Elena Dubovitskaya What Can We Learn From the Fully Virtual Shareholder Meetings That Have Taken Place During the Corona Pandemic?
Elena Dubovitskayais a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. She is also head of the centre of expertise on Russia and other post Soviet states. Having completed her doctorate at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2003, Dubovitskaya has combined her research with periods as a legal professional in both Germany and Russia. Her main research interests include civil law, company and commercial law and Russian law
Area of Research
International Private Law
since 2015
Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
2009-2015
University Research Assistant
University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln)
2009-2011
Attorney
Loschelder Rechtsanwälte, Cologne (Germany)
1997-1999
Public Officer
Ministry of Justice, Moscow (Russia)
1995-1997
Public Officer
Antitrust Authority, Moscow (Russia)
2019
Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification (Habilitation)
Bucerius Law School
Venia legendi for Civil Law, Commercial and Company Law, Capital Market Law, Comparative Law and Eastern European Law
2003-2007
Law Studies
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
1998-2003
Doctoral Studies
Moscow State Lomonosov-University, Moscow (Russia)
1993-1995
Law Studies
Moscow State Lomonosov-University, Moscow (Russia)
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Max Planck Society
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Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg is dedicated to performing foundational research and promoting the transfer of knowledge in the fields of comparative and international private law and business law. By analysing similarities and differences in the legal regimes of Europe as well as other parts of the world, the Institute studies the interaction of private rule-making, national legal systems, supranational law and interstate treaties. The research performed at the Institute also serves to lay the groundwork for an international understanding of law and to help develop rules and legal instruments with which the application of national law can be better coordinated in cross-border matters. This is an academic mission of considerable significance particularly within a united Europe and against the background of increasing globalisation and a corresponding internationalisation of law. (Source)
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The Corona pandemic made it impossible to hold general shareholder meetings in the traditional manner. In this video, ELENA DUBOVITSKAYA explores how German corporate law responded to this dilemma through what she refers to as The Covid Act. Out of necessity, the act bypassed the shareholder’s heretofore irrevocable right to be physically present at the general meeting. Dubovitskaya examines the extent to which the Covid Act can act as a blueprint for forthcoming legislation on the manner in which fully virtual general shareholder meetings can be organized.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10861
The COVID-19 Company Law Act in Germany: New Regulations in Company Law
- Elena Dubovitskaya
- La Ley mercantil
- Published in 2020
