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Constitutional & administrative Law

This new edition of Barnett's "Constitutional and Administrative Law" is published against the background of continuing constitutional reform and change. Current reform plans include limiting the powers of the executive and making the executive more accountable. The power to exercise a number of important ...

Il divorzio imperfetto

i giuristi medievali e la separazione dei coniugi

In età medievale l'affermazione del modello cristiano di matrimonio, che instaura un legame sacro e indissolubile tra gli sposi, e l'attribuzione ai tribunali ecclesiastici della competenza giurisdizionale sul coniugio conducono alla scomparsa dell'istituto del divorzio. Non viene meno però l'esigenza di ...

Challenges to Multilateral Trade

the impact of bilateral, preferential and regional agreements

Progress in multilateral negotiations to liberalize trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become more difficult since newer members are generally developing countries with different interests than the United States, the European Union and other industrialized countries. More than 250 free trade agreements (FTAs ...

European Labour Law

This book deals with European labour Law and industrial relations. It covers legislation concerning relations between employers and employees, collective agreements and the case law of the Court of Justice, as well as the structure and strategies of the social actors. The book consists of ...

Chinese Company and Securities Law

investment vehicles, mergers and acqisitions and corporate finance in China

China enjoys the highest level of foreign investment of any country in the world today, and is to all appearances intent on maintaining and even increasing that level. Yet, despite substantial liberalisation pursuant to China's WTO commitments, investment in China remains tightly circumscribed. For ...

Liner Shipping and EU Competition Law

As of October 2008, liner shipping companies lose their privileged status under EU competition law due to withdrawal of the liner conference block exemption, which generously authorized horizontal price-fixing and similar agreements between liner shipping companies. Where the liner consortia block exemption does not apply ...

Valuation for Arbitration

compensation standards, valuation methods and expert evidence

This book provides a clear understanding of the nuts and bolts of valuation approaches for business investments, including market, income and asset-based methods. It reviews tools that arbitrators may employ to reach their final compensation assessment on a principled basis. The book's many practical ...

The medieval origins of the legal profession

cabobists, civilians, and courts

In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities began to impose a ...

Punishment and culture

From the chain gang to the electric chair, the problem of how to deal with criminals has long been debated. What explains this concern with getting punishment right? And why do attitudes toward particular punishments change radically over time? In addressing these questions, Philip Smith ...

The hollow hope

can courts bring about social change?

In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald N. Rosenberg's critics - not to mention his supporters - have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in "The Hollow Hope". With this substantially expanded ...

Social protection in an ageing world

Population ageing is one of the most difficult challenges facing social protection in the advanced welfare states. It also has important implications for middle and low income economies. Increasing longevity has threatened to undermine the financial viability of pension systems, but pension reform is politically ...

Prozeßbetrug als Anerkennungshindernis

Ein Beitrag zur Konkretisierung des ordre public-Vorbehaltes

Die Konkretisierung des ordre public-Vorbehaltes im Anerkennungsrecht bereitet Juristen seit vielen Jahrzehnten Schwierigkeiten. Die vorliegende Untersuchung befaßt sich exemplarisch mit der Frage, inwieweit der Anerkennung einer ausländischen Entscheidung entgegengehalten werden kann, diese Entscheidung sei erschlichen worden. Auf den ersten Blick herrscht weithin Einigkeit darüber, daß ...

Koppelungsgeschäfte im Europäischen und deutschen Wettbewerbsrecht

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den kartellrechtlichen und lauterkeitsrechtlichen Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit Kopplungsgeschäften. Im Bereich des Kartellrechts ist zunächst festzuhalten, dass der Tatbestand des Kopplungsgeschäfts sowohl in Art. 81 EG als auch in Art. 82 EG explizit geregelt ist. Seit der 7. GWB-Novelle, die ...

Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

observers'notes, article by article

Wieder neu: Das grundlegende Werk zum ICC Mit Inkrafttreten des Rom-Statuts des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes am 1. Juli 2002 wurde der ICC in die Lage versetzt, die Präambel des Statuts wirksam zu bekräftigen: »# dass die schwersten Verbrechen, welche die internationale Gemeinschaft als Ganzes berühren, nicht unbestraft ...

Transitional justice from below

grassroots activism and the struggle for change

Although relatively new as a distinct field of study, transitional justice has become rapidly established as a vital field of enquiry. From vaguely exotic origins on the outer edges of political science, the study of 'justice' in times of transition has emerged as a central ...

Oligopoles, collusion tacite et droit communautaire de la concurrence

50 ans après l'entrée en vigueur du Traité de Rome, le droit communautaire de la concurrence paraît avoir trouvé la parade aux parallélismes conscients de comportement en oligopole. En prévenant l'émergence d'oligopoles étroits par application du dispositif ex ante de contrôle des ...

Strategic management

an integrated approach

This leading strategy text presents the complexities of strategic management through up-to-date scholarship and hands-on applications. Highly respected authors Charles Hill and Gareth Jones integrate cutting-edge research on topics including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics through both theory and cases. Based ...

The Monetary policy of the Federal Reserve

a history

Details the evolution of the monetary standard from the start of the Federal Reserve through the end of the Greenspan era. The book places that evolution in the context of the intellectual and political environment of the time. By understanding the fitful process of replacing ...

Fooling some of the people all of the time

a long short story

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn#s hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street ...

Putting our house in order

A guide to social security and health care reform

Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America#s largest entitlement programs#Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid#loom with gathering intensity. Government revenues alone cannot solve the problem, but a solution must be found. In ...