Selected Essays on
Current Legal Issues
Edited by David A. Frenkel
and Carsten Gerner-Beuerle
ISBN: 978-960-6672-37-8, 409 pages, Hardback
First published in
2008 by ATINER
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Table
of Contents
List of
Contributors 1
Introduction 5
- David
Part I:
PRIVATE LAW
Intellectual
Property
Intellectual
Property: Who Owns It? 13
- John
T. McDermott
Why the
Law cannot fully protect the Franchisor’s Brand 31
- Thomas
Burns
Business
law
The
Impact of American Lockean Constitutional Theory on
Economic
Markets 49
- Charles
W. “Rocky”
The
European takeover Bid Directive: Does it Really
Exists?
59
- Thomas
Papadopoulos
The
Perils of Privatization: A Review of Recent Cases between
Foreign
Investors and Host States 77
- Bernard
Bishop
.
European
Gates and American Gatekeepers - The Influence
of
the American Gatekeeper Theory on Regulating the European
Financial
Market 89
- Carsten Gerner-Beuerle
The Law and Economics of the European
Investment Fund
Industry and Capital Markets 101
- Armin J. Kammel
Contract
Law
The
Concept of Force Majeure in European Community Law
119
- Justyna Maliszewska-Nienartowicz
The Interpretation
of European Private Law and the Four
Market
Freedoms 131
- Michael
Schillig
The
Influence of Classical Interpretation on the Law of
Guarantees
in the United Arab Emirates 143
- Suhaimi Ab Rahman
Consumer
Protection
Problems
and Legal Measures of Consumer Protection for
Electronic
Commerce in Thailand 159
- Aunya Singsangob
Agency
Law
Agency 169
- Nicholas
L. Georgakopoulos
Conflict
of Laws
Law
Applicable to Intellectual Property Contracts in the
Absence
of Choice of the Parties 179
- Gulenay Rusen
Foreign
Plaintiffs, Forum Non Conveniens, and
Consistency 193
- Andrew
R. Klein
American
and European Approaches to Personal
Jurisdiction
and the Internet 203
- Richard
D. Freer
Part II:
PUBLIC LAW
Criminal
Law and Criminal Justice
Arrest
Clearances for Homicide: National and International
Comparisons 219
- Marc
Riedel
Assessing
Alternative Forms of Localised Justice in
Post-Conflict
Societies - Youth Justice in Northern Ireland
and
- Kerry
Leigh Clamp
Tax
Law
Transfer
Pricing Principles and Economic Development:
The
Taxman and a Changing Europe 247
- Michael
P. Malloy
Human
Rights
The
Application of the ‘Grave Breaches' Regime to
Internal
Armed Conflicts 257
- Pieter
G. Du Toit
Managing
the Implementation of Socio-Economic Rights
as
Conferred by the South African Constitution 267
- Antoinette
Marais
Cultural
Property
Protecting
Newly-Discovered Antiquities: An Economic
Case for
the State Ownership Approach 283
- Peter
T. Wendel
Media
Law
International
Sharing in Radio Frequency Spectrum:
Historic
Review of Regulations 295
- Chun
Hung Lin
Environmental
Law and Land Planning
Sustainable
Development in Europe: The Energy Policy
Dimension
311
- Andrius Šimkus
Hill
Slope Development Law in
the
- Rasyikah Md. Khalid,
Siti Sarah Sulaiman, & Norha
Abu Hanifah
Public
International Law
Modern
Security Threats: Challenging the Accepted
Understandings
of the Right of Self-Defence 341
- Kalliopi Chainoglou
The Law on
Combat Immunity: Does Judicial Sense
Make
Economic Sense? 355
- Rachel
A. Nir
Part
III: GENERAL
History
of Law
The
Classical Greek Tradition in English Law 373
- Klearchos A. Kyriakides
Legal
Education
Law
Schools Addressing the Training needs of
Expert
Witnesses 387
- Penny
Cooper
Can
Successful Lawyers Think in Different Languages?
Incorporating
Critical Strategies that Support Learning
Lawyering Skills for the Practice of Law in a Global
Environment
397
- Katerina
P. Lewinbuk