Business Law category: 3875 books
by Charles Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Providing a thorough legal analysis of money in all its aspects, Mann on the Legal Aspect of Money has been the leading text on the private and public law of money ever since the publication of the first edition in 1939. This latest edition considers issues that arose in the course of the financial...
Corporate Boards in Law and Practice
A Comparative Analysis in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and are thus regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while there is a common core of rules on the boards considerable differences remain. These differences depend partly on shareholder...
by Dr Gunnar Niels, Dr Helen Jenkins, James Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Competition law is rooted in economic theory, and economics provides many of the standard tools often applied in competition investigations. As a result, a strong foundation in economics is an invaluable asset for practitioners in this area of law. This is the new edition of the popular and well-regarded...
by Michael Evan Gold
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
An Introduction to Labor Law is a useful and course-tested primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law that applies to union...
Minilateralism
How Trade Alliances, Soft Law and Financial Engineering are Redefining Economic Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Economic diplomacy is changing. The multilateral organizations that dominated the last half of the twentieth century no longer monopolize economic affairs. Instead, countries are resorting to more modest 'minilateral' strategies like trade alliances, informal 'soft law' agreements, and financial engineering...
Comparative Corporate Governance
A Functional and International Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions, but it creates risks both for shareholders and for third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from foreign experiences and adapt their regulatory regimes to them....
by Jean Jacques du Plessis, Anil Hargovan, Jason Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Now in its fourth edition, Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance offers comprehensive coverage of the key topics and emerging themes in private sector corporate governance. It explains both the principles of corporate governance systems and their real-world application in an authoritative...
by Evi Plomaritou, Anthony Papadopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Now in its eighth edition, this classic text is a first point of reference for anyone looking to obtain an understanding of chartering and shipbroking practice. It provides hands-on, commercially-focused explanations of chartering business and invaluable advice on how the shipping market operates...
Meeting Procedures
Parliamentary Law and Rules of Order for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
From voting and debating to rules on quorum, this is a complete, modern guide to meeting procedures. Packed with simplified information that avoids jargon, it meets the needs of most non-profit organizations and professional associations.
The author emphasizes the principles of meetings and introduces the use of modern technology in meetings.
The Microsoft Antitrust Cases
Competition Policy for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A comprehensive account of the decades-long, multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the digital age.
For more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice, various states, the European Commission, and many private litigants...
Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity
Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The lack of gender parity in the governance of business corporations has ignited a heated global debate, leading policymakers to wrestle with difficult questions that lie at the intersection of market activity and social identity politics. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with corporate board...
Corporate Sovereignty
Law and Government under Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Refinery explosions. Accounting scandals. Bank meltdowns. All of these catastrophes—and many more—might rightfully be blamed on corporations. In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from increased government regulation to corporate codes of conduct to stop corporate abuses. Joshua Barkan...
Re-thinking Intellectual Property
The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and...
Working Knowledge
Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that...