Company law

This book focuses on the federalization of corporate governance in the United States from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

This volume breaks new ground by approaching Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) as an explicitly ethical practice in financial markets.

This book examines the treatment of joint ventures (JVs) in EU Competition Law, and at the same time provides a comparison with US law.

In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco companies.

In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, directly affecting 1.

There are many deep-seated reasons for the current financial turmoil but a key factor has undoubtedly been the serious failings within the corporate governance practices of financial institutions.

Understanding Company Law is a lively introduction to modern company law.

The author introduces the concept of economic woman and makes her visible in duality with and opposition to the exclusive model of economic man.

Hotel Law, Transactions, Management and Franchising presents a practical guide to the issues that face lawyers and industry leaders working in the hospitality field.

This is the first volume in the new Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law Series.

This book analyses the dichotomy between the goal of social inclusion and the effect of social exclusion through over-indebtedness since 2008 in Europe.

The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive is the most important directive in the field of trade practices to have emerged from the EC but it builds upon European activity which has sought to regulate trade practices on both a sectoral and horizontal level.

Modern corporations are key participants in the new globalized economy.

Im Privat- und Unternehmensrecht

ist der Einfluss der europäischen Grundfreiheiten und der Rechtsangleichung allerorten spürbar.

This book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary literature discussing complex adaptive systems - including scholarship from economics, political science, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and religion - to apply general complexity tenets to the institutions, conceptual framework, and theoretical justifications of the copyright system, both in the United States and internationally.

Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective levels.

What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life?

Alastair Hudson's Equity and Trusts is an ideal textbook for undergraduate courses on the law of trusts and equitable remedies.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of US Federal Antitrust and EC Competition Law.

This study provides a fascinating, fresh analysis of the virtues of shareholder participation in the context of contemporary corporate governance.

Electronic Commerce and International Private Law examines the maximization of consumer protection via the consumer's jurisdiction and law.

As the world begins to recover from the global pandemic, companies and individuals are faced with increasing risks and uncertainty.

International insolvency is a newly-established branch of the study of insolvency that owes much to the phenomenon of cross-border incorporations and the conduct of business in more than one jurisdiction.

First published in 1984, this book examines corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry.

With the globalisation of markets, the phenomenon of market failure has also been globalised.

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

The International Trade and Business Law Review publishes leading articles, comments and case notes, as well as book reviews dealing with international trade and business law, arbitration law, foreign law and comparative law.

This book analyses corporate rescue laws, processes and policies prescribed incorporate insolvency or bankruptcy laws, and employment laws of the UK andthe US, with a particular focus on how extant employee rights are treated whena debtor employer initiates corporate insolvency proceedings.

This timely work is the first to comprehensively examine directors' responsibilities to creditors in times of financial strife, as well as addressing when these responsibilities arise, and what directors should have to do to ensure that they comply with their obligations.

This book examines infringements of competition law in public procurement settings, evaluating the latest European Procurement Directive 2014/24/EU to examine to what extent its provisions facilitate or deter collusion during specific award procedures.

A Basic Guide to International Business Law aims to give students an understanding as well as practical knowledge of legal problems arising in the area of international business, and to equip them with the skills needed to prevent and tackle these problems.

For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy.

Structured to reflect the process in practice Beswick and Wine: Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses focuses on the key commercial, tax and legal issues that arise from business sales.

This book deals with the procedure for obtaining a winding-up order chronologically from presentation of a petition through to making the order.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability.

In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens.

The Logic of Innovation examines not merely the supposed problem of the efficacy and relevance of intellectual property, and the nature of innovation and creativity in a digital environment, but also the very circumstances of that inquiry itself.

The principle of solidarity is particularly important now because it is in juxtaposition to some current self-centered trends in politics: the crises that have upset the world in recent years, such as migrations, hegemonic aspirations, pandemics, and wars, have made self-evident the inadequacy of such selfish politics.

This edited collection brings together leading academics in their respective fields to examine the European Union's impact on media and public policy.

This book explores the prospects of a global labour law system.

The book sets out the characteristics and nature of Retention of Title Clauses in the UK and 14 other European countries.

The twelfth edition of this classic textbook provides an overview of communication and media law including the most current legal developments.

The decision of the House of Lords in Salomon v.

Fact: Barings was an excellent company, with professional managers.

Since the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 the role of the company in society, especially the role of publicly traded companies, has acquired a political salience that was largely absent in the decades before the crisis.

In-depth, comparative analyses of German, UK and US company laws, illustrated by leading cases.