WTO

institutions and dispute settlement

In a practical and authoritative article-by-article account, this volume covers the legislative history, interpretation and practical application of the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization.

Managing innovation

new technology, new products, and new services in a global economy

Managing Innovation, Second Edition is devoted to better understanding and better management of all of the causes and consequences of change that have technological implications in and around our global organizations. This new edition adds more materials and cases on service innovation and it is ...

The trial proceedings of the International Criminal Court

ICTY and ICTR precedents

This is the first publication on the trial proceedings of the International Criminal Court, the ICTY and the ICTR collected in one volume. It covers the essential procedural and evidentiary aspects of trials before the ICC from the beginning of an investigation until the sentence ...

Partiti e sistemi di partito

il <<Cartel party>> e oltre

Intento di questo volume è offrire al lettore un quadro accurato e il più possibile esaustivo del dibattito e delle ricerche recenti sui partiti e sui sistemi di partito. In apertura, l'ormai classico saggio di Katz e Mair che nel 1995 introdusse un nuovo ...

The general principles of the EC Law

The European Court of Justice has profoundly influenced the development of the legal order of the European Community through the elaboration of unwritten general principles of law. The general principles derive from the fundamental values underlying the national legal systems. This fully revised and updated ...

Trust

Can we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of public distrust justified or do we need to re-evaluate our understanding ...

Global justice

Global justice has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Whilst half of the world's population continue to live on less than $2 per day, there are growing demands for a world where democracy, development and security are permanent features in ...

Rawls's Law of peoples

a realistic utopia?

John Rawls is considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English- speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls's theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, "The Law of ...

Beyond individual choice

teams and frames in Game Theory

Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation - most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary ...

The evolution of the trade regime

politics, Law, and economics of the GATT and the WTO

The "Evolution of the Trade Regime" offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). While other books confine themselves to describing contemporary ...

Microfoundations of financial economics

an introduction to general equilibrium asset pricing

This textbook takes the reader from the level of microeconomics principles through to modern asset pricing theory. Yvan Lengwiler elegantly links together issues that have in the past been the territory of general economic theorists on the one hand, and financial economists on the other ...

Measuring efficiency in health care

analytic techniques and health policy

With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple objectives ...

Approaching late antiquity

the transformation from early to late empire

What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of cultural history ...

Venturing beyond

law and morality in kabbalistic mysticism

Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical discretion would seemingly be transcended and the very foundation for ethical ...

Principles of European Law

The Study Group on a European Civil Code has taken upon itself the task of drafting common European principles for the most important aspects of the law of obligations and for certain parts of the law of property in movables which are especially relevant for ...

Employment Law

an introduction

This is a textbook on UK employment law which is both introductory and comprehensive. It is aimed primarily at people who have not studied law previously, but who are studying for qualifications at either undergraduate or postgraduate level that include employment law modules. The book ...

The new public contracting

regulation, responsiveness, relationality

This book charts the significant increase in Britain over the last 25 years in the deployment of contract as a regulatory mechanism across a broad spectrum of social relationships. Since Labour came to power in 1997, the trend has accelerated, the use of contract spreading ...

Judging under uncertainty

an institutional theory of legal interpretation

How should judges, in America and elsewhere, interpret statutes and the Constitution? Previous work on these fundamental questions has typically started from abstract views about the nature of democracy or constitutionalism, or the nature of legal language, or the essence of the rule of law ...

Les États-Unis d'Europe

" Ce manifeste d'un authentique militant pour les États-Unis d'Europe constitue une importante contribution au débat sur notre avenir. Elle émane d'une personnalité politique qui, en tant que Premier ministre de la Belgique, s'illustre constamment par sa volonté de faire avancer la ...

Climate change, justice and future generations

Table of Contents: 1 Intergenerational justice in a warming world 2 Space, time and the science of climate change 3 Climate change, future generations and the currency of justice 4 Climate change, future generations and the profile of justice 5 The non-reciprocity problem 6 The ...