Company law

This book explains the concepts of Ethical Business Practice (EBP) and Ethical Business Regulation (EBR), a new paradigm in compliance and enforcement based on behavioural science and ethics.

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests.

This book examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of factors which give rise to instances of 'partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees.

Temporary employment contracts are now commonplace in business.

This book comprehensively covers the interplay between cultural and legal globalization and the impact this has on contract law, with a particular focus on state contracts within the MENA region.

Der Inhalt:Das Skript behandelt die im Pflichtfachstudium relevanten Grundlagen und Prüfungsschwerpunkte des Handels- und des Gesellschaftsrechts.

Shareholder Actions is a comprehensive guide to the possible actions shareholders may be entitled to pursue, onwhichever side of the dispute they might be involved.

Sets out the law for every jurisdiction in which a mechanism for merger control exists.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

Law for Project Managers provides an easily understandable and practical guide to the laws of contract, liability, intellectual property and so on, entirely from the perspective of the project manager.

An innovative textbook setting out a systematic approach to business and human rights.

This new title provides a full analysis of the legislative and regulatory backgroundof community interest companies and is a guide to all six CIC precedents:1.

The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy.

Currently, there exists a distrust of corporate activity in the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis and with increasing recognition of the threats of climate change and global, as well as national, inequalities.

Bringing the book directly in line with the amended CIM Business Law syllabus, the book provides marketing students with a thorough working knowledge of the law on contract, sale of goods, agency, as well as the legal mechanisms for resolving commercial disputes, together with coverage of other selected topics which are of importance to marketeers and business in general.

Of great interest to practitioners, policymakers and academics - as well as to consumers and traders in general - this timely work addresses all important legal and practical issues that arise in connection with online trading.

This book examines the topical issue of governance of financial institutions, covering banks, investment firms, asset management, pension funds and insurance firms.

Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis.

Most legal text books and practitioners' guides focus on the impact of financial services law and regulation as applicable to individual legal entities: the application of such law and regulation on a group basis is often a cursory afterthought, or neglected altogether.

Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account.

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.

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.

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

So long as there are weaknesses that can be exploited for gain, companies, other organizations and private individuals will be taken advantage of.

In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined.

Article 102 TFEU prohibits the abuse of a dominant position as incompatible with the internal market.

This book critically examines the concept of "e;embeddedness"e;: the core concept of an economic sociology of law (ESL).

Africa is playing an increasingly more significant role in the domain of international intellectual property law, and this book underlines the contributions made by African countries as a group to the development of the current international IP system.

An effective system of corporate governance has both internal and external aspects that have to be sufficiently responsive if governance is to succeed.

Innovative textbook that examines core principles of commercial law and the social and political context in which they develop.

This title was first published in 2002.

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.

This book covers the essential principles of both partnership law and the law relating to limited liability partnerships.

Despite considerable work the answer to basic questions such as 'what are our ethics and our moral norms now?

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property.

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.

This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets.

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a key actor in the global investment regime since the 1980s.

A classification and analysis of European Commission decisions adopted pursuant to Articles 81, 82 and 86 of the FEU Treaty.

The Swedish Takeover Code was first published in the 1970s, with the UK City Code serving as a model.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of business law in Russia.

In the past two decades, the General Counsel in many companies has risen in importance, and the GC is now often involved in business strategy from the inception.

This book scrutinizes the new legal nature and stipulations of International Public Works Agreements and provides an in-depth analysis of new forms of infrastructure agreements which have been created in developing countries, such as PPPs.

There has been much discussion in the last ten years about the need to reform the law governing company charge registration, with many bodies including the Department of Trade and Industry and Law Commissions considering the case for reform of this area in the context of a wider scheme of personal property security reform.

This title was first published in 2003: Law changes rapidly.

Modern multinational corporate groups of incredible complexity conducting world enterprises through numerous subsidiaries have rendered traditional corporation law archaic.