Cartile categoriei "Drept comercial"

The European Company ('SE') is a legal entity which allows companies active across the single internal market to operate throughout the EU with one set of rules. This book covers the national law in all Member States of the European Economic Area which implemented the legislation between 2005 and 2006.

With the forces of globalization as a backdrop, this casebook develops labor and employment law in the context of the national laws of nine countries important to the global economy - the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, France, China, Japan and India. These national jurisdictions are highlighted by considering international labor standar...

The Iron Rhine Arbitration (or ‘Jzeren Rijn’ as it is known in Dutch) decided, in 2005, a dispute between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Kingdom of the Netherlands concerning the reactivation of the Iron Rhine railway linking the port of Antwerp, Belgium, to the Rhine Basin in Germany across certain parts of Dutch territory. The Arbit...

One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law’s inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its firs...

The adoption by companies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies is routinely characterised as voluntary. But if CSR is self-governance by business, it is self-governance that has received a firm push from external social and market forces, from forces of social accountability. Law is also playing a more significant role than t...

The Rhine Chlorides Arbitration (2004), one of the few international watercourse arbitrations hitherto conducted, decided the dispute between the Netherlands and France concerning the auditing of accounts relating to the reduction of chloride discharges into the Rhine. France was obliged to undertake certain measures under the Additional...

This book examines the electoral rights granted to those who do not have the nationality of the state in which they reside, within the European Union and its Member States. It looks at the rights of EU citizens to vote and stand in European Parliament elections and local elections wherever they live in the EU, and at casesMember States of...