Prof.mr.dr. A.J.P. Brack

Professor / Chair Business Legal Studies

Building number 10

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Ravelijn

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+ 31 53 489 3488

a.j.p.brack@utwente.nl

General information

“Business Law” focuses on internal legal processes of business enterprise whereas “Regulatory Environment” emphasizes external legal influence; the former is private law oriented, the latter belongs more or less to the domain of public law. We take both fields into consideration (Business Legal Studies) and have therefore developed the Paradigm of Managerial Law. This concept recognizes two important roles of the law in society: the normative and the instrumental one. Legal instruments (agreements, property rights, patents, legal persons) enables the establishment of a company and its continued existence. Legal norms and normative governmental policies limit the freedom of business enterprise. Managerial Law is a method to combine instrumental and normative legal aspects with the distinctive structures of the main functions management has to perform: human resources, production, marketing, financial and strategic management. This method reveals the legal agenda of professional managers and facilitates the performance of a legal audit.

Research Interests

European Product Law: Product Liability & Safety, CE-mark (food-nonfood)

Regulation of Innovation in European Competition Law

Corporate Governance & Corporate Social Responsibility

Compliance, legal coaching & consultancy

Teaching Courses

Business Law (the managerial way)

Employment Law & Labor Relations

Antitrust-Competition Law

Innovation & Regulation

Links

Antoni Brack is co-founder and member of the Editorial Board of the Dutch Consumer Law Journal (Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht). He was co-founder and former chairman of the Supervisory Board of (the research for policy organisation) Consumer Safety Institute domiciled in Amsterdam, which holds the secretaryship of Eurosafe: the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. He is a non-executive member of the Supervisory Board of a Dutch subsidiary company which is part of an Anglo-American business group in the chemical industry. He is a part-time judge in the Court of Appeals of Arnhem, The Netherlands.