Public international law: economic and trade

This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the - lestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership.

Seize the benefits of the five-generation workforce.

Brexit represents a momentous event for the European Union, with important implications on the future of Europe.

How the WTO deals with regional trade agreements (RTAs) is conceptually and practically one of the most important questions in international trade law.

This monograph offers a detailed and distinctive analysis of corporate nationality under international investment law, covering the ICSID Convention and the investment treaty framework.

This book explains the law and regulation of global economic governance, focusing especially on international business.

The International Corporate Law Series is dedicated to the publication of scholarly writing on issues in the area of international and comparative corporate law.

This book provides an innovative insight into the regulatory conundrum of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), deploying transnational legal analysis as a methodological framework to explore the most controversial area of risk governance.

National civil justice systems are deeply rooted in national legal cultures and traditions.

Das Wettbewerbsrecht – normiert im Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG) – dient der Regulierung des Wettbewerbs zwischen den Marktteilnehmern und sorgt für fairen Wettbewerb als Fundament der Wirtschaftsordnung.

Foreign investors often sustain injuries during violent situations, such as riots, revolutions, civil wars, and international armed conflicts.

In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe.

Peter Ashford provides a practical guide to the most common feature of international arbitration around the world.

The present book examines both theoretical and practical aspects of the law on indications of geographical origin (IGOs) within the framework of European Union (EU) law, pursuing four distinct yet mutually related aims.

The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

Reports work done thus far to identify improvements to the interpretation of the WTO Agreement based on a project led by the American Law Institute.

This book offers a theory of law and economics focused on change over time and aimed at avoiding systemic risks.

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance.

This book addresses the various sustainability issues that the tourism industry has faced over time like the trend from over-tourism to under-tourism or from tourism in increasingly distant destinations to a new local tourism with new needs.

This book uses empirically-based analytical narratives to shed light on the development of national wine markets throughout the world.

The EEA Agreement extends the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital to the EEA/EFTA States: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Introduces a novel concept of functional international responsibility in international economic law.

The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules.

This handbook offers a detailed explanation of the rules and procedures of the WTO dispute settlement system.

This second volume of highly topical two-volume set "e;The Investment Weapon"e; continues to present pioneering research for the purpose of developing a common analytical foundation and framework for the emerging interdisciplinary research field of investment control.

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

Provides an in-depth assessment of the exhaustion doctrine and explores how its various implementations have shaped international trade issues.

This book addresses current developments concerning the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the part of international courts and tribunals.

This book explores the challenges that international law faces in curtailing human rights violations arising from mineral exploitation.

The EEA Agreement extends the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital to the EEA/EFTA States: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

This insightful book considers the phenomenon of the transformation of enforcement in European economic law while adopting a distinct global perspective.

This book charts the transformative shifts in techniques that seek to deliver collective redress, especially for mass consumer claims in Europe.

The accession of the People's Republic of China to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 significantly transformed the global economy both de facto and de jure.

Essential for students and scholars in politics and law, Pelc provides a comprehensive account of the politics of treaty flexibility.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing.

Innovation has a dark side.

An in-depth analysis of one of the most complex and intriguing legal and sociological phenomena of the contemporary period.

Chalmers' Marine Insurance Act 1906 is far more than a piece of annotated legislation; it includes case law with analysis and puts the decisions made in the individual cases into the context of Act.

This book looks at regulation, policy and implementation of framework agreements, supplier lists and other similar public procurement tools, with a strategic and pragmatic perspective.

This book re-constructs the evolution of the border conflict between Croatia and Slovenia.

Despite ever growing international trade and dispute settlement, a consistent international methodology of uniform private law has yet to be formed.

Increased concentration and rising market power require new rules.

This book centres on the war that raged between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000, a war that caused great loss of life and tremendous devastation.

This third volume in the Springer Studies in Law and Geoeconomics series continues to advance the interdisciplinary field of investment control.

The first issue of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration as one of the fastest developing fields of law in Southeast Europe.

The linkages between WTO rules governing trade and energy security with a certain degree of focus on India are the main subject of this book.

Dem Wirken von Stiftungen kommt europaweit in fast allen Bereichen des gesellschaftlichen Lebens zunehmend Bedeutung zu.

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans.