Company, commercial and competition law: general

What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company?

Comparative Tort Law promotes a 'learning by doing' approach to comparative tort law and comparative methodology.

This, the only book in print to focus on liquidated damages and penalty clauses, analyses the common law jurisdiction to control stipulated damages clauses, and the distinction between enforceable liquidated damages clauses and unenforceable penalty clauses.

While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable risk of stratospheric ozone loss.

Compulsory Purchase and Compensation is the essential guide to this complex and increasingly relevant area of the law.

The principle of legal certainty is of fundamental importance for law and society: it has been vital in stabilising normative expectations and in providing a framework for social interaction, as well as defining the scope of individual freedom and political power.

In today's highly globalized and regulated economy, private and public organizations face myriad complex laws and regulations.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book argues for an intensely humanist engagement with the company and presents a model of company regulation that is compatible with the protection, respect for and fulfilment of human rights.

Das Lehrbuch vermittelt Studierenden aller Ausbildungsstufen das gesamte prüfungsrelevante Wissen über das Handelsrecht einschließlich seiner europarechtlichen und internationalen Bezüge auf dem neuesten Stand von Rechtsprechung und Schrifttum.

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

En Derecho civil se entiende por actos y contratos irregulares aquellos cuya esencia exige un objeto infungible, pero que su autor o partes expresamente y sin propósito de simulación, hacen recaer sobre fungibles.

Describes and analyses the law concerning accessories in tort, contract, equity and statute across common law jurisdictions.

This collection of essays, written by leading commentators from across the common law world, examines a range of topics concerning Equity and Trusts in the commercial context.

This edited volume identifies the various country specific factors that warrant changes in the design and implementation of competition laws.

Written by experienced and innovative projects lawyer Arent van Wassenaer, this book explains what the critical success factors are for construction projects to be completed on time, within everyone's budget, to the right quality, with all stakeholders satisfied and without disputes.

In recent years, innovation has been threatened by the United States legal system.

This book charts the difficulties encountered by vulnerable consumers in their access to justice, through the contributions of prominent authors (academic, practitioners and consultants) in the field of consumer law and access to justice.

An updated guide, and expert analysis on, the legal issues relating to common exemption clauses and unfair terms in legal contracts.

This book examines schemes of arrangement, which are an invaluable tool for reorganising companies'' capital.

This book explores the transnational legal infrastructure for dispute resolution in transnational securities transactions.

Der neue Heidelberger Kommentar zum Geschäftsgeheimnisgesetz und dem bald in Kraft tretenden Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz beleuchtet umfassend alle Fragestellungen, die sich aus dem zwischen beiden Gesetzen entstehenden Spannungsfeld ergeben.

This book critically reviews the recurrent debate on Intellectual Property law and policy in developing countries carried out in the last decade.

Among the most significant legal developments of our time is the emergence of a European private law.

In the past twenty years action in respect of the profits of crime has moved rapidly up the criminal justice agenda.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening across the globe.

If you are buying a company how can you be sure you are buying the business you think you are?

Dieses Fachbuch vermittelt erfolgversprechende Strategien für Investitionen in das zukunftsträchtige Gesundheits- und Pflegewesen der Volksrepublik China.

Can a price ever be too low?

Explains why the current US insider trading regime is inefficient and unjust, and offers a clear path to reform.

Amid the ongoing crisis surrounding the WTO, China's role and behaviour in the multilateral trading system has attracted overwhelming attention.

A little book that is big on information, the Architect's Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference guide on legal issues for architects and architectural students.