Bibliographie sélective OHADA

In publicly held companies where the shareholdership is differentiated from the control and the management of the company, the dispersed shareholding structure prevents the active involvement of the shareholders in the company management while the directors have the opportunity to act in their personal interests. The aforementioned conflict of interest between the shareholders and the directors in the management of the publicly held companies which has been identified as "Principle-Agent Problem" in economic literature has had substantial effect in modern company law. Accordingly, considerable work in the company law has been dedicated to the legal strategies developed to decrease the cost of monitoring directors for shareholders. One of the main corporate governance strategies that is developed to deal with the "Principle-Agent Problem" focuses on increasing the number and the effectiveness of the directors who are not involved in the managing activities of the company. The main principle of this legal strategy is the designing the structure of the board of directors on the basis of team spirit and mutual accountability. In that sense, non-management directors conduct their duties as directors without having management tasks in the company. As these directors work on a part time basis they are not fully depended to the company and in principle they receive symbolic amounts of remuneration. Under this incentive strategy it is accepted that the esteem and reputation that the non-management directors preserve in eye of the public are the main incentives that motivate them to monitor the managing directors. The corporate governance principles are designed as alternative to the rule based regulation approach in company law. The non-management directorship which is introduced as a corporate governance concept for solving the problem of conflict of interest between the shareholders and the directors is the focus area of this thesis. The thesis consists of five parts. In the first part of this study, the concept of corporate governance which is the source of non-management director concept and the conflict of intererest problem between the shareholders and the directors regarding the management of the publicly held companies have been introduced. In this regard, "Centralised Management" and "Principle-Agent Problem" are explained. Finally, based on the "Principle-Agent Problem" the legal theories that are developed to increase the effectiveness of the board of directors, the categorisation of those strategies that has been introduced and place of the non-management directors among those strategies are clarified. In the second part the emergence of the concept of non-management directorship system and the development of the mechanisms for increasing director independence are described and different forms of non-management directors in one-tier board structures are analysed. On this subject the legal designing of the concepts of independent and disinterested directorship which is developed in American law and non-executive directorship which is introduced in the British Law is analysed. In the third part, the concept of the supervisory directorship which corresponds to the non-management directorship in two-tier board system is examined. Forth part of the thesis focuses on the comparison of one-tier and two-tier board structures in application of the non-management directorship concept. Within this scope, it has been analysed whether there is a convergence in the functions of non-management directors in terms of supervision, strategy development and networking in the two types of board systems. Related to this analysis, the effectiveness of the non-management directors in one-tier and two-tier board systems and the role of the institutional investor regarding this effectiveness is evaluated. In recent years, depending on the inclination of convergence in different law systems, there has been an alignment effort in the European Union to have a single set of rules regarding the non-management directors. In this respect as a final focus point, in this part, the regulations of the European Union regarding the non-management directors are examined. The fifth part is dedicated to legal design of the independent directorship which is regulated under the non-management directorship concept in the Turkish law. Turkish Commercial Code is the general code that regulates all joint stock corporations including the publicly held ones. Therefore in order to explain the effects of Anglo-American approach on the administrative organ, the approach of the Turkish Commercial Code regarding the structure and functioning of the board of directors which are based on corporate governance principles are explained. Following that general introduction, the system change regarding the corporate governance principles in Turkey which consists of application of mandatory rules rather than "Comply or Explain" approach that is applicable to independent directors is explained. After that the independence criteria which are set for the independent directors under the capital market regulations for publicly held joint stock corporations and the role of independent directors in decision making mechanism are analysed. Finally, the structure and functioning of the board committees are evaluated by examining the functions of the independent board members.

Vergi hukuku kurum ve işlemlerini iktisadi hayatın işleyişi üzerine kurmuştur. İktisadi hayat ise ticaret hukuku, borçlar hukuku ve medeni hukuk gibi özel hukuk kurallarının denetimindedir. Bu durumun doğal bir sonucu olarak da vergi hukuku vergiyi doğuran olayları tanımlarken özel hukukun kurum ve kavramlarından faydalanmaktadır. Hukuki işlemlerin en önemlilerinden biri olan özel hukuk sözleşmeleri de vergilendirmenin sebep unsurunu oluşturabilmektedir. Çalışmamızda vergi hukukunun özel hukuk ile ilişkisi açıklanmış ve özel hukuk sözleşmelerinin vergi hukukundaki geçerlilikleri literatürdeki farklı görüşlere, yargı kararlarına ve İdare'nin görüşlerine yer verilerek araştırılmıştır. Özel hukuk sözleşmeleri ile ortaya çıkartılabilen sayısız durumda her iki hukuk dalının aynı olaya farklı bakış açıları mükellefler ve İdare'nin sıklıkla karşı karşıya gelmesine sebep olmaktadır. Vergiyi doğuran olayın sözleşmelerle ortaya çıkması halinde adil bir vergilendirme bu sözleşmelerin hukuki nitelendirmelerinin doğru yapılmasıyla mümkün olmaktadır. Ayrıca vergi hukukunun özel hukuk kavramlarına atfettiği anlamlar verginin yasallığı ilkesi çerçevesinde kanunlarla şekillenmelidir. Anahtar Kelimeler : Vergi Hukuku, Özel Hukuk Sözleşmeleri, Verginin Yasallığı. Tax law establishes its institutes and procedures as based on the operation of the financial life. Financial life is under the control of the rules of the private laws such as trade law, obligations law and civil law. As a natural consequence of this, when tax law defines the events that give rise to tax, it also benefits from the institutions and concepts of the private law. Private law contracts, which are among the most important legal procedures, may also result in taxation. In our study, the relation of the tax law with private law is explained and the validity of the private law contracts in tax law is examined by inclusion of different opinions in the literature, judicial decisions and the opinions of the Administration. The different points of views of both branches of law about the same event in countless number of cases, which occur as a result of private law contracts, cause the tax payers come up against the Administration frequently. If the event giving rise to taxation is a result of the contracts, then a fair taxation is possible through correct legal identification of such contracts. Moreover, the meanings referred by the tax law to the private law concepts should be shaped by the laws within the frame of the principle of the legality of tax Keywords : Tax Law, Private Law Contracts, Legality of Tax

This thesis investigates three important issues on bank financial reporting quality: 1) the impact of banks’ retail versus wholesale funding structure on their earnings quality, 2) the implications of economic and monetary policy uncertainty for banks’ earnings opacity, and 3) the relationship between banks’ bad time history and accounting conservatism. In the first essay, we examine the implications of banks’ funding strategies for banks’ earnings quality. We find that banks’ greater reliance on retail deposits over wholesale funds is negatively and significantly associated with the magnitude of earnings management through discretionary loan loss provisions, the likelihood of meeting-or-beating earnings benchmark, and the extent of income smoothing through loan loss provisions. This finding is consistent with the arguments that retail deposits are relatively more stable and information-insensitive, represent a more conservative business model, and attract more intensive monitoring from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) than wholesale funds, thereby improving banks’ financial reporting quality. In the second essay, we investigate whether economic and monetary policy uncertainties affect banks’ earnings opacity. When economic and monetary policies are relatively uncertain, it is easier for bank managers to distort financial information, as unpredictable policy changes make assessing the existence and impact of hidden “adverse news” more difficult for investors and creditors. Policy uncertainty also increases the fluctuation in banks’ earnings and cash flows, providing additional incentives for bank managers to engage in earnings management. Our results show that uncertainty in economic and monetary policy is associated with greater magnitude of discretionary loan loss provisions, higher likelihood of just meeting-or-beating the prior year’s earnings, and lower levels of accounting conservatism, suggesting that economic and monetary policy uncertainties lead to higher banks’ earnings opacity. In the third essay, we examine the impact of banks’ bad times on the conservatism of accounting policy. Specifically, we investigate two types of bad times: banks’ own past experiences of undercapitalization and their experiences of witnessing the failures of other banks in state-wide and county-wide crises. We find that both types of banks’ bad times are positively related to timelier recognition of earnings decreases versus earnings increases in accounting income. We also find that following exposure to bad times, banks increase their allowance for loan losses. Collectively, our results suggest that bank-specific bad times and macro-level banking crises lead to greater bank accounting conservatism. These findings support the arguments that banks exposed to past crises overweight their bad time history, and become more cautious and pessimistic about their future earnings performance and loan quality.

For the past twenty years, international commercial arbitration scholarship has mainly focusedon the private dimension of international arbitration. Part of a greater movement toward the privatization of justice and law, this understanding of the discipline has obscured arbitrators'adjudicative role. By reflecting on different adjudicative models and by analyzing the form andcontent of arbitral decisions, new light can be shed on our understanding of international commercial arbitration.

A inserção internacional de Moçambique é um processo que ocorreu em fases, tendo se iniciado com os esforços empreendidos na década de 1960 pelo Dr. Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, Primeiro Presidente da Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO). Visando criar o isolamento internacional do regime colonial Português e obter o apoio necessário para a causa da independência de Moçambique, Mondlane estabeleceu contatos com governos de vários Estados do mundo incluindo países ocidentais, países progressistas africanos e países socialistas, projetando, deste modo, a imagem de Moçambique no mundo. Iniciada com as decisões tomadas no Segundo Congresso da FRELIMO realizado em 1968, a política externa de Moçambique tinha em vista “criar mais amigos e poucos inimigos”, num contexto de bipolaridade ideológica que caracterizava a guerra-fria. O novo contexto internacional emergente no período após o fim da guerra-fria viria a originar uma redefiniçao desta política que passou a ser definida como de “criar mais amigos e mais parceiras”. A nível da região da África Austral a FRELIMO considerou sempre que a independência de Moçambique só seria completa com a libertação de todos os países da região que ainda se encontravam sob a dominação de regimes coloniais e minoritários tendo dado o seu apoio incondicional à luta de libertação do Zimbábue, África do Sul e Namíbia, para além do seu grande empenho no processo de cooperação e integração regional. É neste contexto que se pode enquadrar esta tese cujo tema é “a política externa de Moçambique e sua inserção na região da África Austral” a qual procura, através de uma vasta revisão bibliográfica, analisar os contornos que estiveram à volta da afirmação de Moçambique como Estado reconhecido no concerto das nações tanto a nível regional como internacional. The international insertion of Mozambique is a process that took place in phases, starting with the efforts made in the 1960s by Dr. Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, First President of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO). In order to create the international isolation of the Portuguese colonial regime and obtain the necessary support for the cause of Mozambique's independence, Mondlane established contacts with governments in several states of the world including Western countries, progressive African countries and socialist countries, thus projecting the image of Mozambique in the world. Initiated by the decisions taken at the Second FRELIMO’s Congress held in 1968, Mozambique's foreign policy aimed to "create more friends and few enemies" in a context of ideological bipolarity that characterized the Cold War. The new emerging international context in the period after the end of the Cold War would lead to a redefinition of this policy, which was defined as "creating more friends and more partners". At the level of the southern African region FRELIMO always considered that Mozambique's independence would only be complete with the liberation of all the countries of the region that were still under the domination of colonial and minority regimes and gave its unconditional support to the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, in addition to its strong commitment to regional cooperation and integration. It is in this context that one can frame this thesis whose theme is "the foreign policy of Mozambique and its insertion in the region of Southern Africa" which seeks, through a vast bibliographical review, to analyze the contours that were around the affirmation of Mozambique as State recognized in the concert of nations at both regional and international levels

Şirketler Topluluğunda Hakimiyetin Hukuka Aykırı Kullanılması başlıklı çalışmamız ile 6102 sayılı TTK ile ilk defa pozitif düzenlemeye kavuşturulan şirketler topluluğu sorumluluk hukuku incelenmiştir. Kanun koyucu TTK m. 202 hükmü ile alelade hakimiyet bakımından, TTK m. 203 vd. hükümleri ile de tam hakimiyet bakımından hakimiyetin hukuka aykırı kullanılması ve sonuçlarını düzenlemiştir. TTK'nın şirketler topluluğuna ilişkin hükümlerinin önemli bir kısmı AktG sistematiği örnek alınarak oluşturulmuştur. Bu doğrultuda şirketler topluluğuna ilişkin TTK sistematiği incelenirken Alman doktrinine de sıklıkla başvurulmuştur. Çalışmamız kapsamında TTK m. 195 hükmünde düzenlenen kontrol araçları ve hakimiyet kavramı; yönlendirme, talimat ve yapısal karar alınması yoluyla hakimiyetin hukuka aykırı kullanılması; kayıp-denkleştirme sistemi; hakimiyetin hukuka aykırı kullanılmasından kaynaklanan sorumluluk, unsurları ve öngörülen talep hakları ayrıntılı olarak incelenmiştir. The new Turkish Commercial Code (TCC) Nr. 6102 has introduced the notion of "groups of companies" to the Turkish Commercial Law; hereby the "groups of companies" concept was spelled out for the first time in Turkish law. This thesis examines corporate group law in Turkey and demonstrates the intragroup responsibility regime in comparison with the German system. TCC Art. 202 foresee the consequences of unlawful exercise of control in basic dominance/control. Whereas TCC Art. 203-206 regulate the responsibility regime regarding the unlawful exercise of control with regards to full-control. Turkish corporate group law has been enacted under the big influence of the German AktG-System. Although our thesis focuses on the analysis regarding corporate group provisions of the TCC, the research on German law also covers a significant part of our thesis. This thesis examines in detail the control instruments stipulated in TCC Art. 195, the concept of control, the unlawful exercise of control by means of TCC Art. 202/1, TCC Art. 203 and TCC Art. 202/2, the concept of disadvantage and adjustment, the different liability regimes with regards to the category of the unlawful exercise of control and the rights of action.

The primary contribution of the thesis is a theory enhancing the legal understanding of the phenomenon of virtual property, encompassing presentation of data and a new conceptual framework to interpret it. The author argues that the normative debates concerning the phenomenon have underestimated the importance of understanding and conceptualizing it first, and aims at amending this gap. The ‘virtual property phenomenon’ refers to the users of internet platforms and online computer games ‘possessing’ virtual items – digital objects that exist within these services – and getting into economic and social relations concerning these items, with other users, service providers and third parties. These relations are regulated by different types of service-specific rules – contractual and the ‘code’ – created unilaterally by the service providers, who additionally retain the ability to interpret and enforce them, using ‘digital force’, i.e. by modifying and deleting virtual items, and blocking users’ accounts. The primary challenge stems not from the fact that the phenomenon is not regulated, but from the fact that lawyers lack words – terms and concepts – to even conduct a meaningful debate about it, or how to respond to it. The thesis consists of six chapters. Firstly, the author describes the phenomenon and analyzes the theoretical and regulatory legal challenges posed by its emergence. Secondly, he critically assesses the state of the art. Thirdly, a methodology to address these challenges is proposed, which can also be used in other research projects concerning law and technology. Fourthly, the author explains how the process of digitalization has fundamentally challenged the assumptions that private law held about the structure of reality, and proposes new doctrinal tools to conceptualize it. Fifthly, the author presents a legally useful concept of virtual items, and argues that granting users property rights over them might not be the optimal means of realizing the property goals. Finally, the author proposes a normative solution, a correction of private law, responding to the new type of inequality in relations, namely a user protection law.

This dissertation examines the phenomenon of book digitization and the legal challenges for the creation of digital libraries. It explores whether the current copyright framework supports libraries in the digital era as they strive to remain the institutional guardians of our literary treasures. The thesis hypothesis is that the current framework is unsuccessful or inadequate in supporting libraries. To test this hypothesis and identify the legal inefficacies the dissertation examines context, i.e. the history and rationale for applying copyright rules to books and libraries, the copyright rules as applied to libraries before and after digitization was possible, various digitization projects and the practical challenges that digitization brought about, and, the relevant litigation which has started on both sides of the Atlantic covering over a decade now. Furthermore, the thesis explores normative directions of copyright rules, including their exceptions, applicable to libraries in the digital era. It ultimately proposes that among various players claiming this role, libraries, given their institutional functions and capabilities, should be attributed rights to digitization and a favorable legal framework for providing access to digital material.

The thesis entitled "Consumer arbitration in South Africa and its effect on the consumer‘s right to redress and enforcement" notes with concern the outdated and inadequate nature of the Arbitration law currently applied in South Africa. The fact that the Act was enacted in 1965 and has never been amended highlights the desperate need to review the prevailing arbitration law with a view to aligning it with the current needs of the business world. The thesis addresses the concern that consumers are not adequately protected by the current arbitration law and thus substantially develops the discourse on the topic of arbitration in situations of unequal bargaining power. It raises three primary research questions in this context. The first question reads thus, if private arbitration is properly conducted should it still provide the parties with the envisaged benefits? Secondly, is private arbitration constitutional, especially as it impacts upon consumers‘ contracting with large corporations? Thirdly, is the private arbitration process as it is currently applied, constitutional as far as it denies parties an appeal on merits against an award that is clearly wrong? The thesis attempts to answer these questions and offer recommendations for the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) within the specific context of commercial arbitration. In addressing these research questions, the thesis incorporates a brief overview followed by a detailed discussion of the Arbitration law framework in South Africa and abroad. The discussion of arbitration abroad is done in order to identify best practices, which could be adapted to suit the South African environment. International Arbitration law receives attention and a few observations regarding how selected foreign jurisdictions treat arbitration. Finally, the thesis explores the possibility of establishing an independent institution that will be fully equipped to handle arbitration proceedings from inception to completion.

This thesis examines the jurisprudence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Panels and Appellate Body (AB) and investment tribunals on non-discrimination clauses contained in the WTO agreements and investment agreements respectively. The thesis puts forward an alternative conceptual perspective through which the interpretation of non-discrimination provisions in international economic law could be analysed. It is argued that nondiscrimination obligations (as every legal rule to a greater or lesser extent) are inherently indeterminate. This is a fortiori the case in regard to non-discrimination provisions due to their link to the concept of equality. The concept of equality is open-ended and value-laden: its content depends on the prioritisation of different values. Thus, equality in the economic sphere can accommodate different conceptions which reflect different ideological approaches in relation to regulation, economic development and the proper role of the State in the economy. International courts and tribunals enjoy broad discretion in selecting which conception of equality to adopt when interpreting non-discrimination clauses. This indeterminacy is a positive characteristic of international economic regimes. Both the WTO and the investment arbitration regime are equipped with institutional characteristics which enable the contestation of different ideological approaches and promote pluralism. In the WTO context, this role is fulfilled by the institutional structure of the organization which facilitates the dialogue between the WTO members and the WTO Dispute Settlement System. In the realm of international investment arbitration, the mechanism of party-appointed arbitrators, despite its shortcomings which can be addressed, ensures value pluralism.

The focus of this study is the protection of creditors’ rights in South Africa’s statutory business rescue regime provided for in Chapter 6 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008. In this analysis, three issues in particular are addressed in depth. The first is the creditors` power to initiate the business rescue process. The second is the position of creditors between the commencement and the termination of the business rescue process. The third issue is to suggest (on the basis of experience drawn from reported case law and academic criticism of the current business rescue statutory provisions) an improved model that will more effectively safeguard creditors’ rights in South Africa’s business rescue regime. In exploring these issues, I give a critical review of pertinent literature. With respect to the first issue, I conclude that the legislative provisions granting creditors the right to seek a court order initiating the business rescue process are open to criticism. By contrast, a resolution of the board of directors for the commencement of business rescue is a simpler route. With regard to the second issue I conclude that the company’s creditors have considerable influence in the business rescue process. Overall, the current statutory business rescue regime is intended to give a voice to all major stakeholders in the company’s continued solvent existence. In the event of certain irresoluble disputes in the course of that process, the judiciary has the final say. A substantial number of judicial decisions have provided interpretations of the statutory provisions, and the trend has been to try to restore financial ailing companies to solvency and viability where there is a reasonable prospect for success in this regard. In my conclusion, I propose a legislative model that seeks to strike an optimum balance between the competing and sometimes conflicting interests of the various interested parties and I suggest reforms directed at enhancing the protection of creditors’ rights. This thesis takes account of South African legislation and legislative amendments as at 31 December 2016 and of decisions of the South African courts up to and including those handed down during April 2017 and reported in the saflii on-line law reports. Since a substantial part of this thesis was written from outside South Africa, the author relied heavily on the safllii data base of judgments of the South African courts, rather than on hard copy law reports which take time to reach their destination by post.

Proteção internacional do consumidor turista. Primeiramente, são apresentados elementos para demonstrar a relevância e a contextualização do tema. Em seguida, são apresentados alguns conceitos importantes para delimitar o tema, seguido de uma descrição sobre o comportamento e as expectativas do consumidor turista. Na segunda parte, são apresentados os diferentes meios de tutela internacional do consumidor turista, começando pelas organizações internacional, passando pelos blocos regionais e concluindo com os desenvolvimentos nacionais. Na terceira parte, trata-se da governança global em prol da proteção internacional do consumidor. Começase pela governança local e a cooperação jurídica internacional; em seguida, é trabalhada a governança regional e a cooperação jurídica internacional, concluindo com a governança global e a cooperação jurídica internacional. Como conclusão, defende-se a inserção de proposta da regra mais favorável ao consumidor em casos internacionais na atualização do Código de Defesa do Consumidor; no âmbito regional, há uma demanda por aprimoramento e estruturação da tutela do consumidor turista internacional; Por fim, conclui-se da necessidade de uma proteção do consumidor turista internacional de forma mais difusa, por meio de uma convenção da Conferência de Haia sobre o Direito Internacional Privado - HCCH.

Healthcare markets have started being created in Europe. Indeed, some European countries, such as the UK and the Netherlands, have started adopting the choice and competition model for healthcare delivery. Taking as a starting point that as health systems in Europe move towards market driven healthcare delivery, the application of competition law in these systems will increase, the goal of this doctoral thesis is (a) to identify some of the competition problems that may be raised in light of the reality that especially in hospital and medical markets the pursuit of competition and the pursuit of essential dimensions of healthcare quality may inevitably clash (b) to demonstrate that competition authorities would be unable to address some of these competition problems if they did not pose and address a fundamental question first: how should we define and assess quality in healthcare? How should we take healthcare quality into account in the context of a competition analysis? In delving into these questions, this doctoral thesis explores how the notion of healthcare quality is defined from antitrust, health policy and medicine perspectives and identifies three different models under which competition authorities may actually assess how a specific anticompetitive agreement or hospital merger may impact on healthcare quality. These are: (a) the US market approach under which competition authorities may define quality in healthcare strictly as choice, variety, competition and innovation (b) the European approach under which competition authorities may extend the notion of consumer welfare in healthcare so that it encompasses not only the notions of efficiency, choice and innovation, but also the wider objectives and values European health systems in fact pursue (c) the UK model under which competition authorities may cooperate with health authorities when they assess the impact of a specific transaction on healthcare quality. The thesis identifies the main merits and shortcomings of these models and emphasizes that what is crucial for the adoption of a holistic approach to healthcare quality is not only the model under which healthcare quality is actually integrated into a competition analysis but also competition authorities’ commitment to protect all dimensions of this notion.

Pay sahipleri genel kurula katılma maliyetlerinin fazla gelmesi, buna ayıracak zamanlarının olmaması veya sağlık sorunları gibi sebeplerle dolayı genel kurula katılmak istemeyebilir. Bunun sonucunda pay sahiplerinin şirketin işleyişine ve genel kurul kararlarına etki etme olasılıkları zayıfladığından; genel kurullarda, etkin ve iyi organize olmuş pay sahipleri gerçekte çoğunluk olmasalar da istedikleri kararların alınmasını sağlayabilmektedirler. Bu durum genel kurulda güç boşluğu sorununun doğmasına neden olmaktadır. Bu kapsamda anonim şirket genel kurulunda pay sahibinin temsilinin bu konudaki sorunları giderme de önemli bir rolü vardır. İşte tezimizin konusu, TTK ve SerPK çerçevesinde anonim şirket genel kurulunda pay sahibinin temsilidir. Bilindiği üzere 6102 sayılı TTK bir bütün olarak 01.07.2012 tarihinde yürürlüğe girmiş ve böylece elli yılı aşkın bir süredir uygulanan 6762 sayılı eTTK'yı yürürlükten kaldırmıştır. Yine 6362 sayılı SerPK 30.12.2012 tarihinde yürürlüğe girerek 2499 sayılı SerPK'yı yürürlükten kaldırmıştır. Bu yeni kanunlarda tez konumuzla ilgili olarak bir dizi değişiklikler yapılmış ve yenilikler getirilmiştir. Tez konusunun seçilmesindeki amaç, pay sahibinin temsiliyle ilgili olarak TTK ve SerPK mevzuatlarında getirilen yeni düzenlemelerin Yargıtay kararları, öğretideki görüşler ve mukayeseli hukuk ışığında değerlendirerek olası problemler karşısında çözüm önerileri getirip Türk Hukukuna katkı sağlamaktır. Bu tez çalışmasının ortaya konulması sırasında özellikle konuya kaynaklık eden İsviçre Hukuku ve literatüründen faydalanılmıştır. Konu, Türk Hukuku bakımından incelenirken İsviçre Hukukundan farklılıkları ve benzerlikleri ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Bunun dışında konumuzla ilgili olarak Alman, Amerikan, İngiliz ve Avrupa Birliği Hukuklarından da yararlanılmıştır. Yapılan değerlendirmeler sonucunda birçok sonuçlar elde edilmiştir. Ancak özellikle şunu belirtmeliyiz ki; halka açık anonim ortaklıklar düşünülerek getirilen TTK m. 428'de ifade edilen toplu temsilciler ile ilgili düzenleme, SerPK m. 30/4'te ve SPK II-30.1 sayılı Tebliğ m. 5/3 düzenlemeleri sebebiyle uygulanmayacaktır. Üstelik bu hükümler nedeniyle Türk Ticaret Kanunu ile Bazı Kanun ve Kanun Hükmünde Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Kanun Tasarısı Taslağı m. 12'de TTK m. 428, 430 ve 431 hükümlerinin yürürlükten kaldırılması öngörülmektedir. Getiriliş amacı geniş kitlelerin temsilini sağlamak olan bu hükümleri yürürlükten kaldırmak yerine, SerpK'nın ilgili hükümleri ile gerekli koordinasyon sağlanarak, bunların tüm ortaklıklar yönünden uygulanmasının yolu açılmalıdır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Anonim Ortaklık; Genel Kurul; Pay Sahibi; Temsil. Shareholders may refrain to join general assembly meetings due to the reasons like participation costs, lack of time and health issues. Since the possibility of the shareholders to have an impact on the functioning of the company and its general assembly gets weakened as a result of non-attendance, active and well-organized shareholder groups-despite the fact that they do not constitute the majority of the shareholders- may achieve their desired general assembly decisions. This particular issue causes an occurrence of a power gap in general assemblies. In this context, representation of the shareholders in the general assembly of the joint stock companies plays a role of utmost importance in eradicating such problems. Hence, the topic of my thesis is the representation of the shareholders in the general assembly of the joint stock companies within the legal framework of Turkish Commercial Code and Turkish Capital Market Code. As known, Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 came into force in 01.07.2012, repealing former Turkish Commercial Code No. 6762 which was in force for more than fifty years. Also, Turkish Capital Market Code no. 6362 came into force in 30.12.2012, repealing former Turkish Capital Market Code no. 2449. There has been a series of amendments performed on those two codes concerning my thesis topic. My main goal on choosing this topic is to contribute to Turkish Law through assessing those amendments in the light of supreme court orders, scientific opinions and comparative law and to provide solutions to the existing and prospective problems. In preparation of this work, apart from Turkish Law, Swiss Law is highly referenced as it constitutes the main source of the issue. Therefore, while assessing the point, similarities and differences between Turkish and Swiss law is asserted. Besides, German Law, European Union Law, American Law and English law are also referenced for the sake of the proper assessment of the topic. As a consequence of made analyzes, a lot of conclusions are drawn. However, it is to be pointed out particularly that the regulations in Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 article 428 which were provided considering open joint stock companies will not be applied because of Turkish Capital Market Code No. 2449 article 30/4 and the regulation of Turkish Capital Market Board no. II-30.1 article 5/3. Moreover, because of those provisions, repealing of the articles no. 428,430,431 of Turkish Commercial Code no. 6102 is at stake. Instead of repealing those provisions of Turkish Commercial Code no. 6102 -which aim at representation in a broader sense- establishing the coordination between those provision and related Turkish Capital Market Code provisions and enabling the application of those provisions on all sort of companies must be done. Keywords: Joint Stock Company, General Assembly, Shareholder, Representation

The picture presented and often referred to in EU internal market law and legal scholarship is clear. Within the internal market private actors are the recipients of rights and public authorities are constrained in their (regulatory) powers. The notion of this new individualism is bound up with capacities, powers, and resources that empower private actors to engage in the internal market and cross-border situations; ultimately serving the objectives the internal market seeks to attain. Yet, within thinew individualism a conceptually different class of private actors has emerged that is constrained in economic freedoms, i.e. through obligations, rather than being empowered in the context of the internal market. This thesis will enquire the reasons that led to the development of this counter-culture. Why did it emerge? To what extent does this phenomenon affect the roles of private actors in the internal market? I will demonstrate that under the counter-culture private actors are responsibilized and transformed into ‘competent authorities’, i.e. alternative forms of regulatory authority, in the internal market. Private actors are placed into systems of shared responsibilities the relationships of which are coordinated by EU internal market law. In this regard, the concept of responsibility will serve as a tool to bridge the gap between the new positions EU internal market law allocates to private actors and the emerging legal consequences, i.e. allocation of obligations or tasks. The legal contexts of EU free movement law, EU discrimination law, EU food safety law and EU data protection law will serve as case studies against which the construed conceptual framework will be tested. Under the counter-culture the new individualism is no longer only about the exercise of self-interests. Rather, this form of the new individualism comes with a requirement to give account to the interests of other actors within the internal market.

"Açık Kambiyo Senetleri" başlıklı bu çalışmada, 6102 sayılı Türk Ticaret Kanunu'nun 680. maddesinde yer alan düzenlemeden hareketle Türk hukukunda açık kambiyo senetleri; yani açık bono, açık poliçe ve açık çek ele alınmıştır. Açık kambiyo senetleri, senedi verenin, ileride unsurları tamamlanarak geçerli bir kambiyo senedi şeklinde ortaya çıkmak üzere, karşı tarafa bir doldurma yetkisi ile birlikte vermiş olduğu, imza dışındaki unsurlarının tamamı ya da bir kısmı boş bırakılmış olan, unsurları tam kambiyo senetlerinin ön aşaması niteliğindeki senetlerdir. Açık kambiyo senetlerinde imza sahibi, senedin anlaşmaya aykırı doldurulması rizikosunu üstlenmektedir. Bu nedenle ortaya çıkan hukuki görünüşe güvenerek senedi devralan kötüniyeti veya ağır kusuru bulunmayan hamil iktisabında korunur. TTK'nın 680. maddesinde açık kambiyo senetleri yalnız def'i yönünden ele alınmıştır. Oysa konuya ilişkin olarak üzerinde durulması meseleler bundan ibaret değildir. Bu nedenle üç ana bölümden oluşan bu çalışmanın birinci bölümünde açık kambiyo senetlerine ilişkin genel açıklamalara; ikinci bölümünde açık kambiyo senetlerinde doldurma hakkı, devri ve sona ermesine; üçüncü bölümünde ise açık kambiyo senetlerinin anlaşmaya aykırı doldurulmasının taraflar arası ilişkilerde ileri sürülmesi, ispatı ve cezai sonuçları konularına yer verilmiştir. In this study titled "The Blank Bills of Exchange", starting from Regulation in Article 680 of the Turkish Commercial Code no 6102, The Blank Bills of Exchanges; namely, blank bills, blank notes, and the blank cheques have been evaluated in Turkish law. The Blank Bills of Exchange are the preliminary notes of the full bill of exchange that the singer gave it to the opposing party with a filling entitlement to be revealed in the form of a valid bill of exchange in the future; all or some of the elements outside the signature are left blank. In the Blank Bills of Exchange, the owner of the signature undertakes the risk of filling the notes contrary to the agreement. For this reason, the person takes over the bill of exchange relying on the revealed legal appearance is protected as holder without bad faith or gross negligence. In the 680th article of the Turkish Commercial Code, the blank bills of exchange are dealt with only in terms of exceptions. However, this is not the only issue to focus on. For this reason, in the first part of this study, which consists of three main parts, general explanations about the Blank Bills of Exchange are given while the right to fill, turnover and termination in exchange notes are discussed in the second part. In the last chapter, the submission, prove and criminal consequences of the fulfilment of the Blank Bills of Exchange contrary to the agreement at the inter-party relations are introduced.

The study, entitled “Identification of the parties to the employment relationship: an appraisal of teleological interpretation of statutes”, is a legal-interdisciplinary doctrinal investigation situated within the fields of labour law and the interpretation of statutes. It concerns itself with the proper interpretation of labour legislation in general and the interpretive question as to who should be party to the employment relationship in particular, within the context of the advent of constitutionalism and the proliferation of and the increase in the importance of labour legislation. In law, meaning-generation is a function of statutory interpretation and every application of a text to particular circumstances entails interpretation. The protection extended by labour legislation is only extended to those persons who are defined as “employees”. The study describes the teleological model of statutory interpretation, which aims to give effect to the purpose of a legislative provision in light of constitutional values. The study explores the five elements of (teleological) interpretation that should be considered when interpreting concepts such as “employee”: the text, the context, the telos (or values), the history and the comparative dimension. The chief findings of the study includes: that legislation has become an indispensable source of contemporary labour law; that the courts have adopted a teleological approach to the interpretation of statutes; that the courts have, in interpreting the term “employee”, adopted a teleological approach to the interpretation of statutes; and that the interpretations advanced by the courts have not had the profound effect envisaged by the Constitution on the transformation of society.

The debate on business and human rights attracts the interest of many parties, and regularly makes the headlines. On 19 January 2017 De Morgen, for instance, ran the following headline: “These banks do business with companies that violate human rights and nature”. The discourse suggests that few question that business enterprises should respect human rights. The legal meaning and consequences of associating 'business' with 'human rights' remain contentious, however. By clarifying the existing legal framework this thesis seeks to rationalize the debate. Special attention is paid to enforcing the responsibility of business enterprises for human rights through domestic judicial remedies. The analysis is concretised through a case study on adverse human rights impacts of environmental degradation caused by mining in South Africa. Based on the findings of the study, the thesis reflects on how the international legal framework on business and human rights should be developed further.