# kaal:claim:617681-015

**Claim.** Member States unwilling to incur the rule switching costs of conducting judicial proceedings in English could be precluded from marketing their corporate charters in other Member States that do not share their language.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- English being the only language widely understood throughout the EU

**Source quote.**

> Member States unwilling to incur the rule switching costs involved with using English in judicial proceedings could be precluded from marketing their corporate charters in other Member States that do not speak the same language.

**From.** Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, *Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro* (2004), D.I.1 Language Barriers, page 24

**Cite as.** Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681

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**Failure mode.** language-lock-out  (family: jurisdictional-conflict)

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** language-barriers, rule-switching-costs, corporate-charters, bundled-product

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