Halbhuber's project started out as a treatise on the policies of European company law (3), but eventually became an analysis of the German academic discussion of European company law. Halbhuber puts the case that German lawyers, entangled in the structures of their national private law doctrine, widely misinterpreted the judgments of the ECJ in Segers (4), Daily Mail (5) and Centros, thus dissuading agents from using foreign (e.g. English or Irish) private limited companies for their business activities in Germany.