het vennootschapsrecht. https://lnkd.in/g_5JQrh4

Rechtspraak in de VS (althans de rechtspraak die ik ken) is net iets anders van stijl dan Belgische rechtspraak. Als voorbeeld de wijze waarop wordt omgegaan met gezaghebbende rechtsleer (misschien nu wat minder gezaghebbend). "Easterbrook and Fischel do not cite any law to support those premises. They proffer them as assertions of fact that are really assumptions. Based on those assumptions, they critique corporate law rules that fail to fulfill their expectations." Of deze inleiding. "The standard Delaware formulation thus contemplates a single-firm model (or firm-specific model) in which directors of a corporation owe duties to the stockholders as investors in that corporation. That point is so basic that no Delaware decisions have felt the need to say it. Fish don’t talk about water."  https://lnkd.in/g_5JQrh4