Introduction & Research Agenda -- A General Introduction of Shareholder Litigation: A Comparative Perspective -- General Rules of the Costs and Funding in Shareholder Litigation -- How to Fund Shareholder Litigation: A Comparative Study on Several Funding Ways -- Proposals for Solving Funding Problems with Shareholder Litigation in China -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of Selected Cases.T…
Part I Introduction: Historical Background -- Legal Sources -- Personnel and Agencies -- Basic Concepts -- Area of Implementation.- Part II - The Individual Labour Law: Employment Relationship: The Notion of 'Employment Contract' -- Establishment of the Employment Contract -- Obligations of the Parties Throughout the Employment Contract -- Organization of Work -- The Ending of the Employment…
Part I Obligations arising from contracts: Formation of the contract -- Public promise -- Form of the contract -- Standard terms -- Content of the contract -- Abstract acknowledgement of debt -- Contract interpretation and simulation -- Incomplete contracts -- Revision of the contract (hardship) -- Mistake, fraud and duress -- Unfair exploitation (lesion) -- Agency -- Part II The effect of obli…
The International Criminal Court as the new paradigm to close impunity gaps -- The complimentarity regime of the Rome Statute: An analysis of its components -- National implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Obligations and challenges for states parties -- Domestic prosecutions in Africa under the complementarity regime of the Rome Statute: A practical approach …
Part I – Introduction to the Research: 1. Preliminary issues -- Part II – Audi Alteram Partem in National Criminal Justice. The Perspective of Domestic Law: 2. Participatory Rights in Italian Criminal Justice and the Developments Towards a Contradictoire-based Model of Criminal Proceedings -- 3. Participatory Rights in Brazilian Law and the Requirements of Contradictoire and Full Defence in…
Introduction -- 1. Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: The Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention by National Courts -- 2. Interpretation and application of the New York Convention in Argentina -- 3. Interpretation and application of the New York Convention in Australia -- 4. Interpretation and application of the New York Convention in Austria -- 5. Interp…
The Challenges Presented by the Assessment of Legal Capacity -- Therapeutic Jurisprudence -- Legal Capacity -- Testamentary Capacity -- Substitute Decision-Making -- Capacity Assessment – An International Problem -- Some Proposed Suggestions.This book discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity a…
1. Introduction -- 2. Business Aspects of the Spare Parts Industry -- 3. Design Protection Relating to Component Parts of Complex Products (Spare Parts) in the EU and the U.S. -- 4. Legislative Efforts Relating to Design Law in the Context of Spare Parts -- 5 Jurisprudence Relating to Design Law in the Context of Spare Parts -- 6. Considerations Towards a Compromise -- 7. Future Outlook: The Sp…
Part I – Comparative Case Study: Country Reports: Introduction: Comparing the Criminal Liability of Political Decision Makers on the Basis of a Concrete Case by Frank Zimmermann -- The Case to Be Analysed by Frank Zimmermann -- Belgium by Wendy De Bondt -- Finland by Dan Helenius -- France by Guillaume Chetard -- Germany by Frank Zimmermann -- Greece by Willem Geelhoed -- Norway by Annika Suo…
Introduction -- Political background to PCP adoption – an institutional approach -- The economic rationale for PCP -- The US model of R&D procurement – lessons for PCP -- Placing PCP within the legislative framework -- The realities of public R&D procurement in the EU –trials and tribulations -- Legal barriers and conceptual pitfalls -- Concluding remarks – the case for a EU coordinated…