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Regulation and Public Interests
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 37.50Not since the 1960s have U.S. politicians, Republican or Democrat, campaigned on platforms defending big government, much less the use of regulation to help solve social ills. And since the late 1970s, "deregulation" has become perhaps the most ubiquitous political catchword of all. This book takes on the critics of government regulation. Providing... more...
Flag State Responsibility
Springer 2009; US$ 109.99Presents the historical development of tonnage, ship registration, classification societies and national and international law for flag State responsibility, along with the large increase in numbers of non-traditional flag States and classification societies. more...
Medizin und Haftung
Springer 2009; US$ 209.00Juristen, Mediziner, Pharmazeuten und versicherungsrechtlich Interessierte finden in diesem Werk ein Kompendium, das die ganze Bandbreite des Medizin- und Haftungsrechts erfasst. Versicherungsrechtliche Problemstellungen und weitere Grundfragen des Privatrechts sind gleichfalls mit einbezogen. Hochkarätige Autoren aus den Bereichen der Jurisprudenz... more...
Crisis, Complexity and Conflict
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 114.95Many economic issues that touch the life of millions of people are more complex than most people thought. From the U.S financial crisis to regional cooperation, from the oil price shock to climate change, policy conflicts abound. The book distills some of these conflicts and argues that understanding the nature and intensity of trade-offs is a key... more...
The Intersection of International Law, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Infectious Disease
BRILL 2007; US$ 132.00Biotechnology has the potential to revolutionize genetics, agriculture, public health mechanisms, and environmental management and conservation. Agricultural applications provide the most practical uses of advances in biotechnology. more...
When Cooperation Fails
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 27.99The transatlantic dispute over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has brought into conflict the United States and the European Union, two long-time allies and economically interdependent democracies with a long record of successful cooperation. Yet the dispute - pitting a largely acceptant US against an EU deeply suspicious of GMOs - has developed... more...
The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services
BRILL 2007; US$ 382.00Examines how the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) governs international trade in services and its growing impact on the regulatory practice of World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states. This book discusses the major issues confronting WTO member states by analysing the GATS and related international trade issues. more...
Law and Politics in Ocean Governance
BRILL 2005; US$ 126.00Explores how, the commitments based on the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement are acted upon by States in a selection of regional fisheries management regimes. This book reviews three established regional fisheries management regimes and two regional agreements establishing such regimes, negotiated following the 1995 Agreement. more...
Reconciling Environment and Trade
BRILL 2008; US$ 222.00Focuses on five cases, that reflect five basic issues in the clash between trade and the environment: public health, air pollution/ozone depletion, food safety, destruction of endangered species, and biosafety. This work is suitable for those involved in international trade or environmental activism. more...
Places of Refuge for Ships
BRILL 2005; US$ 234.00Written by scholars and practitioners, this book addresses the law, policy and management aspects of the problem of places of refuge for ships in need of assistance. There is a humanitarian custom providing a right to a ship in distress to assistance and protection by coastal authorities, including access to a place of refuge when necessary. more...









