The regulation of international financial markets

perspectives for reform

International financial relations have become increasingly important for the development of global and national economies. At present these relations are primarily governed by market forces, with little regulatory interference at the international level. In the light of numerous financial crises, this abstinence must be seriously ...

The WTO, the Internet and trade in digital products

EC-US perspectives

The rapid development of the Internet has led to a growing potential for electronic trade in digital content like movies and video games. As a result, there is a need for a global trade framework applicable to such digitally-delivered content products. Yet, digital trade is ...

The executiveand public Law

power and accountability in comparative perspective

For most of the past two hundred years or more - the grand era of national constitution-making - founding fathers and constitutional scholars alike seem to have focused more sharply on questions of legislative power than they have on executive power. Executive power, by contrast, they worried ...

Interpreting Constitutions

a comparative study

This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the ...

The new german Law of obligations

historical and comparative perspectives

On 1 January 2000 the German Civil Code (BGB) became one hundred years old. It had been remarkably resilient throughout a century marked by catastrophic upheavals and a succession of fundamentally different political regimes. Two years later, however, the most sweeping individual reform ever to ...

Corporate governance in context

corporations, states and markets in Europe, Japan and US

Increased regulatory competition has sharpened the comparative awareness of advantages or disadvantages of different national models of political economy, economic organization, governance and regulation. Although institutional change is slow and subject to functional complementarities as well as social and cultural entrenchment, at least some features ...

EC public procurement

case Law and regulation

Public procurement represents a specialist yet important area of practice in the European and international business and commercial legal environment. This book offers an inclusive, coherent and practical analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence, with the principal focus on the case law of the ...

Party funding and campaign financing in international perspective

This volume deals with questions of political party funding and campaign financing, issues which arouse controversy in many parts of the world. How are the central actors in the political arena supposed to gather the funds necessary to operate effectively on behalf of their chosen ...

La armonización del Derecho de obligaciones en Europa

Coord. Ferran Badosa Coll, Esther Arroyo i Amayuelas.Es notoria La importancia que cada vez más adquiere el proceso de construcción de un Derecho privado común a todos Los países de la Unión Europea y, para demostrarlo, baste de momento señalar que

Es notoria La importancia que cada vez más adquiere el proceso de construcción de un Derecho privado común a todos Los países de la Unión Europea y, para demostrarlo, baste de momento señalar que existen ya tres resoluciones del Parlamento europeo {1989, 1994, 2001) que ...

Legal risk in the financial markets

This timely new book explains what legal risk means in the context of the financial markets and why concerns about legal risk have grown in recent years. It also considers how legal risk is intended to be addressed as part of operational risk under the ...

The creation of States in international Law

As much as was ever the case in 1979 when the first edition of "The Creation of States in International Law" published, in the 21st century problems of territorial status and statehood are likely to continue to be a focal point of international disputes. As ...

El Derecho de impugnación del socio en la Sociedad Anónima cotizada

Obra que estudia y analiza en profundidad las recientes reformas europeas del derecho de impugnación del socio en la sociedad anónima, partiendo de dos ámbitos: por un lado, los modelos normativos sobre impugnación de acuerdos de la junta general y su evolución, y por otro ...

The politics of adoption

international perspectives on Law, policy and practice

INDEX: Introduction.Part I: Adoption and Society. 1. Adoption: Concept, Principles and Social Construct. 2. The Changing Face of Adoption in the UK * Part II: Adoption and the Law. 3. The Legal Functions of Adoption. 4. International Benchmarks for Modern Adoption Law * Part III: Contemporary ...

La responsabilidad en el transporte aéreo internacional

de Varsovia (1929) a Montreal (1999)

Esta obra aborda la configuración actual de la responsabilidad civil de las compañías aéreas en el transporte de mercancías y de personas, tomando como referente el Convenio de Montreal, analizando la evolución del "Sistema Varsovia", atendiendo a la concurrencia de normas de Derecho aéreo comunitario ...

Intellectual property rights and the EC competition rules

This latest monograph by Professor Korah on the recent group exemption consists of a detailed and critical commentary on the technology transfer block exemption of 2004, with annotated copies of the regulation and guidelines, together with a substantial chapter on refusal to supply or license ...

The origin of goods

rules of origin in regional trade agreements

The dark side of preferential trade agreements, Rules of Origin (RoO) are used to determine the eligibility of goods to preferential treatment. Ostensibly meant to prevent the trans-shipment of imported products across Free Trade Agreement borders after superficial screwdriver assembly, they act in reality as ...

Protección de datos de carácter personal en Iberoamérica

(II Encuentro Iberoamericano de Protección de Datos, La Antigua - Guatemala, 2-6 de junio de 2003)

ÍNDICE: PRESENTACIÓN DECLARACIÓN DE LA ANTIGUA DECLARACIÓN DE SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA ESTUDIOS GENERALES: - El derecho fundamental a la protección de datos personales (LOPD) (José Luis Piñar Mañas) - Breve descripción de la evolución histórica y del marco normativo internacional del derecho fundamental a la ...

The politics of sexual harassment

a comparative study of the United States and the European Union, and Germany

Sexual harassment, in particular in the workplace, is a controversial topic which often makes headline news. What accounts for the cross- national variation in laws, employer policies, and implementation of policies dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace? Why was the United States on the ...

The public Law/Law private divide

une entente assez cordiale?: la distinction du Droit public et du Droit privé: regards français et britanniques

The contributions brought together in this book derive from joint seminars, held by scholars between colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Paris II. Their starting point is the original divergence between the two jurisdictions, with the initial rejection of the public-private ...

The German Law of contract

a comparative treatise

Recently the contract section of the German Code was radically amended after one hundred years of un-altered existence. "The German Law of Contract", radically recast, enlarged, and re-written, now details and explains for the first time these changes for the benefit of Anglophone lawyers. Along ...