Governance of global financial markets

the Law, the economics, the politics

The recent financial crisis proved that pre-existing arrangements for the governance of global markets were flawed. With reform underway in the USA, the EU and elsewhere, Emilios Avgouleas explores some of the questions associated with building an effective governance system and analyses the evolution of ...

Pueblos y democracia en Derecho internacional

Esta monografía da respuesta a preguntas tan actuales y controvertidas como: ¿qué es un pueblo?, ¿existe un derecho a la democracia?, ¿existe un derecho de secesión de los pueblos respecto del Estado? El autor combina la experiencia práctica al servicio de las Organizaciones Internacionales con ...

Droit du commerce international

Ce manuel de droit du commerce international aborde, du point de vue des entreprises et des opérateurs, les règles qui gouvernent les exportations et les activités sur les marchés. Après avoir analysé l'exercice des libertés économiques au titre de l'accès des opérateurs aux ...

A handbook on the WTO TRIPS agreement

This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, its role in the WTO and its institutional framework and reviews the following areas: general provisions and basic principles; copyright and related rights; trademarks; geographical indications; patents; industrial designs, layout-designs, undisclosed information and ...

Global sales and contract Law

Although the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is one of the most successful international conventions to date, it remains the case that those involved in the international sale of goods must refer to a multitude of laws ...

Transnational commercial Law

international instruments and commentary

Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments. Now in its second edition, this authoritative work brings together the major instruments in this field, dividing them ...

Conflicto interno e internacional en materia hereditaria

Los conflictos de leyes en materia sucesoria, tanto en su dimensión interregional como internacional, encuentran una solución común en el artículo 9.8º del Código civil. No obstante, esta interconexión a nivel interregional e internacional no está exenta de matices, pues la variedad legislativa no ...

EU Private International Law

an ECJ casebook

This book provides an easy access to and an overview of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) pertaining to private international law. The book contains edited extracts from all ECJ decisions of immediate private international law relevance, made ...

The duty to cooperate in international sales

the scope and role of Article 80 CISG

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the scope and role of the exemption clause in Article 80 of the International Sales Convention (CISG). The book accounts for the historical background of Article 80, the relation to other provisions (Article 77 and Article 79 ...

Derecho internacional privado

En esta obra, el autor hace un estudio profundo del tema, comenzando con el objeto del derecho internacional privado, para después hacer un bosquejo tanto de su historia como de sus fuentes, para continuar con el análisis de sus principios generales, el derecho de las ...

The Draft common frame of reference

national and comparative perspectives

The Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) is the result of more than 25 years of academic research on European private law. The final academic version of the DCFR was published in October 2009, and currently the European Commission is undertaking a selection process in ...

Europe and extraterritorial asylum

Increasingly, European and other Western states have sought to control the movement of refugees outside their borders. To do this, states have adopted a variety of measures - including carrier sanctions, interception of migrants at sea, posting of immigration officers in foreign countries and external processing ...

Comercio internacional y los precios de transferencia internacionales

La expansión del comercio entre Estados en las últimas décadas ha puesto de relieve la importancia del tratamiento de los precios de transferencia, especialmente para las Administraciones tributarias de los Estados y las sociedades internacionales. Las empresas con presencia en diferentes Estados han de seguir ...

El Derecho de los contratos en Latinoamérica

(bases para unos principios de derecho de los contratos)

La obra que se presenta constituye una base sólida para avanzar en la elaboración de los Principios Latinoamericanos de Derecho de los Contratos. Algunas líneas merece el origen de este proyecto. Por todos es conocido el efecto que produjo el Informe del Banco Mundial, que ...

Las cartas de patrocinio en los negocios internacionales

estudio jurídico

Las Cartas de Patrocinio constituyen una garantía personal atípica, en la mayoría de los Derechos estatales, que responde a las necesidades de seguridad y versatilidad del tráfico económico internacional y que, por ello, son utilizadas profusamente en el ámbito de los negocios transfronterizos con especial ...

International antitrust litigation

conflict of laws and coordination

The decentralisation of competition law enforcement and the stimulation of private damages actions in the European Union go hand in hand with the increasingly international character of antitrust proceedings. As a consequence, there is an ever-growing need for clear and workable rules to co-ordinate cross-border ...

State liability in investment treaty arbitration

global constitutional and administrative Law in the BIT Generation

Today there are more than 2,500 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) around the world. Most of these investment protection treaties offer foreign investors a direct cause of action to claim damages against host-states before international arbitral tribunals. This procedure, together with the requirement of compensation ...

International antitrust litigation

conflict of laws and coordination

The decentralisation of competition law enforcement and the stimulation of private damages actions in the European Union go hand in hand with the increasingly international character of antitrust proceedings. As a consequence, there is an ever-growing need for clear and workable rules to co-ordinate cross-border ...

El Derecho internacional privado en los tiempos hipermodernos

Para el diseño del trabajo que se desarrolla se han tenido en cuenta diversos factores. El primero, es utilizado para aproximarse al Derecho internacional privado, a saber, una visión a partir de la hipermodernidad; a través, particularmente, de uno de sus rasgos más característicos –la ...

Advanced topics in revenue Law

corporation tax; international and european tax; savings; charities

The last several years have seen fundamental changes to the UK tax system. Nearly the entirety of the UK corporation tax and international tax rules have been rewritten by three new statutes the Corporation Tax Acts 2009 and 2010 and the Taxation (International and Other ...