Company law

This book will aid understanding and interpretation of the Californian, UK and Australian Modern Slavery Acts, and will provide an in-depth three-way comparative analysis between the three Acts.

A comprehensive overview of the law required to regulate global food value chains and make them more accountable to society.

Recent significant developments in the European space sector have had an impact on business and the growth of national and European commercial space law.

Looking at key questions of how companies are held accountable under private law, this book presents a succinct and accessible framework for analysing and answering corporate attribution problems in private law.

With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing.

When corporations carry on their business in a grossly negligent manner, or take a cavalier approach to risk management, the consequences can be catastrophic.

Virtually all large banks and other financial institutions in the UK and internationally are public limited liability companies whose shares are listed on one or several stock exchanges.

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This volume brings together a broad range of articles on international law and foreign investment which together provide a contemporary overview of the diverse range of issues and perspectives which continue to exercise policy-makers and scholars alike.

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.

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

Information requirements have become a key element of consumer policy at the European level and are also gaining increasing importance in all other areas of private law.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) are the two major international organisations that are involved in the regulation of international communications.

The second supplement provides an update on recent developments in the field of merger control.

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In the new 'knowledge-intensive economies' Intellectual assets increasingly play a key part on balance sheets.

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

This book investigates the key factors shaping corporate governance in China and presents a sophisticated study of corporate governance in China from a comparative and historical perspective.

This text compares the corporate governance structures of the US quoted company and its European equivalent and the role which employees as non-shareholding stakeholders hold within those structures.

An examination of the general principles applicable to takeover bids in the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Responsibly led boards of directors make it possible for modern companies to survive and prosper under conditions of change.

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.

In modern countries, a company is commonly categorized as either public or privately-held, depending on whether securities are publicly traded on the open market, into a government-owned company or private company depending on government ownership, or a financial company or non-financial company depending on its main business, and so on.

Sustainability is, and continues to grow as, a key issue for organizations: in the board room; with investors, customers and regulators; and from employees whose demands on organizations include improving their social and environmental performance in return for loyalty and commitment.

This book analyses the history of the international patent regime and the life science industries, both of which can be traced back to the late 19th century.

The objective of this book is twofold.

This book is a comparative law study exploring the piercing of the corporate veil in Latin America within the context of the Anglo-American method.

This book considers, and offers solutions to, the problems faced by local communities and the environment with respect to global mining.

Are intellectual property rights like other property rights?

Analyses governance structures for international finance, evaluates current regulatory reforms and proposes a new governance system for global financial markets.

As the radical reforms contained in the Enterprise Act 2002 have come fully on-stream, Personal Insolvency Law has become a major focus of attention.

Providing a comprehensive framework for a sustainable governance model, and how to leverage it in competing global markets, Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook presents a readable overview to the political, regulatory, technical, process, and people considerations in complying with an ever more demanding regulatory environment and achievement of good corporate governance.

This title was first published in 2000.

Through a rational reconstruction of orthodox legal principles, and reference to cutting-edge neuro-science, this book reveals some startling truths about the criminal law, its history and the fundamental doctrines that underpin the attribution of criminal fault.

This monograph, which was also designed as a short reference book for specialized undergraduate and graduate courses on EU law, intends to shed light on, and legally frame, the evolution of the doctrine of services of general economic interest (SGEIs).

Effective regulation of consumer credit in modern society is an ever-changing challenge.

With the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) being underfunded and in debt, and with various proposed changes still pending approval, the flood insurance industry has had a strong need for flood coverage in the private market.

For almost every organization in the future, both public and private sector, identity management presents both significant opportunities and risks.

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 title was first published in 2000: The book will be a set of essays addressing various aspects of regulation.

How do we cooperate in social, local, business, and state communities?

Focusing on the consequences of Brexit for aviation law, this book presents the key legal issues for aviation business and administration, as well as all major stakeholders that could potentially be affected by Brexit.

Up to date for the 2023 SQE1 specification, this book enables candidates for SQE1 to develop their knowledge and understanding of Solicitors' Accounts as assessed in the SQE1 exam.

An examination of the general principles applicable to takeover bids in the European Union and the European Economic Area.

A fresh look at the practical benefits of good corporate governance written by experienced practitioners.

This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects - namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors - about good practice for effective community engagement, based on analysis of international standards and expectations, lessons from selected case-studies and innovations in public participation.