Département de droit économique et social

The Centre Jean Renauld was created in 1978 as part of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). It is aimed at scientific research on different subjects concerning companies. It is specialised in a critical assessment of Belgian and European corporate and finance law and analyses the purpose, the structures and the financing models of companies.

Its members are professors, PhD candidates and assistant-professors as well as law practicioners.

It holds seminars and workshops in the fields of corporate law, bankruptcy law, competition law and finance law.

Recent seminars were related to:
- recent developments in corporate law;
- new rules concerning prospectus and market abuse regimes;
- corporate directors liability

Future seminars will discuss the following subjects:
- new regime of audit
- new regime of take-over bids

Its main areas of research are currently as follows:

- modernising European corporate law;
- corporate governance;
- shareholders democracy;
- corporate rights of stakeholders;
- disclosure requirements in corporate and finance law;
- corporate restructuring;
- liability of company directors;
- corporate social responsibility;
- sanctions in WTO law.