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The Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00Biotechnology has prompted a revolution in science and society in the truest sense of the word. For what superficially appears to be a revolution in biotechnology, in effect touches upon the fundamentals of life and the way in which humans relate to it. This book will make a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the effective regulation... more...
Basic Legal Instruments for the Liberalisation of Trade
Hart Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 156.60The interpretation and application of the rules of international and regional trade is becoming an increasingly specialised field. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the core legal concepts characterising the two most prominent and successful efforts in the regulation of international trade to date. more...
International Trade and Economic Law and the European Union
Hart Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 68.40This timely book explores the developing nature of international trade law,with particular emphasis on World Trade Organization law and its effects within the European Union. In the aftermath of the Seattle upheaval, vital questions are being raised as to the future course of global economic law; its overall legitimacy, implications for democracy,... more...
Regional and Global Regulation of International Trade
Hart Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 120.60The processes of legal and economic integration at a regional and global scale have created powerful legal and economic dilemmas. They challenge the paradigms of constitutionalism,including the State?s monopoly of constitutionalism, the autonomy of national political communities and the traditional forms of participation and representation. The phenomena... more...
Nanotechnology Regulation and Policy Worldwide
Artech House 2006; US$ 89.00The emerging commercial application of nanotechnoloy involves devices, processes, and materials that are manipulated at the atomic and molecular level. This first-of-its-kind resource identifies and describes the legal and policy initiatives aimed at encouraging or restricting nanotech research and applications. The book offers an up-to-date understanding... more...
Uncertain Causation in Medical Liability
Hart Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 113.40'Proving' the cause of the plaintiff's injury in personal injury litigation often entails significant challenges, particularly when science cannot identify the cause of a biological phenomenon or when the nature of this cause is debatable. This problem is frequently encountered in medical malpractice cases, where the limitations of scientific knowledge... more...
People, Plants, and Patents
International Development Research Centre 1994; US$ 25.00The recent GATT agreement and the Biodiversity Convention have moved intellectual property rights to the centre of South-North relations. Decisions about intellectual property, particularly for plant life,have major implications for food security, agriculture, rural development,and the environment for every country in the South and the North. For the... more...
Seeding Solutions, Volume 1
International Development Research Centre 2000; US$ 35.00Volume 1 offers policymakers a clear description of the facts, the fights, and the fora relevant to the ownership, conservation, and exchange of genetic resources. Readers new to these issues will learn from this book why germplasm is important and how it relates to trade negotiations, intellectual property disputes, and food and health security, both... more...
Legal Norms and Normativity
Hart Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 72.00This book offers a 'genealogical' explanation of law's normativity. The term 'genealogical' conveys a commitment to a non-metaphysical type of enquiry. While it explains how law, as a normative phenomenon, comes about, it does not seek to ground law's normativity in anything but the context of social interaction giving rise to it. Legal normativity... more...
The Political Economy of Antitrust
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 160.00Motivated by recent events and experiences in antitrust enforcement and policy in the United States and the European Union, and new insights and findings from academic research, this book presents a collection of theoretical, empirical and public policy-oriented articles representing recent research on the political-economy of antitrust. Political-economy... more...









