Commercial law

This book explores the nature of the music industries before and after the digital revolution from the point of view of the consumer, and explores the question of whether there is a role for competition policy intervention in the music industries.

Written by leading construction law practitioners, the Forum on the Construction Law's newly updated textbook Construction Law, Second Edition meets the pressing need for a comprehensive law school textbook.

This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority.

An essential reference work for charity administrators and their professional advisers.

The first in-depth analysis of the independent director in Asia: who they are, what they do and how they are regulated.

This book presents the latest findings relating to behavioral economics and the digital tools applied to contract management.

Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract.

Exploring the role played by cooperation in the law and management of modern, complex contracts, this book contrasts an in-depth review of case law with a large-scale empirical study of the views of commercial actors responsible for the outcomes of these contracts.

The Expert in Litigation and Arbitration provides the complete picture of the role and duties of the expert witness in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, USA, Australia, Hong Kong and China.

Through further technological development and increased globalization, conducting busines abroad has become easier, especially for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).

European Contract Law unification projects have recently advanced from the Draft Common Frame of Reference (2009) to a European Commission proposal for an optional Common European Sales Law (2011) which is to facilitate cross-border marketing.

This collection is the second volume of a two-part study exploring the role of policy and politics in shaping private law.

The first Western-language research monograph detailing significant developments in key areas of consumer law and policy across Southeast Asia.

This book is a collection of original, thought-provoking essays on critical issues in contract, commercial and corporate law.

The Financial Crisis was a cross-sector crisis that fundamentally affected modern society.

This is the second edition of the leading authority on the law of proprietary estoppel, which has been cited by courts across the common law world.

Insurance law is a complex and fast-moving area of law, making it difficult for the law student to grasp.

This book explores how the entire toolbox of intellectual property (IP) protection and management are successfully combined and how firms generate value from IP.

A compelling collection of essays by female scholars examining the relationships between sustainability, corporations and the role of gender.

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of anti-cartel enforcement and investigative procedures in India.

Limitation of liability for maritime claims is a concept of respectable antiquity which is now deeply entrenched in the maritime industry.

This book focuses on contemporary problems related to fraud and risk in commercial law.

Contractual remedies aimed at performance create a well-known rift between common law and civil law traditions, in the one existing in the shadow of damages, whilst in the other regarded as a generally enforceable right following from the contract.

This edited volume explores the question of the lawfulness under international law of economic activities in occupied territories from the perspectives of international law, EU law, and business and human rights.

International Trade Law offers a clear overview of the complexities of an international sale transaction through informed analysis of case law, legislation, and international conventions and rules.

Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive and informative textbook provides readers with an overview of current consumer sales law and equips them with a view of how this fast-changing subject has, and will continue to develop through the inclusion of new reform proposals.

Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago.

Professional Liability: Law and Insurance 2nd Edition has been updated in line with changes in the law.

The Law of Assignment is the leading text on the law relating to intangible property or choses in action.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

This book is intended to be a comprehensive treatise of Guernsey trust law providing answers for practitioners advising on Guernsey trusts and trustees administering them.

Marking the 50th anniversary of modern statutory competition law in Australia, this two-volume set brings together more than 40 leading experts to discuss the most important issues and developments arising under Australian competition law, economics, and policy.

An examination of the relationship between competition and the deregulation and liberalisation of the US and European air transport sectors reveals that the structure of the air transport sector has undergone a number of significant changes.

This collection of essays provides a rich and contemporary discussion of the principle of pacta sunt servanda.

The `corporation' is by far the most successful legal concept of organization among large business firms.

Delay in the Performance of Contractual Obligations remains the leading practitioner work on the subject and includes consideration of variations in practice in different sectors.

This book critically examines how corporate law and governance can be and should be used to promote sustainability in Asia.

This book covers wreck law as an integrated whole, going beyond the question of "e;removal"e; to include issues such as the ownership of wreck and how the law deals with the many commercial law problems arising after ships have been wrecked during the maritime commercial adventure.

The law of secured transactions has seen dramatic changes in the last decade.

When the law of a foreign country is selected or pleaded by a claimant or defendant, a question arises as to whether the issue pertains to substance, in which case it may be resolved by foreign law, or procedure, in which case it will be governed by the law of forum.

The book provides a detailed review of efforts to reform the law on insurance warranties in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, arguing that none of these have been successful.

The frontiers are the future of humanity.

What rights to privacy do we have on the internet, and how can we make them real?

This timely new work provides the most comprehensive coverage of debt restructuring tools available in the UK including analysis of the new restructuring plan under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006 and emerging themes from related precedent case law.

Producers and Consumers in EU E-Commerce Law argues that the European Union is failing adequately to protect consumers' critical interests in the area of e-commerce.

A discussion of the EC Regulation and Directive in all Member States with respect to cross-border mergers (28 countries).

This book provides an accessible introduction to selected new issues in transnational law, and connects them to existing theoretical debates on transnational business regulation.