1. Similarly G. Hertig and H. Kanda, ‘Creditor Protection’, in R. Kraakman, et al., The Anatomy of Corporate Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2004) p. 71: ‘The need to protect corporate creditors, however, does not necessarily imply that corporate law must do the protecting: the job could be left entirely to contracting between the parties or to the general law of debtor-creditor relations.’
2. See W. Wilburg, Entwicklung eines beweglichen Systems im geltenden Recht (Graz, Verlag Jos. A. Kienreich 1950).
3. See W. Posch, ‘Die Bedeutung des Beweglichen Systems für die Rechtsvergleichung und das Einheitsprivatrecht’, in F. Bydlinski, H. Krejci, B. Schilcher and V. Steininger, eds., Das Bewegliche System im geltenden und künftigen Recht (Vienna/New York, Springer 1986) p. 253 at p. 254 et seq.
4. The metaphor is taken from R.M. Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Cambridge, Harvard University Press 1986) p. 239.
5. This approach is suggested by H. Fleischer, ‘Kapitalschutz und Durchgriffshaftung bei Auslandsgesellschaften’, in M. Lutter, ed., Europäische Auslandsgesellschaften in Deutschland (Cologne, Otto Schmidt 2005) p. 49 at p. 107 et seq.