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Regulation, compliance and ethics in Law Firms

Regulation, compliance, and ethics are the three common features of all well-run law firms. Without an understanding of regulatory expectations, compliance duties and ethical behaviours, a firm runs the risk of censure, adverse publicity, and client dissatisfaction. It is essential that law firm owners and ...

Equity

conscience goes to market

This book sets out to defend the claim that Equity ought to remain a separate body of law; the temptation to iron-out the differences between neighbouring doctrines on the two sides of the Equity/Common Law divide should, in most cases, be resisted. The theoretical ...

International sales terms

An initial chapter provides an introduction into CISG and Swiss law (as proposed proper law of the terms of sale) with respect to such legal areas which do not fall within the scope of the CISG (e.g. transfer of claims, offsetting, periods of limitation ...

Community design regulation

article-by-article commentary

Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community designs (CDR) protects the appearance of a design against counterfeiting and piracy, be it registered or unregistered. The right is applicable throughout the European Union. The registered design will be obtained in a single procedure from the ...

Criminal Law reform now

proposals and critique

If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? The editors put this question to nine leading academics and practitioners. The first nine chapters of the collection present their responses in the form of legal reform proposals, with topics ranging ...

Las reinas de la Monarquía Asturiana y su tiempo (718-925)

Esta obra trata de ofrecer una aproximación a la realidad de las mujeres regias dentro de la Monarquía Asturiana entre los años 718 y 925, exponiendo el conocimiento histórico sobre ellas, pero también la posterior elaboración del relato histórico sobre las mismas. Si bien es ...

White collar crime

a comparative perspective

White collar crime has expanded significantly over the course of the past two decades. Yet, not only as the amount of national and international legislation in the field grown, but it has also endured changes driving it away from the classic criminal law. These trends ...

International Law

a European perspective

This textbook offers for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the classic doctrines and main areas of international law from a European perspective, meeting the needs of the many European law schools teaching public international law in English. Special attention is devoted to the ...

Robot rights

A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely come to take up increasingly important ...

The right to employee inventions in Patent Law

debunking the myth of incentive theory

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends. This book addresses the issue through reference ...

The Constitution of Ireland

a contextual analysis

This book provides a contextual analysis of constitutional governance in Ireland. It presents the 1937 Constitution as a seminal moment in an ongoing constitutional evolution, rather than a foundational event. The book demonstrates how the Irish constitutional order revolves around a bipartite separation of powers ...

The impact of equity and restitution in commerce

Commercial relationships give rise to diverse forms of legal obligation in private law, including contract, tort, agency, company law and partnership. More controversially, equity and the law of restitution have a less defined and somewhat ambulatory role in regulating the affairs of commercial parties. Nevertheless ...

The Age of ESMA

governing EU financial markets

Since its establishment in 2011, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has become a pivotal actor in EU financial market regulation and supervision. Its burgeoning influence extends from the rule-making process to supervisory convergence/coordination to direct supervision. Reflecting the now critical importance of ...

EU Anti-discrimination Law beyond gender

The EU has slowly but surely developed a solid body of equality law that prohibits different facets of discrimination. While the Union had initially developed anti-discrimination norms that served only the commercial rationale of the common market, focusing on nationality (of a Member State) and ...

A framework for European Competition Law

co-ordinated diversity

This book asks whether the current push to increase uniformity in substantive and procedural competition policy and enforcement in Europe, as well as in related institutional structures, is desirable. It focuses on European Union (EU) competition policy and enforcement (related to Articles 101 and 102 ...

Criminal liability of managers in Europe

punishing excessive risk

Every managerial decision is risky, at least to some extent. Conducting business is impossible without venturing into new territories and even the most ordinary daily choices could turn out to be failures. Excessive risk, however, can be very detrimental as was starkly illustrated by the ...

Introduction to International relations

theories and approaches

Offering unrivalled coverage of classical theories, contemporary approaches, and current issues, together with an exceptionally clear writing style, Introduction to International Relations provides a genuinely accessible and engaging introduction to the subject. With an emphasis on theoretical approaches and their application to the real world ...

Transplante y tráfico de órganos

El presente Claves está subdividido en dos grandes apartados y el que da inicio al mismo, que lleva por título «Trasplante de órganos humanos», intenta sintetizar los aspectos más relevantes de esta materia con una doble finalidad: 1. La primera, de naturaleza eminentemente divulgativa para ...

Tratado del despido

Este Manual ha sido concebido con el propósito doble de ser una guía docente para el alumno y un instrumento útil para el profesional del Derecho. Contribuye, por tanto, un texto para el estudio de quienes se inician o quieren profundizar en el conocimiento de ...

Protocolo jurídico

Texto publicitario/editor (Descripción detallada) El protocolo, conjunto de pautas, la mayoría no escritas, genera armonía en nuestros actos, incluidos los profesionales. Conviene recordar la frase atribuida al político francés Charles-Maurice Talleyrand (1754-1838): Solo los tontos se burlan del protocolo, simplifica la vida. Existen libros ...