After Enron

improving corporate Law and modernising securities regulation in Europe and the US

At the end of the twentieth century, it was thought by many that the Anglo-American system of corporate governance was performing effectively. Some observers claimed to see an international trend towards convergence around this model, in which firms raise finance on capital markets from dispersed ...

Good faith in the jurisprudence of the WTO

the protection of legitimate expectations, good faith interpretation and fair dispu ute settlement

What does the concept of good faith express? This book is the first to account for what good faith stands for in international trade law. It describes how, why and when the concept of good faith links WTO Agreements with public international law. It serves ...

Boundaries and frontiers of labour Law

Labour law has always been preoccupied with boundaries. One can either be an 'employee' or not, an 'employer' or not, and the answer dictates who comes within the scope of labour law, for better or worse. But such divisions have always been difficult, and in ...

Jury trials and plea bargaining

a true history

Family Law and family values

Each individual experiences obligations arising from personal relationships. These are often hard to fulfil and give rise to tension between the demands of various relationships, between meeting current or future needs, but also between private norms and the demands of a public set of rules ...

Intellectual Property and private international Law

Patent enforcement Worldwide

a survey of 15 countries: writings in honour of Dieter Stauder

Principles of european antitrust enforcement

The Constitution of private governance

product standards in the regulation of integrating markets

Monitoring Fundamental Rights in the EU

the contribution of the Fundamental Rights Agency

Comparative remedies for breach of contract

The book provides a comparative analysis of the law relating to remedies for breach of contract. It examines different remedies such as specific performance and damages and does so from the viewpoint of different legal systems, principally the English, American, German, French and Israeli. Each ...

Our republican Constitution

This new book by Adam Tomkins sets out a radical vision of the British constitution. It argues that despite its outwardly monarchic form the constitution is profoundly informed, and indeed shaped, by values and practices of republicanism. The republican reading of the constitution presented in ...

EU distribution law

The English judges

their role the changing Constitution

From promise to contract

towards a liberal theory of contract

Labour Laws and global trade

The European Union

a polity of States and people

Interpretation and legal theory

This work provides a critical assessment of Ronald Dworkin's methodological turn, away from analytical jurisprudence towards a theory of interpretation, and the issues it gives rise to.

Constituonal rights after globalization

Contracting with companies

This work surveys the main issues in company law relating to contracts made by or with companies. It covers the identification of corporate contractual parties, pre-incorporation contracts and other contracts with non-existent companies, the powers of the board to bind companies and the relics of ...

Jurisprudence or legal science?

a debate about the nature of Legal Theory

The role of regions and sub-national actors in Europe

essays in european Law