Capital markets and Company Law

This book investigates the relationship between company law, securities markets and securities regulation. The purpose of this investigation is to try and determine whether listed companies should be treated differently by company law from other companies. The issues here raise questions about corporate governance, the ...

The Oxford handbook of strategy

The Oxford Handbook of Strategy is a two-volume set on the key subject areas and issues currently under discussion in the field of strategy. It unites an international team of contributors who are all recognised authorities on the topic of their chapter. The Handbook will ...

Law and informal practices

the post-communist experience

The idea of property

its meaning and power

Civil code of the russian federation

Parts One, Two and Three.

This volume provides a complete and authoritative English translation of Parts I, II, and III of the Russian Civil Code, which entered into force in complete form in March 2002. The Civil Code is the central document of market reforms in Russia, dealing with the ...

Courts-Martial, discipline, and the criminal process in the armed services

Family Law

Law and geography

Governing work and welfare in a new economy

European and American experiments

Part 1: Experimenting with the Work-Welfare Nexus: The European Union 2 David M. Trubek and James Mosher: New Governance, Employment Policy, and the European Social Model 3 Janine Goetschy: The European Employment Strategy, Multi-level Governance, and Policy Coordination 4 Maurizio Ferrera and Anton Hermerijck: Recalibrating ...

Cases & materials on international Law

The engines of european integration

delegation, agency, and agenda setting in the EU

The European Union is composed of its 15 member governments, yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive, judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission, the Court of Justice and the European Parliament. In this book, a ...

Finance theory and asset pricing

The economics of public spending

Political institutions in contemporary France

The competing jurisdictions of international courts and tribunals

Recent years have witnessed a sharp increase in the number of international courts and tribunals (e.g., WTO, NAFTA, ITLOS, ICC, etc.) and greater willingness on the part of states and other international actors to subject themselves to the compulsory jurisdiction of international adjudicative mechanisms ...

Immigration, asylum and Human Rights

The Human Rights Act 1998 has had a profound impact on the UK legal system. Blackstone's Human Rights Series provides expert, practical advice for lawyers to meet this challenge, focusing on the implications of the Act in particular areas of practice. Human rights law ...

Understanding work and employment

industrial relations in transition

Bouncers

violence and governance in the night-time economy

Universities and intellectual property

ownership and exploitation

The vital role played by universities in producing creative and innovative products is becoming increasingly recognized both by policy makers and by the universities themselves. Universities are now looking to tighten up their policies on intellectual property so as to maximize revenue, for instance through ...

The Law of freedom of information

The globalized city

economic restructuring and social polarization in european cities

The evolution of new markets

How do markets evolve? Why are some innovations picked up straightaway whilst others take years to be commercialized? Are there first-mover advantages? Why do we behave with "irrational exuberance" in the early evolution of markets as was the case with the dot.com boom? Paul ...