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Upstream oil and gas

cases, materials and commentary

Oil and gas contracts are shaped by national and international laws that relate to common industry transactions. With standardised contracts being used across different jurisdictions, it is important that these legal principles are properly understood. The increasing scarcity of natural resources makes it more, rather ...

New essays on the normativity of Law

An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty, and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, accordingly, to be regarded as ...

International environmental Law

"International Environmental Law" is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate change, biodiversity loss ...

Financial derivative investments

an introduction to structured products

Structured products are sold to a wide range of retail, high net worth and institutional investors, with over GBP15bn of structured investments sold in the UK in 2009. Based on a non-specialist graduate lecture course given at University College London (UCL), this book provides an ...

Drugs and drug policy

what everyone needs to know

While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or ...

Political parties, business groups, and corruption in developing countries

Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems. It is a root cause of low growth and inequality, and plagues numerous nations throughout the world in varying degrees. In the past, it proved difficult to measure, and the political ...

A liberal theory of international justice

A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual and her ...

Philosophical foundations of language in the Law

This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of ...

Bounded rationality and industrial organization

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment. Yet, in fact, consumers may have inconsistent, context-dependent preferences, or simply not enough brain-power to evaluate and compare complicated products. Thus the standard model of ...

The implementation game

the TRIPS agreement and the global politics of intellectual property reform in developing countries

With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations. In the decade that followed, intellectual property became one of the most contentious topics ...

The Oxford handbook of economic forecasting

This Handbook provides up-to-date coverage of both new developments and well-established fields in the sphere of economic forecasting. The chapters are written by world experts in their respective fields, and provide authoritative yet accessible accounts of the key concepts, subject matter and techniques in a ...

Financial centres and international capital flows in the Nineteenth and Twientieth Centuries

As interest in financial markets intensifies, stimulated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century, this book aims to enrich our understanding of the workings and history of financial centres in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the determinants of their success and failure ...

Treitel on the Law of Contract

Treitel on Contract remains one of the leading student texts on the subject more than 47 years after it first published. Treitel is renowned for its comprehensive, in-depth coverage of all elements of contract law and is a key source of reference. The author provides ...

Régimen del transporte en un entorno económico incierto

La presente publicación, bajo el título de Régimen del transporte en un entorno económico incierto, recoge cerca de cincuenta intervenciones, entre ponencias y comunicaciones, que se produjeron en el IV Congreso Internacional de Transporte, celebrado en Castellón durante los días 26, 27 y 28 de ...

Global perspectives on income taxation Law

In Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Nicola Sartori, and Omri Marian cover basic, corporate and international tax law from a comparative perspective. The book both supplements readings in US tax law courses and serves as a textbook for a comparative tax law ...