From clones to claims

the European Patent Office's case Law on the patentability of biotechnology inventions in comparison to the United States and Japanese practice

This book again attempts to provide an overview of the jurisdiction of the EPO and the USPTO and United States courts. This time, there also is a Japanese co-author who has contributed an overview over Japanese biotech patent practice. The Japanese contribution indicates that the ...

Textbook on immigration and asylum Law

This second edition of Gina Clayton's textbook provides undergraduates with a dynamic analysis of the law and system of control which govern immigration and asylum in the UK. Students are introduced to the subject through its historical and legal context, clarifying who is subject ...

Common law et tradition civiliste

convergence ou concurrence?

Convergence ou concurrence? La globalisation économique, génératrice de compétition entre systèmes juridiques, et l'européanisation du droit, puissant facteur d'harmonisation, invitent à s'interroger sur l'état des relations d'interaction, d'opposition ou d'influence réciproque entre la tradition de common law et ...

El sistema matrimonial de Estados Unidos

El sistema matrimonial de los Estados Unidos de América es complejo y, en general, poco conocido en el ámbito europeo. Está compuesto por cincuenta sistemas diferentes, uno por cada estado, integrados en una peculiar estructura federal. Las particularidades del sistema se ponen de manifiesto, de ...

A comparison of WTO and EC Law

do different treaty objectives and purposes matter for treaty

International Crimes: Theories Practice and Evolution is unique in that it proposes a theory of international criminal law by questioning the law itself. The analysis focuses on particular definitional aspects of international crimes in order to highlight their similarities as well as the defects of ...

The new environmental regulation

This work is an overview of environmental regulation in the United States and a call for a new more effective regulatory model that relies less on top-down intervention and more on collaboration, flexibility, and incentives. Environmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a ...

Le Droit douanier

communautaire et national

Comme dans les six précédentes éditions, l'ouvrage se propose d'exposer méthodiquement l'essentiel des règles douanières auxquelles sont soumis les échanges internationaux de marchandises. L'abondance des réformes engagées, tant au plan international que communautaire et national, rendait nécessaire cette mise à jour ...

An index to common Law festschriften

from the beginning of the genre up to 2005

The German word Festschrift is now the universally accepted term in the academy for a published collection of legal essays written by several authors to honour a distinguished jurist or to mark a significant legal event. The number of Festschriften honouring common lawyers has increased ...

Noruega. El govern local en la cruïlla

Tot i que el govern local a Noruega no apareix esmentat de manera explícita a la constitució nacional, té unes profundes arrels històriques i, en l'època moderna, ha obtingut el reconeixement legal formal en virtut de la legislació adoptada el 1837. Actualment, el govern ...

Energía en España y desafío europeo

seguridad, concentración empresarial, competencia, regulación

Ha venido determinado por dos hechos que tuvieron lugar hace ahora un año: la publicación por Ignacio Pérez Arriaga y su equipo del Libro Blanco sobre el sector eléctrico 1 a finales de julio de 2005 y el lanzamiento de una OPA de Gas Natural ...

International approaches to prostitution

Law and policy in Europe and Asia

What is to be done about prostitution? Is it work or is it violence? Are women involved in prostitution offenders or victims? Is prostitution a private or a political issue? The answers to these questions vary depending on many factors, including where in the world ...

Law in time of crisis

emergency powers in theory and practice

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ensuing 'war on terror' have focused attention on issues that have previously lurked in a dark corner at the edge of the legal universe. This book presents the first systematic and comprehensive attempt by legal scholars ...

Ni un paso atrás

la prohibición de regresividad en materia de derechos sociales

Este volumen está dedicado a explorar el contenido y el alcance de la denominada prohibición de regresividad en materia de derechos económicos, sociales y culturales. La prohibición de regresividad reconoce como fuentes el derecho y la doctrina constitucional de varios países caracterizados por la adopción ...

The moral rights of authors

an international and comparative analysis

This book is a comprehensive guide to the development and utilisation of moral rights across the key jursidictions of the English-speaking world and in France and Germany. In recent years, the copyright statutes of the common law countries have been expanded by the introduction of ...

Canada

Dopo essere rimasto per secoli una folcloristica e gelida colonia britannica, popolata da nostalgici sudditi di Sua Maestà, da ostinati coloni francesi sconfitti e da remote tribù indiane, il Canada nella seconda metà del XX secolo si è trasformato, in pochi decenni, in uno stato ...

En defensa de la naturaleza

En este texto se desarrolla la vinculación existente entre las actividadesde las Fuerzas Armadas, FAs, y el escenario en que realizan estas sus actividades, la Naturaleza en su mas amplio sentido y alcance, considerando en conjunto el medio natural y el creado. Afirma, en su ...

Giudici e Accademia nell'esperienza inglese

storia di un dialogo

Il ruolo della dottrina giuridica è considerato fondamentale nel processo di formazione ed evoluzione del diritto. è attraverso lo studio della dottrina che si possono comprendere a fondo lo stile e il funzionamento di un sistema giuridico; e questo vale anche quando si vogliono misurare ...

Fathers' rights activism and law reform in comparative perspective

Bring together leading international commentators, this book provides a critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women ...

After Enron

improving corporate Law and modernising securities regulation in Europe and the US

At the end of the twentieth century, it was thought by many that the Anglo-American system of corporate governance was performing effectively. Some observers claimed to see an international trend towards convergence around this model, in which firms raise finance on capital markets from dispersed ...

Speech rights in America

the first amendment, democracy and the media

The First Amendment is the principle guarantor of speech rights in the United States, but the court's interpretations of it often privilege the interests of media owners over those of the broader citizenry. In "Speech Rights in America", Laura Stein argues that such rulings ...