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Labour, industrial relations and HRM specialists in Europe and elsewhere will watch with great interest the course of developments growing out of the pending EC directive on information and...

With the collapse of Barings, the expulsion of Daiwa Bank from the United States, the bankruptcy of Orange County, California, and growing Long-Term Capital Management issues, derivatives are...

The taxation of partnerships' income in an international context greatly influences partnerships as to their choice of legal entity. This book analyzes some of the main issues in the taxation of...

Since the first edition of Italian Income Taxes Consolidated Text, was published, there has been a constant out flow of new laws and legislative decrees, within the Italian tax system. Meticulously...

Business crime with a corresponding recourse to criminal law and procedure to redress socially unacceptable business conduct continues to rise in many Western countries. In Italy this trend has taken...

Japanese antitrust law stems from the virtually verbatim adoption of United States antitrust law during the occupation years following World War II. However, distinctive Japanese elements have...

Since the and#8216;lost decadeand#8217; of the nineties, the progress of Japanese administrative and economic reform has been intense. Although some early critics characterized the reforms as...

In all major industrialised countries, copyright law has fundmentally changed in the last 15 years due to the digital age, the TRIPS Agreement and the WIPO Copyright Treaties. Japan is no exception,...

Japanese Patent Law Cases and Comments Edited by Christopher Heath & Atsuhiro Furuta About the Editors: Christopher Heath is a judge at the European Patent Office and former head of the Max Planck...

Competing in Japan has serious potential value. Yet Japanese trademark law is surprisingly understudied. In this unique, comprehensive examination, Professor Port sets out trademark rights in Japan...

The rapid proliferation everywhere of non-standard work arrangements, and the dramatic transformation of labour markets that inevitably follows, raise crucial questions about the future of labour law...

This new study presents a detailed examination of the initial NAFTA experience and evaluates its long-term implications beyond those of ending trade and tariff barriers. NAFTA initiated a procedure...

There are many indications that the twentieth century will be the Asian century', with several countries there approaching rapid and sustained economic development, fuelled by neighbouring investor...

JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL TAXATION : Liber Amicorum in Honour of Peter EssersAuthor: CARLA. DE PIETROPublisher: Kluwer Law InternationalPublication Date: Mar 06, 2024Number of Pages:...

The problem of the law making power of judges and the legitimacy and limits of judicial discretion recur throughout the history of legal thinking. It has been addressed from many angles and seen in...

Judicial Independence: The Contemporary DebateAuthor: Shimon ShetreetPublisher: Kluwer Law InternationalPublication Date: 31229Number of Pages: 720 pagesBinding: LawISBN-10: 9024731828ISBN-13:...

The last decade has seen an evisceration of the once-dominant democratic legal concept of "public interest". Its place is being steadily usurped by a problematic "compensation culture" which, in an...

This book of essays in honour of Lord Slynn of Hadley, former Advocate General and Judge of the European Court of Justice, is thoroughly worthy of its distinguished honorandus . It focuses on the...

Lord Slynn of Hadley is one of the outstanding judges of his time. He has served as a High Court Judge, as an Advocate General and a Judge of the European Court of Justice, and he has been a Lord of...

Forum selection is typically the most crucial issue in a transnational case. Nowhere is this truer than in maritime law, where forum selection is the first and sometimes the only point of engagement...

Jurisdiction to Tax Corporate Income Pursuant to the Presumptive Benefit Principle intends to demonstrate that the profit shifting phenomenon (i.e., the ability of companies to book their profits in...

ICC Dossiers Volume 12 The choice of jurisdiction is one of the most important provisions of a contract. The jurisdiction clause determines the national Court, and its rules of conflict, or the...

Justice And Comparative Law, Anglo-Soviet Perspectives On CriminaAuthor: William E. ButlerPublisher: Kluwer Law InternationalPublication Date: 31747Number of Pages: 246 pagesBinding: LawISBN-10:...

Justice And Efficiency, General Reports And Reports Of DiscussionAuthor: W. WedekindPublisher: Kluwer Law InternationalPublication Date: 32509Number of Pages: 470 pagesBinding: LawISBN-10:...

Like systems and procedures in most areas of modern society, the functioning of courts throughout the world has been enormously affected by information and communication technologies (ICT). It has...

Ever since Korea succumbed to the East Asian economic crisis in 1997, its financial sector has been restructuring itself in accordance with the terms of an IMF bail-out package, in addition to...

This work identifies the continuing structural weaknesses of the Korean banking system, which were thrown into sharp relief by the 1997 financial crisis, and focuses on the need for reform in order...

'The present volume represents a major contribution to the growing literature on international and comparative climate change policy. The product of a research project of the International Bar...

Barack Obama's famous "Blueprint for Change," part and parcel of the campaign that culminated in his historic election as U.S. president in November 2008, openly announced his support for the...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph on Council of Europe not only describes and analyses the legal aspects of labour relations, but also...