Law As a Social System (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)
By Niklas Luhmann
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Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:512
Publication Date:2004-05-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0198262388
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780198262381
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Product Description:
In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, the leading exponent of systems theory, explores its implications for our understanding of law. The volume provides a rigorous application to law of a theory that offers profound insights into the relationships between law and other aspects of contemporary society, including politics, the economy, the media, education, and religion.
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Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
By Aaron Kupchik
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Publisher:NYU Press
Number Of Pages:209
Publication Date:2007-11-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0814747744
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780814747742
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Product Description:
"An extremely well written book that will make an important and unique contribution."
—Richard E. Redding, co-editor of Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention
"An important book that will make a valuable contribution. Policy makers and students of the criminal justice system would be most wise to consider this book if they wish to understand what it really means to prosecute juveniles as if they were adults."
—Simon Singer, author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform
"This book asks basic questions—what difference does the label we put on the court make in an institution's treatment of young offenders? What sorts of cases and what sorts of kids are transferred from juvenile to criminal court systems? What effects on youth are associated with different types of court? Close observation of two radically different institutional responses to youth crime breaks new ground in this empirical study of legal policy toward young offenders."
—Franklin E. Zimring, author of American Juvenile Justice
By comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal (adult) courts, Aaron Kupchik finds that prosecuting adolescents in criminal court does not fit with our cultural understandings of youthfulness. As a result, adolescents who are transferred to criminal courts are still judged as juveniles. Ultimately, Kupchik makes a compelling argument for the suitability of juvenile courts in treating adolescents. Judging Juveniles suggests that justice would be better served if adolescents were handled by the system designed to address their special needs.
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Between the Rule of Power and the Power of Rule
(International Relations Studies Series)
By Staden, A.
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Publisher:MNP
Number Of Pages:252
Publication Date:2007-05-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004157034
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004157033
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Product Description:
The book discusses different models of world order, traditional and modern. Any practical application of the concept at issue will be affected by the prevailing power structure, and to some degree, reflect it. The reality of American preeminence in the world today needs to be reconciled with the demand for international legitimacy.
CONTENTS
Foreword ..................................................................................... vii
List of Abbreviations .................................................................. ix
Chapter One Introduction: setting the stage .......................... 1
Chapter Two International or world order? The balance
between stability and justice ................................................... 15
Chapter Three Universalism and Regionalism: competition
or concurrence? ...................................................................... 39
Chapter Four Models of international order: from utopia to
reality ....................................................................................... 61
Chapter Five World order and the global distribution of
power: the balance between legitimacy and effectiveness ..... 101
Chapter Six An agenda for a world order: from national
security to human security ..................................................... 135
Chapter Seven International order “writ-small”: the role of
the European Union ............................................................... 171
Conclusion .................................................................................. 213
Bibliography ................................................................................ 229
Index ........................................................................................... 243
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Foreign Investment, Human Rights and the Environment
By Puvimanasinghe, S.F.
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Publisher:BRILL
Number Of Pages:284
Publication Date:2007-05-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004156860
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004156869
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Events like the Bhopal disaster, the sale of products harmful to human health and safety, and child labour, especially in resource-scarce settings, raise fundamental issues of human dignity and ecological integrity. From a legal perspective, and in the context of Foreign Direct Investment by Transnational Corporations in developing countries, they highlight the lacuna of a holistic international legal framework and its implementation. This book embodies a critique of the complex web of public international law principles on economics, human rights and the environment, and their convergence or lack thereof, related regional (South Asian) and domestic (Sri Lankan) legal arrangements, interventions of states and non-state actors towards just, equitable and sustainable development. It is a quest for a middle path in the multidisciplinary landscape of international law, development and North-South power dynamics; globalization of free trade and investment and of social and environmental interests; and salient aspects of the philosophical, socio-economic and legal fabric of South Asia, viewed against the evolving, controversial and elastic sphere of international relations and law where consensus has hitherto been an elusive dream.
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Aviation Law for Pilots, Tenth Edition
By R. B. Underdown, Tony Palmer
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Publisher:Blackwell Publishing
Number Of Pages:240
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0632053356
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780632053353
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Product Description:
Aviation law, with its associated flight rules and procedures, has always been a difficult subject for students and this well established text has provided an authoritative guide to the subject.
With the gradual introduction of the new Joint Airworthiness Requirements Flight Crew Licensing (JAR-FCL) syllabuses, this book should prove a useful source of the basic aviation law information, dealing as it does with the present UK law and the variations being introduced with the new JAR related legislation. The book should be more than adequate for the present UK examinations and should form a useful starting point for understanding the new legislation. For those concerned with operating or flying aircraft and needing a quick answer to what the latest law is requiring, it should prove an invaluable reference book which can easily be accessed by using the extensive index.
The opportunity has been taken to simplify presentation of information, with more checklists to aid revision work. Tests are included which are cross referenced to the pages containing the relevant text.
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Cancer and the Law: A Medical Negligence Guide
By Jonathan Waxman, Daniel Simons
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Publisher:Blackwell Science
Number Of Pages:216
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0632048522
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780632048526
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Product Description:
Litigation following late or inaccurate diagnosis of cancer has increased considerably in the last few years, and lawyers need to understand the medical background in fairly simple terms. This book covers all the important malignancies, providing a brief epidemiology and explaining the symptoms and how they are diagnosed, and the treatment. It features a number of case studies and reviews case law in the area.
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Presidential Secrecy and the Law
By Robert M. Pallitto, William G. Weaver
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Publisher:The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Pages:280
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0801885825
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780801885822
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Product Description:
As seen on The Daily Show, July 24
State secrets, warrantless investigations and wiretaps, signing statements, executive privilege -- the executive branch wields many tools for secrecy. Since the middle of the twentieth century, presidents have used myriad tactics to expand and maintain a level of executive branch power unprecedented in this nation's history.
Most people believe that some degree of governmental secrecy is necessary. But how much is too much? At what point does withholding information from Congress, the courts, and citizens abuse the public trust? How does the nation reclaim rights that have been controlled by one branch of government?
With Presidential Secrecy and the Law, Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver attempt to answer these questions by examining the history of executive branch efforts to consolidate power through information control. They find the nation's democracy damaged and its Constitution corrupted by staunch information suppression, a process accelerated when "black sites," "enemy combatants," and "ghost detainees" were added to the vernacular following the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.
Tracing the current constitutional dilemma from the days of the imperial presidency to the unitary executive embraced by the administration of George W. Bush, Pallitto and Weaver reveal an alarming erosion of the balance of power. Presidential Secrecy and the Law will be the standard in presidential powers studies for years to come.
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Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 2005-2006
(Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law)
By Eugene Cotran, Martin Lau, Victor Kattan
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(December 15, 2007)
Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers
Number Of Pages:621
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004160418
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004160415
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Product Description:
"The latest volume includes: 7 insightful essays on the Palestinian right of return, ' the Lockerbie trial, the Islamic law principle of just exchange, ' and special issues in Ismaili, Saudi, and UAE law, 7 country-by-country surveys, by resident practitioners, of recent legal and related developments in twenty countries, 7 the draft Declaration, in full text, of the World Conference Against Racism, 7 case summaries and book reviews "
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Access to Environmental Justice: A Comparative Study
(London-Leiden Series on Law, Administration and Development)
By Harding, A. (ed.)
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(October 30, 2007)
Publisher:BRILL
Number Of Pages:380
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004157832
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004157835
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Product Description:
Although it is commonly asserted that enhanced citizen participation results in better environmental policy and improved enforcement of environmental standards, this hypothesis has rarely been subject to testing on a comparative basis. The contributors to this book set out to study the extent to which citizens can and do exert influence over their urban environments through the legal (and extra-legal) 'gateways' in eleven countries spanning several continents as well as different climates, levels and type of economic development, and national legal and constitutional systems, as well as exhibiting a different set of environmental problems. One interviewee questioned about access to environmental justice, dryly remarked that in his city there was no environment, no justice and no access to either. Yet this view, as will be seen, requires to be nuanced. While few people will be surprised by the finding that legal gateways to environmental justice are largely ineffective, the reasons for this are revealing; but also the richness of detail and the comparisons between the different countries, and also the positive aspects which surfaced in several instances, were indeed both encouraging and sometimes surprising. This book presents the first comparative survey of access to environmental justice, and will be of considerable use to lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars who are concerned with the environmental issues which so profoundly affect and afflict our habitat and conditions of social justice throughout the world.
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Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial
By Gregory M. Matoesian
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Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:280
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195123301
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195123302
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Product Description:
In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology and social theory to show how language practices shape--and are shaped by--culture and the law, particularly in the social construction of rape as a legal fact. This analysis examines linguistic strategies from both defense and prosecutorial viewpoints, and how they relate to issues of gender, sexual identity, and power.
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Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory (The Lamar Series in Western History)
By Christian W. McMillen
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Publisher:Yale University Press
Number Of Pages:304
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0300114605
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780300114607
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Product Description:
In 1941, after decades of struggling to hold on to the remainder of their aboriginal home, the Hualapai Indians finally took their case to the Supreme Court—and won. The Hualapai case was the culminating event in a legal and intellectual revolution that transformed Indian law and ushered in a new way of writing Indian history that provided legal grounds for native land claims. But Making Indian Law is about more than a legal decision. It’s the story of Hualapai activists, and eventually sympathetic lawyers, who challenged both the Santa Fe Railroad and the U.S. government to a courtroom showdown over the meaning of Indian property rights—and the Indian past.
At the heart of the Hualapai campaign to save the reservation was documenting the history of Hualapai land use. Making Indian Law showcases the central role that the Hualapai and their lawyers played in formulating new understandings of native people, their property, and their past. To this day, the impact of the Hualapai decision is felt wherever and whenever indigenous land claims are litigated throughout the world.
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Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
by Larry Sullivan & Marie Simonetti Rosen
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Hardcover: 1736 pages
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (December 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761926496
ISBN-13: 978-0761926498
File format: PDF
File size: 19 MB
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Book Description :
This three-volume Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and international stages. This work is a unique reference source that provides readers with informed discussions on the practice and theory of policing in an historical and contemporary framework. The volumes treat subjects that are particular to the area of state and local, federal and national, and international policing. Many of the themes and issues of policing cut across disciplinary borders, however, and several entries provide comparative information that places the subject in context.
Key Features
• Three volumes cover state and local, federal, and international law enforcement
• More than 250 contributors composed over 400 essays on all facets of law enforcement
• An editorial board made up of the leading scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the field of law enforcement
• Descriptions of United States Federal Agency law enforcement components
• Comprehensive and inclusive coverage, exploring concepts and social and legal patterns within the larger topical concern
• Global, multidisciplinary analysis
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Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe (CPS Books)
By Mieke Verloo
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Publisher:Central European University Press
Number Of Pages:309
Publication Date:2008-01-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9639776084
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789639776081
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Product Description:
This CEU Center for Policy Studies (CPS) book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of this diversity it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and debates over gender equality are located. The contextual locations where the analyzed debates take place include the European Union and Austria, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain. In the discussion of the different ways of framing gender equality, each chapter provides insights into the ongoing theoretical and political debate about "what is gender equality?", disclosing the visions, debates, and contexts that move around and contribute to shape such a complex and contested concept.
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Trust On Trial: How The Microsoft Case Is Reframing The Rules Of Competition
By Richard B. Mckenzie
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Publisher:Basic Books
Number Of Pages:336
Publication Date:2001-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0738204811
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780738204819
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Product Description:
An incisive argument proving that current rules of business competition are rendered obsolete by the dynamics of information-age companies.
Trust on Trial, a hard-hitting examination of competition in the modern marketplace, tackles the monopoly issue head-on. Through the lens of the Microsoft case, the first large-scale antitrust proceedings of the digital age, it challenges the efficacy of modern antitrust enforcement. While testing the appropriateness of new economic assumptions-from network effects to lock-ins-it forces us to ask whether nineteenth-century antitrust law, combined with twentieth-century enforcement norms, is applicable to the twenty-first-century problems of business organizations.
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Yearbook International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Volume 9 (2005)
By International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
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Publisher:Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Number Of Pages:252
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004155899
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004155893
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Product Description:
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an independent judicial body established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of the Convention. The Tribunal is open to States Parties to the Convention. It is also open to entities other than States Parties (States and international organizations non-parties to the Convention and natural or juridical persons) in cases provided for in the Convention or other agreements conferring jurisdiction on the Tribunal.
The Yearbook will give lawyers, scholars, students as well as the general public easy access to information about the jurisdiction, procedure and organization of the Tribunal and also about its composition and activities in 2005. The Yearbook is prepared by the Registry of the Tribunal. It is also available in French (Annuaire 2005).
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Efficiency Instead of Justice?: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law (Law and Philosophy Library)
By Klaus Mathis
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Publisher:Springer
Number Of Pages:236
Publication Date:2009-04-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1402097972
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781402097973
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Product Description:
Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. This would maximize economic efficiency and social wealth.
In this work, the lawyer and economist Klaus Mathis critically appraises Posner’s normative justification of the efficiency paradigm from the perspective of the philosophy of law. Posner acknowledges the influences of Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, whom he views as the founders of normative economics. He subscribes to Smith’s faith in the market as an ideal allocation model, and to Bentham’s ethical consequentialism. Finally, aligning himself with John Rawls’s contract theory, he seeks to legitimize his concept of wealth maximization with a consensus theory approach.
In his interdisciplinary study, the author points out the possibilities as well as the limits of economic analysis of law. It provides a method of analysing the law which, while very helpful, is also rather specific. The efficiency arguments therefore need to be incorporated into a process for resolving value conflicts. In a democracy this must take place within the political decision-making process. In this clearly written work, Klaus Mathis succeeds in making even non-economists more aware of the economic aspects of the law.
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Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment
By Michael A. Mello
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Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
Number Of Pages:416
Publication Date:1997-11-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0299153401
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780299153403
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After fourteen years as a death row lawyer in Florida, Michael Mello has seen enough. Dead Wrong is a candid and compelling account of his decision to withdraw from the the machinery of deaththe American capital punishment system. Telling stories of cases he worked onincluding those of confessed serial killer Ted Bundy and of Crazy Joe Spaziano, wrongly convicted but still on death row after twenty yearsMello provides an inside view of death row lawyering as no one has done before. He describes how he and others fought to make the post-conviction system work, ensuring inmates the right to a fair appeal. Alternately impassioned, angry, and haunted by the victims, crimes, and criminals, Mello draws us into the legal maze of appeals, death warrants, stays of execution, and executions. Though Mello is unflinching in his recognition of the brutal realities of capital crimes, his book is a powerful indictment of the death penalty. He is appalled at the lack of vigilance in a system that routinely punishes guilty and innocent alike. And, in Florida, he saw the states death penalty cost to taxpayers rise to an estimated average $3.2 million per executionsix times the average cost of life imprisonment. Mello condemns the death penalty as a grotesque waste, one that dishonors victims and their families, exacts formidable costs from government and citizens alike, plays into political agendas, and undermines the American justice system. Should lawyers of conscience, Mello asks, participate in a system that is dead wrong? Though more prisoners are on death row now than ever before, Mello has made his decision to conscientiously withdraw from this system, and offers compelling reasons for the rest of us to do the same.
The real death penalty enterprise is a Rube Goldberg contraption kept clanking perpetually by the fuel of caffeinated lawyers and their cousins the poll-driven politicians. Michael Mello is a witness from inside the machine.from the Foreword by David Von Drehle, author of Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Death Row
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Human Rights (Key Ideas)
By Antho Woodiwiss
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Publisher:Routledge
Number Of Pages:174
Publication Date:2005-05-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415360692
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415360692
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Product Description:
Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work in classical social theory, and combining it with ideas derived from Barrington Moore, Norbert Elias, and Michel Foucault, Woodiwiss he explains how and why rights discourse developed in the distinctive ways it did in four key sites: the United States, Britain, Japan, and the UN. On this basis he provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of international human rights discourse.
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Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy
By Glenn Reynolds, Robert Merges
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Publisher:Westview Press
Number Of Pages:464
Publication Date:1998-09-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0813366801
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780813366807
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Product Description:
This second edition takes account of the important changes that have swept the field since the end of the Cold War, including the rapid growth and change in commercial space-launch services, increasingly important issues of international trade in space-related goods and services, the expansion of space-based communications services, and the move to rethink-and perhaps rewrite-the Moon Treaty. Charting the legal and political outlines of the last frontier, the volume offers extensive excerpts from major works in the field of space law to provide a sense of the many different interests and schools of thought that are shaping space policy.
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Competition Law and Regional Economic Integration: An Analysis of the Soutern Mediterranean Countries
By Damien Geradin
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Publisher:World Bank
Number Of Pages:106
Publication Date:2004-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0821358928
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780821358924
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Product Description:
Competition Law and Regional Economic Integration is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank’s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.
This study argues that adoption and strengthening of a competition law regime is a key component of the regulatory reforms in the Mediterranean region. It also argues that the competition rules inserted in the Association Agreements signed between the European Union (EU) and the Mediterranean Partners (MPs) currently do not provide adequate protection against anti-competitive practices affecting trade between these blocks. The competition law regimes adopted by the MPs are generally poorly enforced with the consequence that many domestic anti-competitive practices remain unchallenged.
Competition authorities in the MPs should develop a realistic enforcement agenda and ensure that the limited resources of these authorities are used in the most effective manner possible. In addition, this study addresses the issue of regulatory convergence between the EU and the MPs in the field of competition law, that is whether the MPs should align their competition rules with European Community competition rules. It argues that while such convergence would bring a series of benefits to both the EU and the MPs, it would also involve costs. The study thus argues in favor of a prudent approach whereby the transposition of EC competition rules would be based on the local circumstances of each country. In its final part, this study proposes a series of steps that could be taken by the European Union and its Mediterranean Partners to strengthen competition policy in the region, including proposals for technical assistance in the field of competition.
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