Eco-Finance

the legal design and regulation of market-based environmental instruments

Market-based environmental instruments are the most creative of the many initiatives devised to combat air and water pollution and promote biodiversity. Among these, none has attracted more attention than the burgeoning trade in environmental allowances and credits. Originally developed in the United States around 1990 ...

The legal elements of european identity

EU citizenship and migration Law

The individual has become visible throughout Europe and within its institutions as a potential or actual rights holder. He or she is no longer defined as visible or invisible in law by the nation state alone. In today s Europe, he or she establishes identity ...

European banking and financial services law

The initiative to harmonise banking and financial services law within the European Communities, ongoing since 1977, has been largely successful. Practitioners in every EU State today use pertinent EC directives and regulations on a daily basis. Yet, surprisingly, this new resource is a practical guide ...

The future development of competition framework

In the march of economic globalization it has become increasingly apparent that divergence in competition policy from one country to another is a major stumbling block. More than any other factor, an international consensus of competition laws is sure to facilitate the clear working interaction ...

German environmental Law for practitioners

Environmental Law for Practitioners is an invaluable, practice-related introduction to environmental law in Germany, written by specialist legal advisers with extensive experience in the practical application of environmental law. This wholly revised second edition takes account of recent developments in rapidly changing environmental legislation and ...

Unification of tort law

multiple tortfeasors

The foundations of tort law differ considerably in the various European legal systems. For a number of years a group of tort law experts, the European Group on Tort Law, has been engaged in a systematic examination of the fundamental questions of tort law with ...

The evolution of legal business forms in Europe and the United States

venture capital, joint venture and partnership structures

E-commerce Law

National and transnational topics and perspectives

Globalization and the limits of national merger control laws

Merger control in Europe

EU, member states and accession states

Judicial discretion in european perspective

The rule of law in Japan

A comparative analysis

Communications in EU antitrust law

market power and public interest

Approaching the theme from an antitrust perspective and focusing on telecommunications and television broadcasting, this volume examines how traditional European competition law doctrines and principles can be applied to this converging sector. The application of antitrust rules to the communications sector is often one of ...

European securities regulation

Although efforts to regulate securities at a supranational European level date back to the first company law directive in 1968, it is only since the promulgation of the 1999 Financial Services Action Plan that the playing field has shown any real leveling for market participants ...

A deecade beyond Maastricht

the european social dialogue revisitedThe european social dialogue revisited

International marine environmental Law

institutions, implementation and innovations

Chioce of Law in copyright and related rights

alternatives to the Lex Protectionis

The european commsission's jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers

Jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers. Second edition

Since the EC Merger Regulation was adopted in 1989, merger control has become established as an important part of EC competition law so that today all major businesses and law firms are aware of the Commission s extensive powers in this field. Right from the ...

Money laundering counter-measures in the European Union

a new paradigm of security governance versus fundamental legal principles

The past fifteen years witnessed the emergence globally of a plethora of legislative measures aimed at countering money laundering. These developments have been inextricably linked with the growing international focus on newly perceived and/or prioritised global security threats such as organised crime and terrorism ...

Business Law guide to Belgium

Transnational Business Law

A Development Law Perspective

International Commercial Arbitartion

important contemporary questions