Title:Race for the WTO director - general job : seven candidates speak
Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The race for Director-General (DG) of the WTO has never attracted so much interest. Indeed, this is the first time ever nine individuals from different parts of the globe, all with extensive experience in the area of trade ...
Title:European competition law annual 2010 : merger control in European and global perspective
Author(s):LOWE, Philip; MARQUIS, MelDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Every year, top-level market regulators, academics and legal and economic practitioners contribute to the Annual Competition Workshop organised at the European University Institute in Florence. The Co-Directors of the ...
Title:Global justice, state duties : the extraterritorial scope of economic, social, and cultural rights in international law
Author(s):LANGFORD, Malcolm; VANDENHOLE, Wouter; SCHEININ, Martin; VAN GENUGTEN, WillemDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The rise of globalization and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks if states possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights ...
Title:Public health in international investment law and arbitration
Author(s):VADI, ValentinaDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Is a State free to adopt measures to protect the public health of its citizens? If so, what are the limits, if any, to such regulatory powers? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the clash between the ...
Title:EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A paradigm for coherence
Author(s):VAN VOOREN, BartDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a recent example of an external EU policy drawn up explicitly with the objective of achieving coherence in the external policies of the EU and its Member States. Positioning the ...
Title:European Food Regulation After Enlargement: Facing the challenges of diversity
Author(s):ZUREK, KarolinaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book presents a critical legal perspective on the current direction of EU food regulation. Analysing three regulatory mechanisms - mutual recognition, scientific risk regulation and standardisation - in the evolution ...
Title:Liberalization of Electricity Markets and Public Service Obligations in the Energy Community
Author(s):KAROVA, RozetaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book presents the first in-depth analysis of the export of the EU electricity acquits, through the imposition of an EU-type regional electricity market (REM) in SEE within the enlargement process. Among other germane ...
Title:Compliance and the Enforcement of EU Law
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:Collected Courses of the Academy of European LawAbstract:The enlargement of the EU has highlighted the challenges of compliance, but it has also helped to suggest new compliance methodologies. The combination of methodologies used by the EU and the differing levels of enforcement ...
Title:The European Court of Justice and the Autonomy of the Member States
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory Programme]Abstract:There is an impressive body of legal literature on the relationship between the European Court of Justice and its various “interlocutors” (EU institutions, national jurisdictions, EU interest groups, multinationals…) and ...
Title:Environmental Integration in the EU's External Relations: Beyond multilateral dimensions
Author(s):MARIN DURAN, Gracia; MORGERA, ElisaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The book examines the integration of environmental protection requirements into EU external relations focusing on unilateral, bilateral and inter-regional instruments, which have been less explored than the multilateral ...
Title:E-Commerce in China and Germany: A Sino-German comparative analysis
Author(s):Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Department of Market Regulation, State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (SAIC); China Society of Administration for Industry & Commerce (CSAIC); METZ, Rainer; MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; SPINDLER, Gerald; HONGFENG, Yang; LEI, Wang; DONGPING, Wu; PURNHAGEN, Kai PeterDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The ways to approach the regulation of e-commerce markets are in the focus of discussion both in China and Germany. While a general need for regulation is undisputed in both countries, the scope, means and aims regulation ...
Title:Trade in Goods: The GATT and the other WTO agreements regulating trade in goods (2nd edition)
Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This new edition of Trade in Goods is an authoritative work on international trade by one of the most influential scholars in the field. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of every WTO agreement dealing with ...
Title:Tecnologie e abilità informatiche per il diritto
Author(s):BIASOTTI, Maria Angela; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il manuale nasce come materiale di studio per gli studenti della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell'Università degli Studi di Pisa che devono conseguire l'idoneità in Elementi di Informatica Giuridica (EIG) e Abilità informatiche ...
Title:The Evolution of EC Consumer Protection in the Field of Consumer Credit
Author(s):LOBOCKA-POGUNTKE, IngaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Using consumer credit regulation as a case study, this book investigates how the specific legislation in this field can be explained by the major streams of economic philosophy. Based on an analysis of the evolution of ...
Title:The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe: Voting to become citizens
Author(s):RODRÍGUEZ-RUIZ, Blanca; RUBIO MARIN, RuthDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Looks at the articulation of women's suffrage rights in the countries that make up the political-unity-in-the-making we call the European Union. This book uncovers the dynamics that were at play in the recognition of male ...