Employee participation under the cross-border mergers directive

Brief commentary considering interpretative difficulties raised by the European Union Directive 2005/56/EC of October 26, 2005 on Cross-Border Mergers of limited liability companies. Article by Dr Frank Wooldridge published in Amicus Curiae – Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by SALS at the IALS (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

The German private company limited partnership

Article published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

The German Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (limited partnership with shares)

An overview of the German law governing limited partnership companies with shares (Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien). The author outlines: the historical background, applicable rules of law, formation, structure, organisation and financial provisions of a KGaA

The rights of minority shareholders in French and German public companies

Article by Dr Frank Wooldridge looking at the salient features involved in the rights of minority shareholders in French and German public companies. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

A Survey of Adult Membership Training Experiences for Evangelical United Brethren

Hardly a week passes in most communities surrounding a major metropolitan center that a new family does not move into town. No longer does the cleric or lay worker need to look to distant fields for those who are not being challenged by the Gospel. As they came into the new community, they brought in addition to their household goods, their former church attitudes. They were Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Nazarenes, Penticostals, and Presbyterians. When they moved into the community served by the Evangelical United Brethren Church, they became the responsibility of the local church in that community. Can people from such varied backgrounds be brought into a local church and work together harmoniously? What can be done to help these people from such differing religious environments become part of and contribute to a smoothly operating church? Some of them have served a probationary period in their former church before they were accepted for membership. Others were accepted for membership on the basis of their conversion . In addition there are some who had completed differing length courses of study in all the phases of the beliefs and practices of their church

The German public company limited partnership (Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien - KGaA)

Legal scholar Dr Frank Wooldridge outlines the origins, aims and application of the German public limited partnership law or Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien - KGaA

Minority rights in German public companies

With reference to the significant legal rules contained in articles of the Aktiengesetz (AktG), Dr Frank Wooldridge summarises the complex German rules governing minority protection in German corporation law, describing how they appear to have a useful effect and may well influence legislation in other states

Effect of Herbicides on Crabgrass (Digitaria Sanguinalis (L.) Scop.) And Various Turf Grass Species

Agronomy (Field Crops