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Principles of Transnational Civil Procedureby
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 30.00Recognizing the need for a 'universal' set of procedures that would transcend national jurisdictional rules and facilitate the resolution of disputes arising from transnational commercial transactions, ALI and UNIDROIT launched Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure, creating a set of acceptable rules and principles that would be recognised globally. more...
Conflict of Interest and Public Lifeby Christine Trost; Alison L. Gash
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 72.00This volume features a comparative account of ethics in regulations across four Western democracies. more...
Constitutionalizing Economic Globalizationby David Schneiderman
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 38.00Critical examination of the regime governing international economic relations in the realm of foreign investment. more...
Gene Cartelsby L. Palombi
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Explores how patents have been used as an economic protectionist tool, developing and evolving to the point where thousands of patents have been ultimately granted, not over inventions, but over isolated or purified biological materials. This book questions whether the continuing grant of patents can be justified when they are used to suppress. more...
Philosophy of Lawby Raymond Wacks
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 8.95The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? Is it just a set of rules, or something much more than that? And what is its role in society? This Very Short Introduction examines the central questions that have fascinated lawyers and philosophers - and anyone - who ever wondered about law's relation to justice, morality, and democracy. - ;The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? A set of... more...
International Insolvency Lawby Paul Omar
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 134.95International insolvency is a newly-established branch of the study of insolvency that owes much to the phenomenon of cross-border incorporations and conduct of business in more than one jurisdiction. It is largely an offspring of globalization. Paul Omar examines the development of domestic rules dealing with cross-border instances and the many international projects in the field. more...
Piracyby Adrian Johns
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over... more...
Finders Keepers?by Terence Daintith
Earthscan 2010; US$ 59.95Since the beginnings of the oil industry, production activity has been governed by the 'law of capture,' dictating that one owns the oil recovered from one's property even if it has migrated from under neighboring land. This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated by foreign critics as a 'law of the jungle' and identified by American commentators as the root cause of the enormous waste of oil and gas resulting from U.S. production methods in the first half of the 20th century. Yet while in almost every other country the law of capture is today of marginal significance, it continues in full vigour in the United States, with potentially wasteful results. In this richly documented account, Terence Daintith adopts... more...
Governing Disastersby Alberto Alemanno
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00Emergency crises have always tested our ability to organise and swiftly execute a coordinated response. Both natural and unnatural disasters pose new questions to which previous experience provides only limited answers. These challenges are arguably greater than ever, in a more globalised world confronted by a truly transnational hazard. This is the first volume that addresses the complexities of the volcanic ash cloud that overshadowed Europe in April 2011, but has subsequently struck again in Australia, Chile and Europe. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing upon research from economics, law, sociology and other fields, as well as volcanology and leading expertise in jet engineering. Whilst our knowledge base is wide-ranging,... more...
Industrial Subsidies and Friction in World Tradeby Rambod Behboodi
Routledge 1994; US$ 180.00This book offers a comparative analysis of a number of instruments devised to regulate industrial subsidies and lessen the effects of countervailing duties. more...