1 Introducing a Layered Global Player -- Part I: Legal Dynamics in the Outer Layer: 2 The Common Foreign and Security Policy -- 3 The Common Security and Defence Policy -- Part II: Legal Dynamics of the Middle Layers: 4 The Common Commercial Policy -- 5 The External Environmental Policy -- 6 The External Human Rights Policy -- 7 The Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Policy -- Part II…
Part I Setting the Scene: Peter-Tobias Stoll, Mega Regionals: Challenges, Opportunities and Research Questions -- Part II Strategic and Structural Issues: Edouard Bourcieu, The Strategic Dimension of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Democratic Legitimacy of the CETA and TTIP Agreements? -- Joost Pauwelyn, Not As Preferential As You May Think: How Me…
Part I: Words of Welcome from All Continents: -- Greeting to the launch of the Yearbook from an African Perspective -- Audit of Soil Governance .-Soils need international governance - A European perspective for the first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy -- North American Soils and World Food -- Soils Governance, an Australian perspective Striving for Land-Soil Sustai…
Megatrends and air transport – An overview -- Global balance of power and aviation -- E-trends and air transport -- Effect of megatrends on airports -- Artificial intelligence and air transport -- Millennials and disruptive innovation -- The internet of everything -- Conclusion.This book discusses megatrends and subsequently applies them to the air transport industry from a legal, ethical and…
1 IP and Debt Finance in Practice (Tadashi SHIMIZU) -- 2 IP and Debt Finance: New Trends (Janis DENONCOURT) -- 3 IP and Debt Finance: Cross-Border Considerations (Toshiyuki KONO & Claire W. CHENG) -- 4 Security Interests in IP and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide (Spyridon BAZINAS) -- 5 A Functional Analysis of Security Interests in IP: Toward an Efficient Use of IP Collateral (Toshiyuki KONO / K…
Idea-expression Dichotomy and Originality requirements for Copyright Protection: An analysis of the jurisprudential underpinnings of the judicial pronouncements in India -- Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Visually Disabled: Putting an End to Global Book Famine -- Jurisprudential Analysis of the Rights of the Users in Copyrighted works -- Database Protection In India…
Sources of Law on Corporate Governance -- Companies under Chinese Law -- Incorporation and Articles of Association -- The Shareholders -- The Legal Representative -- The Board of Directors -- The Board of Supervisors -- The General Manager -- Annual Compliance: Annual Reports and Approval of Financial Statements -- Company Seals -- Particular Nuances of Corporate Governance: State-Owned Compani…
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…