International Litigation in Intellectual Property and Information Technology

International Litigation in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Editor: Arnaud Nuyts Co-Editors: Nikitas Hatzimihail, Katarzyna SzychowskaThe pressure to develop an intellectual property litigation framework at a supranational level is enormous. The tensions among technological change, the forces of an ever-more global market, the quest of ...

Financial Activities in European VAT

A Theoretical and Legal Research of the European VAT System and the Actual and Preferred Treatment of Financial Activities

Conventional wisdom holds that taxing financial services under a transaction-based VAT system entails difficulties that render it impossible to tax the services. This timely work investigates where the difficulties lie. The research is undertaken using benchmarks, including the character of European VAT as an indirect ...

Financial services in Europe

an introductory overview

This very useful volume provides a ground up survey, from a business law point of view, of the concept of finance as a vital component of the economic structure of the European Communities. In deeply informed detail it describes the architecture of the financial system ...

Impact assessment in EU lawmaking

Recent constitutional thinking has directed its attention to the profound impact of soft norms on the way legislation is made. This book identifies the European Union's impact assessment regime as a source of these norms. In 2002, the European Commission, later followed by the ...

Article 234 and competition Law

an analysis

It is a truism that almost all the major principles established by the ECJ have been decided in the context of a reference to that court for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 (ex 177) EC. Article 234 facilitates a dialogue between the national courts ...

Public broadcasting and european Law

a comparative examination of public service obligations in six member states

Although EU Member States share a tradition of regulating public broadcasting for the public interest, such regulation has been in decline in recent years. It has been challenged by the emergence of commercial television sworn to the market logic, as well as by satellite services ...

Geographical indications for food products

international legal and regulatory perspectives

Geographical indications (GIs) for food and other names that connote a characteristic or process together with origin fit in with notions of quality, tradition, and support for local producers that are important for the producers, for an increasing number of consumers, and for local development ...

Challenges to Multilateral Trade

the impact of bilateral, preferential and regional agreements

Progress in multilateral negotiations to liberalize trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become more difficult since newer members are generally developing countries with different interests than the United States, the European Union and other industrialized countries. More than 250 free trade agreements (FTAs ...

European Labour Law

This book deals with European labour Law and industrial relations. It covers legislation concerning relations between employers and employees, collective agreements and the case law of the Court of Justice, as well as the structure and strategies of the social actors. The book consists of ...

Chinese Company and Securities Law

investment vehicles, mergers and acqisitions and corporate finance in China

China enjoys the highest level of foreign investment of any country in the world today, and is to all appearances intent on maintaining and even increasing that level. Yet, despite substantial liberalisation pursuant to China's WTO commitments, investment in China remains tightly circumscribed. For ...

Liner Shipping and EU Competition Law

As of October 2008, liner shipping companies lose their privileged status under EU competition law due to withdrawal of the liner conference block exemption, which generously authorized horizontal price-fixing and similar agreements between liner shipping companies. Where the liner consortia block exemption does not apply ...

Valuation for Arbitration

compensation standards, valuation methods and expert evidence

This book provides a clear understanding of the nuts and bolts of valuation approaches for business investments, including market, income and asset-based methods. It reviews tools that arbitrators may employ to reach their final compensation assessment on a principled basis. The book's many practical ...

Competition problems in liberalized telecommunications

regulatory solutions to promote effective competition

This innovative study of the role of competition law in the telecommunications industry starts from a classic perspective: While, in principle, regulation benefits social welfare and efficient allocation of resources, past regulatory experience shows that regulation can be flawed and lead to welfare harm rather ...

Comparative Labour Law and industrial relations in industrialized market economies

Comparativism is no longer a purely academic exercise but has increasingly become an urgent necessity for industrial relations and legal practitioners due to the growth of multinational enterprises and the impact of international and regional organizations aspiring to harmonize rules. The growing need for comprehensive ...

European Media Law

European Union legislation concerning electronic communications media is firmly established as an essential part of the law in the field in Europe. From relevant provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights and the EC Treaty to numerous directives, the most recent being the Audiovisual ...

The Essential english/spanish and spanish/english legal dictionary

With more than 45,000 entries covering all areas of law, plus relevant terms in related spheres of expertise, this new Essential Edition is based on the popular Third Edition of the English/Spanish and Spanish/English Legal Dictionary. These are the dictionaries that lawyers ...

Concise European Patent Law

Eds. Richard Hacon, Jochen Pagenberg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In our technological society patent law plays a central role as an incentive for the development and marketing of new technologies in many fields of business. The number of patent applications continues to grow considerably every year. International and European ...

The Law of the European Union and the European Communities

with reference to changes to be made by the Lisbon Treaty

This newest edition of the classic standard Introduction to the Law of the European Communities provides under a new title the most comprehensive and systematic account available of the law of the EC and the EU-including (unusual for surveys of European law) detailed description and ...

The Law of payment services in the EU

the EC Directive on payment services in the internal market

The role that payments play within the general framework of financial services in the EC is indispensable for the realization of a true single European market including, inter alia, the conditions of cross-border purchasing, the legal framework of consumer protection, and the technical standards against ...

International Law

The ideal companion to any International Law casebook, or to casebooks on International Human Rights Law, International Business Transactions, or International Environmental Law. The Fifth Edition offers: - a clear and accessible writing style - broad coverage of public international issues, complemented by some discussion of salient ...