European direct taxation

case Law and regulations

Practitioners and researchers with an on-going interest in European direct taxation require ready access to applicable case law and regulations. But access is inadequate if the materials are not well organized and kept current on reliable basis. The key features of this highly useful work ...

EC competition and telecomunications Law

Eds. Christian Koenig...[et.al]. This new volume updates the groundbreaking analysis of its first edition in 2002, when the EC common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services had just entered into force. So much has changed in the intervening years that that ...

Beyond open skies

a new regime for international aviation

Increasingly, governments everywhere are backing away from their earlier micromanagement of international aviation, allowing carriers to tap market opportunities wherever they can be found and with far more ease and responsiveness. Accordingly, the industry will inevitably generate new paradigms of competitive market behaviour. This timely ...

Hedge fund regulation in the European Union

current trends and future prospects

While hedge funds have been part and parcel of the global asset management landscape for well over fifty years, it is only relatively recently that they came to prominence as one of the fastest growing and most vigorous sub-sectors of the financial services industry. Despite ...

An institutional assessment of antitrust policy

the Latin America experience

CONTENTS: Introduction Latin American Antitrust Policy: A Concealed Utopia? Pt. I The Wellsprings of Latin American Competition Policy Ch. 1 Government Intervention as the Source of Monopoly in Latin America Ch. 2 The Adoption of Antitrust Policy in Latin America Ch. 3 Antitrust Policy: The ...

The role of judiciary in enviromental governance

comparative perspectives

Eds. Louis J. Kotzé, Alexander R. Paterson. Although the concept of 'environmental governance' has yet to be precisely defined, it is already clear that domestic courts worldwide are playing an increasingly important role in developing, interpreting, applying and enforcing environmental law. This important book investigates ...

The international trade policy for technology transfers

legal and economic dilemmas on multilateralism versus bilateralism

The importance of international technology transfer for economic development can hardly be overstated. But the wide range of interests among developed and developing countries has long been the cause of enormous political obstacles to the conclusion of efficient international agreements dealing with technology transfers. This ...

The role of economic analysis in the EC competition rules

The thesis of this now-classic work - that the European Commission and the Community Courts, under the necessity of forging an effective competition policy, created an entire new school of thought in economic theory that permeates the disciplinary boundary between law and economics - has been gaining ...

Division of powers in European Union Law

the delimitation of internal competence between the EU and the Member States

The European Union has flourished and expanded over the last fifty years as a unique system that lies midway between a federal state and an anarchical international system. Different actors coexist within a cooperative hegemony of Member States, and the allocation of competences and decision-making ...

Multilingual interpretation of European Union Law

According to many scholars, Community law simply cannot be understood without taking its multilingual character into account. The equal authenticity of all language versions of a Community provision, and the danger of diverging meanings between versions, imply a duty to consider the various versions when ...

European Corporate Law

Aut. Adriaan Dorresteijn...[et al]. In the past few years, the European Commission and the European Court of Justice have each in their own way contributed to a resurgence of the harmonisation programme in corporate law. The Court's trilogy of its Centros, A berseering ...

The legal profession in the European Union

The demand for new and increased legal services brought about by the process of European integration, closer relations among Member States, and changes in the way services are delivered under the influence of new technologies have called for adjustments in legislation and regulations and given ...

The politics of the draft common frame of reference

Ed. Alessandro Somma. Recently, following work supported by the European Commission, the Outline Edition of the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) concerning European private law was published. However, the Commission's project has been seriously challenged, right down to its basic perception - that obstacles ...

Renewable energy sources

a chance to combat climate change

Everybody knows that climate change is one of the greatest threats facing the planet. The costs of failure to act are becoming unthinkable. Yet we know now that if developed countries agree to cut their collective emissions by 30 per cent by 2020, annual economic ...

The reform of EC competition Law

new challenges

Eds. Loannis Lianos, Loannis Kokkoris. Responding to external and internal pressure for change the slow reform of EC competition law since the 1989, Merger Regulation can now be seen as a major thread rather than a series of peripheral developments. Now, a body of 'new ...

International exchange of information and the protection of taxpayers

CONTENTS: Preface Ch. 1 Introduction and Problem Definition Ch. 2 Backgrounds of Legal Protection Ch. 3 Interpretation of Tax Treaties Ch. 4 Aspects of International Law and the Obligation Concerning the Exchange of Information Ch. 5 Terms and Conditions Relating to the Exchange: Secrecy and ...

Constitutional Law of 2 EU Member States:

Bulgaria and Romania. The 2007 enlargement

This book deals with the constitutional law of the two Member States that acceded to the European Union in 2007: Bulgaria and Romania. It is complementary to 'Constitutional Law of 15 EU Member States', edited by Lucas Prakke and Constantijn Kortmann, and to 'Constitutional Law ...

Legal dictionnary

english-spanish/spanish-english

This Dictionary provides over 100,000 entries and over 135,000 equivalents covering all areas of law, plus relevant terms in related spheres of expertise. This is the Dictionary that lawyers, translators, and those working in English and Spanish in law and associated fields have ...

Introduction to Greek Law

Now in its third edition, Introduction to Greek Law remains the sole comprehensive summary of Greek law in a language other than Greek. In twenty insightful chapters, written by some of the best authorities on Greek law in Greece and in the United States, the ...

A Practical Guide to National Competition Rules Across Europe

Over the last three years, the anti-trust environment in Europe has undergone major changes, as the so called process of modernisation gathers pace. In May 2004, the European Commission lost its exclusive jurisdiction to deal with restrictive agreements and dominance. As a result EU Member ...