Business Law category: 3875 books
Renewable Energy Law in Europe
Challenges and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The law of renewable energies has always been subject to change. Together with the Scandinavian Institute for Maritime Law of the University of Oslo, the Berlin Institute for Energy and Regulatory Law has brought together energy law experts from Great Britain, Norway, Finland and Germany in order...
by M. Trebilcock, Anthony Duggan, Lorne Sossin
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access to the justice system – this basic right is not being met for many low and middle income Canadians. This book focuses on the problem of civil access to justice for middle income earners – those...
Enhancing Capabilities through Labour Law
Informal Workers in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need to ensure appropriate employment and income, rights at work, and effective social protection in informal economic activities. Such a call by the ILO is urgent...
Agricultural Law
Current Issues from a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book focuses on the social and environmental issues being addressed by agricultural law within the current globalised system.
What is agricultural law? Agricultural regulations concern and affect essential human needs and values that must be dealt with by pursuing a comprehensive and coordinated...
Cultural Diversity in International Law
The Effectiveness of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) was adopted in 2005 and designed to allow States to protect and promote cultural policies. This book examines the effectiveness of the CDCE and offers ways by which its implementation may be improved...
The Logic of Financial Nationalism
The Challenges of Cooperation and the Role of International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Using case studies ranging from cross-border bank resolution to sovereign debt, the author analyzes the role of international law in protecting financial sovereignty, and the risks for the global financial system posed by the lack of international cooperation. Despite the post-crisis reforms, the...
by Pascal Pichonnaz, Louise Gullifer
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This book considers the issues involved in international commercial disputes where set-off has been used. Most such disputes are conducted through arbitration so the focus of this book is on the effect of arbitration proceedings on set-off claims. The book considers the important institutional rules...
Optimal Regulation and the Law of International Trade
The Interface between the Right to Regulate and WTO Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Are the limitations imposed on World Trade Organization (WTO) members' right to regulate efficient? This is a question that is only scarcely, if ever, analysed in existing literature. Boris Rigod aims to provide an answer to this fundamental concern. Using the tools of economic analysis and in particular...
Economics and the Interpretation and Application of U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Law
Volume I Basic Concepts and Economics-Based Legal Analyses of Oligopolistic and Predatory Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This volume (1) defines the specific-anticompetitive-intent, lessening-competition, distorting-competition, and exploitative-abuse tests of illegality promulgated by U.S. and/or E.U. antitrust law, (2) compares the efficiency defenses promulgated by U.S. and E.U. antitrust law, (3) compares the...
by Joseph E. Harrington Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
A review of the theoretical research on unlawful collusion, focusing on the impact and optimal design of competition law and enforcement.
Collusion occurs when firms in a market coordinate their behavior for the purpose of producing a supracompetitive outcome. The literature on the theory of...
The Protection of Foreign Investments in Mongolia
Treaties, Domestic Law, and Contracts on Investments in International Comparison and Arbitral Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book analyses the adequacy of Mongolia’s legal system for foreign investment protection by conducting a multi-level assessment of international investment treaties, domestic legislation of the host State, and investor-State contracts from an international comparative perspective. The investigation...
Covenants and Third-Party Creditors
Empirical and Law & Economics Insights Into a Common Pool Problem
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book adds to the debate on the effects of covenants on third-party creditors (externalities), which have recently become a focus of discussion in the contexts of bankruptcy law, corporate law and corporate governance. The general thrust of the debate is that negative effects on third-party creditors...
Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development
National and International Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book reflects the research output of the Committee on the International Protection of Consumers of the International Law Association (ILA). The Committee was created in 2008, with a mandate to study the role of public and private law to protect consumers, review UN Guidelines, and to model laws,...
Law and Economics in Europe and the U.S.
The Legacy of Juergen Backhaus
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This volume traces the evolution of the field of law and economics from its European roots to its neoclassical “Chicagoan” period to its current identity as a more fluid, transatlantic discipline. Paying special attention to the work of German economist Juergen Backhaus, who was instrumental...