Specific performance as the preferred remedy in comparative law and CISG

The thesis uncovers the new international trend that favors specific performance as the preferred remedy for sale of goods, and identifies this trend in the options assumed by CISG. Underlying this trend there is a new paradigm in the field of remedies for the breach ...

Judges on trial

the independence and accountability of the english judiciary

The second edition of Judges on Trial articulates the rules, assumptions and practices which shape the culture of independence of the English judiciary today. Enhanced by interviews with English judges, legal scholars and professionals, it also outlines the factors that shape the modern meaning of ...

El arbitraje

una nueva perspectiva desde el Derecho español y el Derecho francés

La obra El arbitraje: una nueva perspectiva desde el Derecho español y el Derecho francés es resultado de la labor de investigación realizada por profesores universitarios integrantes del Grupo ESECO (Grupo de estudio sobre la solución extrajudicial de conflictos transfronterizos en el ámbito civil y ...

Estudios latinoamericanos sobre concesiones y PPP

El derecho administrativo actual pasa por grandes transformaciones, entre ellas las que atañen a la idea de servicio público; al desplazamientos de las formas de prestación de servicios que incumben al Estado; el desenvolvimiento y expansión de la contractualización y la consensualidad, en relación con ...

Modern treaty Law and practice

This new edition of a textbook first published in 2000 provides a comprehensive account of the law of treaties from the viewpoint of an experienced practitioner. As such, it is the first, and only, book of its kind. Aust provides a wealth of examples of ...

El Derecho inglés y los contratos internacionales

El Derecho inglés sigue siendo el sistema jurídico elegido preferentemente como Derecho aplicable en los contratos internacionales. Los textos internacionales emanados de instituciones como UNIDROIT o la Unión Europea no han conseguido deshancar un protagonismo sin duda asentado en el cosmopolitismo y el liberalismo que ...

Introducción al Derecho japonés actual

El Derecho japonés, un ordenamiento jurídico relativamente moderno que, aunque en su origen tomó como referencia los sistemas de Europa occidental, ha ido adquiriendo su propia idiosincrasia con el paso del tiempo, sigue siendo muy poco conocido en Occidente. Contribuyen a ello las distancias geográficas ...

Trade unions in Western Europe

hard times, hard choices

Trade unions in most of Europe are on the defensive: in recent decades they have lost membership, sometimes drastically; their collective bargaining power has declined, as has their influence on government; and in many countries, their public respect is much diminished. This book explores the ...

What is a fair international society

international Law between development and recognition

Today's world is post-colonial and post-Cold War. These twin characteristics explain why international society is also riddled with the two major forms of injustice which Nancy Fraser identified as afflicting national societies. First, the economic and social disparities between states caused outcry in the ...

Chinese civil Law

China is a major civil law jurisdiction. Since the end of the 1990s great efforts have been made in China to codify the entire civil law. With the major statutes governing contracts, property, torts and conflict of laws promulgated in 1999, 2007, 2009 and 2010 ...

China's legal system

China's struggle for the rule of law is at a critical juncture. As a key element of governance in the PRC today, China's legal system affects not only domestic affairs but also China's engagement with the world. But can a credible legal ...

International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice (in French, the Cour internationale de justice), also commonly known as the World Court or ICJ, is the oldest, most important and most famous judicial arm of the United Nations. Established by the United Nations Charter in 1945 and based ...

Corporate internal investigations

overview of 13 jurisdictions

Corporate Internal Investigations have become more and more important for businesses as a means to minimise business liability risks. These liability risks often result from a managerial failure to observe a particular regulatory code. For international businesses, the obligation upon management to supervise compliance does ...

Competition of legal systems and harmonization of european private Law

new paths in comparative perspective

This volume provides essays on fundamental rights, on European and Italian contract law, and on the lawyer’s role in contemporary society being the result of research carried out from a lawyer’s perspectiv* in recent years. As fundamental rights are the same principles upon ...

Motive matters!

an exploration of the notion 'deliberate breach of contract' and its

This book argues that motives for committing breach of contract should matter in the application of remedies in contract. Deliberate breach of contract requires a different and sterner answer from the law of contract than any other breach of contract, because providing equal remedies for ...

Selected national, european and international Provisions from public and private Law

This volume, The Maastricht Collection, is based on the Maastricht Law Faculty’s expertise in teaching European, international and comparative law. The Maastricht Collection comprises a selection of legal instruments and provisions which have proven to be particularly relevant and useful to students and practitioners ...

The protection of property rights in comparative perspective

a study on the interaction between european human rights Law and italian and french property Law

The book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the issue of property rights protection in Europe. This approach explores the tensions between the European and the national level. This is done by highlighting the different understanding of the constitutional role of property within different ...

Administrative Law in Europe

between common principles and national traditions

n the various European countries, debates on the ransformation of administrative law are held from a national perspective and with different intensity. Given the considerable effects such discussion may have on the methods of administrative legal scholarship, an analysis of these developments in a European ...

Procurement of utilities

Law and practice

Aimed primarily at non-regulatory lawyers this book provides a practical guide to transactions involving utilities and in particular the procurement of goods and services from utilities (rather than by utilities). Focusing on the law of England and Wales, the book covers the regulation of utilities ...

English private Law

Now in its third edition, this work has established itself as a key point of reference on English private law for lawyers in the UK and throughout the world. The book acts as an accessible first point of reference for practitioners approaching a private law ...