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 ...

Making globalization good

the moral challenges of global capitalism

How can we develop a global economic architecture that is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive and sustainable over time? If global capitalism - arguably the most efficient wealth-creating system known to man - is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent ...

An introduction to the law of trusts

This text provides a concise and analytical overview of account of the English law of trusts, drawing out especially this area's underlying concerns and suggesting ways in which the rules can be explained and evaluated. By providing law students with an intelligible framework within ...

Land Law 2003-2004

Tax Policy

theory and practice in OECD countries

How do governments justify their choice of tax policy? What are the arguments for and against the choices they make? Are there common trends in the tax policy choices of OECD countries? This text provides a guide to tax policies pursued by the governments of ...

Trusts and equity

Family Law in the twentieth century

a history

Innovation management

strategies, implementation and profits

This second edition of Innovation Management provides a systematic approch to the strategies and processes that underlay the financial results of innovation, using multi-functional research from economics, organizational theory, general management and marketing, and the strategy literature. Índice 1 Introduction and Overview I. FUNDAMENTALS 2 ...

Developement policy as public finance

How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost- benefit analysis as a ...

The analysis of structured securities

precise risk measurement and capital allocation

The Analysis of Structured Securities presents the first intellectually defensible framework for systematic assessment of the credit quality of structured securities. It begins with a detailed description and critique of methods used to rate asset-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and asset- backed commercial paper. The ...