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This book is widely regarded as one of the most remarkable achievements in Roman Law and Comparative Law scholarship this century - a fact attested to by the universal acclaim with which it has been received throughout Europe, America, and beyond. As a work of Roman Law scholarship it fusesthe vast volume of 20th century scholarship on the Roman law of obligations into a clear and very readable (and in many ways original) account of the law. As a work of comparative law it traces the transformation of the Roman law of obligations over the centuries into what is now modern German,English and South African law, presenting the reader with a contrast between these legal systems which is unique both in its scope and its depth. As a whole the book is written with a deep understanding of human nature and of many social, economic, and other forces that determine the face of thelaw.
The subjects dealt with in the papers include the relationship between the freedoms in the EC treaty and private international law, financial regulation and supervision of banks, the international insurance market and the Euro in the new member states.
Situating the politics of invention at the intersection of politics, law, and technology, Gispen (U. of Mississippi) describes how it occupied German inventors, industrial scientists, patent experts, business executives, and sometimes even the country's political leaders for the better part of a century. The issue they grappled with, and which he takes up here, is what rights inventors are due in the age of corporate capitalism. He invokes various realms of the computer industry to point out that the issue has not yet been settled. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
The International Corporate 1000 represents a joint venture between Monitor Publishing Com pany of Washington, DC, and Graham & Trotman Limited of London. Monitor Publishing Company is well known as the publisher of The Federal Yellow Book, The Congressional Yellow Book, and The Corporate 1000. Graham & Trotman's annual directories providing data on the major companies in many parts of the world are equally established. The two publishing companies have pooled their expertise in this joint venture to research, compile and publish The International Corporate 1000, A Directory o/Who Runs The World's 1000 Leading Corporations. The directory was designed to help you identify and contact the seni...
This comprehensive book provides a comparative overview of legal institutions that intersect with everyday life: contracts, unilateral legal transactions, torts, negotiorum gestio and unjust enrichment. These institutions form the core of the Law of Obligations, which is examined in this book from the perspective of all major legal traditions including Civil, Common, Islamic and Chinese law.
This book explains why a "global patent" does not exist. It identifies the barriers to its creation from both historical and current perspectives, and discusses the difficulties that arise as inventors, investors, and businesses strive to protect their inventions in the widest territory possible. The author analyzes the options available to patent holders.
Hauptbeschreibung Regulation is one of the intensely debated big issues in developed market economies in general and within the European Economic Area in particular. To which extent regulation is reasonable and legitimate in the context of the European market economy and whether existing regulation is supported by strategies in the European Economic Area is the topic of this volume. Its eight contributions analyse three types of issues: the general role of regulation in the European Economic Area, the assessment of specific areas of European regulation (securities, consumer protection, anti-discrimination, environment protection), and criminal law as a new frontier in European regulation.
Es ist schon faszinierend zu beobachten, wie sich die Wirtschaftsgesellschaft der Gegen wart um das Idol der Innovation schart. Sie gilt als ein Allheilmittel für die Probleme der Marktwirtschaft, die sich seit etwa zwei bis drei Jahrzehnten im Wirtschaftssystem eingenistet haben. Propagiert wird: Mit Kreativität und Innovationsfreude als entscheidende Motoren bekommt man alle Probleme in den Griff. Der Markt wird' s schon richten. Er ist findig und fündig genug, für Fortschritt und Wohlstand zu sorgen - sofern nur der Staat ihm die hierzu nötigen Spielräume garantiert. Falls sich hoheitliche Autoritäten tatsächlich befugt glauben, in Marktprozesse einzugreifen, dann allenfalls zur aktiven Unterstützung der Innovationskräfte, aber keinesfalls als deren Bremser - so die landläufige Meinung. Das .Electronic Money" in Form des Karten- und Netzgeldes zählt zu den jüngsten Vor zeige-Innovationen der Kreditwirtschaft. Das Gebiet des Zahlungsverkehrs bietet eine beson ders saftige Wiese für das Gedeihen kreativer Vorstellungskräfte. Diese können schon sehr bald vom Denkmodell zur innovativen Wirklichkeit werden.
Mit dieser Festschrift wird ein Rechtswissenschaftler besonderen Ranges geehrt. Sie gilt dem hervorragenden Juristen, dem Wissenschaftler, Hochschullehrer und vor allem dem großen Rechtsanwalt K. Peter Mailänder. Die in dieser Festschrift veröffentlichten Beiträge spiegeln die ganze Bandbreite seines Wirkens und seines Werkes wider.