This book outlines a critical theory of citizenship, with an emphasis on how citizenship institutes power relations and organises the rights and obligations of those who become its subjects.
In light of the 20th anniversary of the ruling in Francovich, Michael Haba analyzes the principle of Member State Liability, which provides a right to damages whenever EU law is breached by Member States.
In der neueren Debatte um das Wechselverhältnis von Religion und Politik hat Japan bislang keine Rolle gespielt; zu Unrecht, wie der vorliegende Band zeigt.
MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) is a multimedia network technology developed to enable an efficient transport of streaming, packet and control data in an automobile.
Das kriminelle Netzwerk im Gesundheitswesen breitet sich aus: Immer mehr Fälle von Betrug, Bestechung und Korruption bei Ärzten, Apothekern, Physiotherapeuten, Sanitäts- und Krankenhäusern werden bekannt – Schätzungen zufolge bis zu zehntausend pro Jahr.
The book provides an overview of how international law is today constructed through diverse macro and microprocesses that expand its traditional subjects and sources, with the attribution of sovereign capacity and power to the international plane (moving the international toward the national).
This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; in the field of antitrust and unfair competition laws with regard to a number of key countries.
This book provides a comprehensive review of the Measures for Administration of Takeover of Chinese Listed Companies (the Chinese takeover law), with emphasis on the differences between the Chinese takeover law and takeover legislation in the UK, the US and Hong Kong.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
This book gathers the general contributions to the 3rd Thematic Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, which took place from 16 to 18 November 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
This book analyzes the tension between the host state's commitment to provide regulatory stability for foreign investors - which is a tool for attracting FDI and generating economic growth - and its evolving non-economic commitments towards its citizens with regard to environmental protection and social welfare.
The book provides a systematic examination of the legal, fiscal and institutional frameworks for the commercial development of petroleum and solid mineral resources in Africa.
Following events such as the 2008 credit crunch and financial crisis, many sectors of the economy suffered; nevertheless, reinsurance managed to maintain its strong position in the market industry and the global economic arena.
This book provides a clear and thorough account of the process leading up to the revision of the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) one of the four treaties administered by the ITU.
The volume explores the consequences of recent events in global Internet policy and possible ways forward following the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12).
Even though Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a widely accepted concept promoted by different stakeholders, business corporations' internal strategies, known as corporate self-regulation in most of the weak economies, respond poorly to this responsibility.
Acclaimed as the "e;the most objective prosecutors in the world"e;, the German prosecution service has long attracted the attention in the past of comparative law scholars.
Globalisierung der Märkte und rapider technischer Fortschritt machen es, gerade im Bereich der Hochtechnologie, unerlässlich, dass die Produkte verschiedener Marktteilnehmer interoperabel sind.
In short, the 24 selected and representative articles written in English by the author over the past 30-odd years, mainly published in international leading journals and now collected and compiled in this monograph, could be deemed the products of international academic debates.
This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture.
In the past 10 years, the Member States of the European Union (EU) have intensified their exchange of information for the purposes of preventing and combating serious cross-border crime, as manifested in three main aspects.
Human rights are much talked about and much written about, in academic legal literature as well as in political and other social sciences and the general political debate.
This text works to establish essential foundations and guidelines in the current process of providing strategies, mechanisms and resources for mitigating loss and damage from the adverse impacts of climate change and climate variability.
Der europäische Gesetzgeber hat mit der Umsetzung der Verbraucherkreditrichtlinie 2008/48/EG das Informationsmodell als wesentliches Instrument des Verbraucherschutzes im Verbraucherkreditrecht verankert.
Die Gerichtsbarkeit für Immaterialgüterrechte in Europa steht vor Umwälzungen: Patente und Marken, aber auch Sorten, Designs oder in Zukunft allenfalls Urheberrechte stehen vor der Herausforderung der sinkenden Bedeutung territorial isolierter Schutzrechte im Binnenmarkt.
