Kluwer Law International

Due to the nature of the arbitration process, provisional measures-especially interim protection of rights-tend to play a disproportionate role in international commercial arbitrations. Indeed, the...

Although EU Member States share a tradition of regulating public broadcasting for the public interest, such regulation has been in decline in recent years. It has been challenged by the emergence of...

In the wake of the legality crisis that has affected a number of prominent companies in the last decade, studies have reinforced the growing conviction that the board of directors, as legally...

This volume presents an overview of public environmental law in the European Union and the United States of America. It focusses on constitutional and administrative environmental law but also...

This research examines the growth and expansion of public interest environmental litigation (PIEL) in India and analyses the changes that are influencing the development of PIEL in Bangladesh and...

From modest beginnings in the early 1990's, a reform movement in the regulation of public procurement has mushroomed into a global imperative. Two fundamental values of international free trade...

Public Procurement analyzes the extent to which European Community law harmonizes the national judicial review of the application of Community law in the field of public procurement. Community law is...

The title of this book reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in the legal regulation of public purchasing over the last decade. These changes have two main drivers. The first is the...

Few will deny that public service broadcasting broadcasting that is controlled neither by the state nor by private media corporations is an essential ingredient in modern democracy. But, as a number...

Project finance through publicand#8211;private partnerships (PPP) can offer private investors the security that allows them to fill the huge gap of unmet need left over when sources of public and...

The eighteen essays in this volume concentrate on the issues surrounding workers' participation, the area of industrial relations uppermost in Marco Biagi's thinking at the time of his assassination...

Also available online at www.kluwerlawonline.com Quick Reference to the Trade and Customs Law of China is a highly practical resource helping to ease the complexity of the PRCand#8217;s trade and...

Lawyer, arbitrator, negotiator, author, educator, drafter, rapporteur andndash; for sixty years Pieter Sanders has been in the eye of the storm as during this period arbitration grew into the world's...

The 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards is without a doubt the single most important treaty in the field of international commercial arbitration,...

This book assesses the catalogue of principles included in the ILO Recommendation on Social Protection Floors from a legal perspective. Despite the international community?s recognition of social...

The law relating to recourse is always changing, but the present period is notable for the number of countries whose law has recently undergone, is now undergoing, or is about to undergo extensive...

The clear objective of European law in relation to redundancyand#8212;defined in the consolidated Collective Redundancies Directive (98/59) as and#8216;dismissals effected by an employer for one or...

This book evolved out of a series of fiscal studies prepared by a team from Harvard University of which the author was the director. It analyzes the many constraints and economic characteristics...

The social security systems that, perhaps more than any other governmental programs, have characterized the development of industrial societies are under siege. On the threshold of the twenty-first...

This book discusses current issues affecting the development of banking activities in the Latin American region, together with various perspectives on possible reform. It presents a comparative study...

In this thought-provoking book thirteen outstanding authorities from various EU jurisdictions examine the legal basis of self-regulation and its function in the process of European legal integration,...

In late 20th-century Europe, both national and regional loyalties have retained a surprising strength and topicality, despite the advance of supra-national integration. This volume addresses some...

The increasing importance attached to the economic and social cohesion of the European Union since the 1980s, and the role of competition policy in achieving this objective, has special significance...

'Regulating a Revolution' sheds light on the current regulatory aspects and challenges of small satellite activities. In recent years, small satellites have taken the space industry by storm. Their...

This revised and updated edition of a basic sourcebook and practice guide in EU competition law retains the first edition's significantly broader perspective on EU competition law than most books in...

A complex network of regulatory systems has arisen around the provision of media in Europe. In this connection regulating content is a focal point, as content is not only of economic but of vital...

The complexity of employment arrangements in various countries tends to make it difficult to understand them. Nevertheless, it is important to 'take stock' periodically, particularly from an...

This is the first book to analyze, in a comparative way, the detailed development of the unbundling and open access regimes across three continents. It is the author's contention that these two legal...

Spamand#8212;unsolicited, unwanted commercial communication, especially in bulk formand#8212;is increasingly included in the areas of concern and regulation of governments worldwide. Unfortunately,...

Because of its enormous economic power and susceptibility to corruption, public procurement--the purchase by government of goods and services--has come under increasing regulation as world trade...