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This large-scale comparative study analyses the two principal mechanisms employed in modern legal systems to deal with the social problem of occupational illness and injury, namely, employers' liability and workers' compensation.

In 2008 the Supreme People's Court (SPC) has promulgated the "e;Regulations on the Cause of Civil Action"e;.

This book analyzes the conflict that emerges between parties after a breach of contract and how different legal remedies can best reduce conflict.

This book discusses the intensification of international transport services as the consequence of an increasingly capillary economic integration.

This book is the first book focusing on the Chinese law of unjust enrichment in English and introducing it to Western jurisdictions.

This book describes how governments formulate policies, draft legislation, and manage stocks of legislation and how approaches to these tasks are converging.

This Palgrave Pivot provides a conceptual and practical discussion of the factors that comprise a standard economic damage model in an employment termination case.

The book analyzes the most relevant developments in the relation between contracts and technology, from automatically concluded contracts to today's revolutionary "e;smart contracts"e; developed through blockchain, which are beginning to and will increasingly disrupt many economic and social relations.

This book offers a window into the mechanisms that drive events when countries with poor track records in environmental protection and low administrative capacity, join an organisation with ambitious environmental regulatory regimes, which include some of the highest environmental protections standards in the world.

The proliferation of pipelines to transport oil and natural gas represents a major area of contestation in the landscape of energy development.

This book discusses civil litigation at the supreme courts of nine jurisdictions - Argentina, Austria, Croatia, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States - and focuses on the available instruments used to keep the caseload of these courts within acceptable limits.

"e;Efficient breach"e; is one of the most discussed topics in the literature of law and economics.

This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA).

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology.

The book discusses sustainability and law in a multifaceted way.

This book focuses on the tactics and strategies used in business-to-business contract negotiations.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the function of certification in general and of certification systems in a range of different sectors.

Extrait : "Toutes les questions qui concernent les étrangers, ont pris de nos jours, par l'effet des circonstances, une importance considérable.

El derecho a la satisfacción del crédito tiene un carácter relativo y debe considerar el interés del deudor, principal- mente en razón de la finalidad social que subyace al contrato de mutuo y al principio de solidaridad.

This is the first work to concentrate solely on damages for breach of contract and provides the most comprehensive and detailed treatment of the subject to date.

Accessory liability in the private law is of great importance.

Accessory liability in the private law is of great importance.

In recent years a strand of thinking has developed in private law scholarship which has come to be known as 'rights' or 'rights-based' analysis.

The chapters in this volume arise from a conference held at the University of Aberdeen concerning the law of causation in the UK, Commonwealth countries, France and the USA.

There remains an urgent need for a deeper discussion of the theoretical, political and federal dimensions of the European codification project.

There remains an urgent need for a deeper discussion of the theoretical, political and federal dimensions of the European codification project.

In recent years a strand of thinking has developed in private law scholarship which has come to be known as 'rights' or 'rights-based' analysis.