Rethinking foreign investment for sustainable development

lessons from Latin America

After almost twenty-five years of experimenting with the neo-liberal economic reforms collectively known as #Washington Consensus# policies, Latin Americans are starting to re-assess the merits of these policies # at the voting booth. Many newly elected governments are beginning to scrutinize the role of foreign direct ...

Recursos en internet de legislación internacional

guía práctica

Acompaña CD-ROM. El incremento de los negocios jurídicos internacionales y la creciente inmigración han provocado un aumento del tráfico jurídico habitual a todos los niveles y la apertura de nuevos ámbitos de trabajo para los profesionales del Derecho. Notarios, abogados, procuradores, investigadores, Instituciones públicas, etc ...

Property rights and natural resources

The use of private property rights to regulate common pool natural resources is a controversial topic, which must address two critical issues: the allocation of wealth in society and proper conservation and management of limited resources. Given the privatisation of many natural resources within the ...

La matière civile et commerciale, socle d'un code européen de Droit international privé?

Dirs. Marc Fallon, Paul Lagarde, Sylvaine Poillot-Perruzzetto. À partir de l'analyse des règlements Bruxelles I, Rome I et Rome II, l'ouvrage révèle l'émergence, dans la matière civile et commerciale, d'un socle de code européen de droit international privé, entendu comme la ...

The treatment of prisioners under international Law

This is the third edition of the pioneering work that has become the standard text in the field. The first edition was one of the earliest to establish that the newly developing international law of human rights could be set down as any other branch ...

La ley 54/2007 de adopción internacional

un texto para el debate

El 30 de diciembre de 2007 entró en vigor la Ley 54/2007, sobre Adopción Internacional, con el objetivo declarado de facilitar los instrumentos normativos necesarios para que el proceso adoptivo tuviera lugar con las máximas garantías y el respeto a los intereses de los ...

China´s new enterprise bankruptcy Law

context, interpretation and application

Eds. Rebecca Parry, Yongqian Xu, Haizheng Zhang. China has recently entered a significant stage in its economic transition with the promulgation of a new bankruptcy law. The new law introduces a uniform and seemingly sophisticated regime, drawing inspiration from mature insolvency systems. However significant challenges ...

EC regulation of corporate governance

Andrew Johnston examines EC regulation of national corporate governance systems through the lenses of economic theory and reflexive governance. By contrasting the normative demands of the neoclassical 'agency' model with those of the productive coalition model, he shows how their incompatibility required political compromise. Reflexive ...

International trade and the successful intermediary

"International Trade and the Successful Intermediary" reveals how intermediaries can safely and effectively guarantee they are paid commission in lucrative commodity trades. Davide Papa and Lorna Elliott explain how intermediaries should conduct a deal from start to finish, whilst adhering to the laws and rules ...

Contract II

general provisions, delivery of goods, package travel and payment services

Elaborated by Acquis Group. The Acquis Group also known as the European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law pursues the objective of presenting, in a restated form known as the Acquis Principles (ACQP), the large and sometimes incoherent patchwork of existing EC private law

Bilateral and regional trade agreements

commentary and analysis

Eds. Simon Lester, Bryan Mercurio. As the Doha Development Round trade negotiations have stalled, bilateral and regional free trade agreements have become an important alternative. These agreements have proliferated in recent years, and now all of the major trading countries are engaging in serious bilateral ...

EU dumping determinations and WTO law

The application of the antidumping instrument by WTO members is often controversial because of the protectionist character of these measures where inefficient industries are protected from foreign competition. The legal framework within the WTO has loopholes that leave wide discretion to the investigating authorities to ...

Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Comercial Contracts (PICC)

Edited by Stefan Vogenauer and Jan Kleinheisterkamp-------------------------------------- The Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts is written by an international team of distinguished practitioners and academics. They offer an article by article commentary on the Principles to provide an accessible guide to the ...

Free movement of goods and limits of regulatory autonomy in the EU and WTO

In every system aimed at trade liberalisation, it is necessary to balance this goal with the protection of (other) values. Not only does this have economic implications, but it also strikes at the heart of regulatory autonomy, sovereignty, division of power between levels and branches ...

Opening markets for trade in services

countries and sectors in bilateral and WTO negotiations

Eds. Juan A. Marchetti, Martin Roy. Trade in services is an increasingly important part of global trade and, as such, figures prominently in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations. In this volume of essays, academics, negotiators and experts from various international organizations explore the achievements ...

Multilateralizing regionalism

challenges for the global trading system

Eds. Richard Baldwin, Patrick Low. Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated around the world in the past two decades, and now nearly all members of the WTO are party to at least one. Besides tariffs and rules of origin regulating trade in goods, many RTAs ...

Le règlement des différends à l'OMC

Cet ouvrage se propose de présenter de la manière la plus claire et la plus complète possible le nouveau système des règlements des différends de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce, tel qu'il résulte des Accords de Marrakech de 1994 et de la pratique suivie ...

National reports on the transfer of movables in Europe. Vol. 2

England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Cyprus

Eds. Wolfgang Faber, Brigitta Lurger. This is the second volume of a series of national reports on basic issues concerning the acquisition and loss of ownership of movable assets. The series is planned to cover 27 European legal systems, distributed over six volumes. Starting with ...

A handbook on reading WTO goods and services schedules

This is a detailed guide on how to read WTO Schedules of Commitments for Goods and Services. The Schedules are part of the Legal Texts of the WTO Uruguay Round Agreements. They comprise about 27,000 pages of specific commitments by 153 members of the ...

Law of international contracting

The second edition of this well-known survey of the legal aspects of international business contracting has been needed for some time. Over the course of the last decade, a plethora of new concepts and procedures (many catalyzed by growth in the use of information technology ...