Business Law category: 3875 books
Rethinking Cyberlaw
A New Vision for Internet Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The rapid increase in Internet usage over the past several decades has led to the development of new and essential areas of legislation and legal study. Jacqueline Lipton takes on the thorny question of how to define the field that has come to be known variously as cyberlaw, cyberspace law or internet...
Last Resort
The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair—and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren’t we encouraging them to continue to act...
by Mike Ottley
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment. Each book contains essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and model answers that...
by Richard Wilmot-Smith QC
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The third edition of Wilmot-Smith on Construction Contracts continues to take a clear and practical approach to the law and practice relating to construction contracts in the UK. It provides comprehensive coverage of the substantive law and modern dispute resolution procedures in the field of construction...
Letters of Credit
The Law and Practice of Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This book examines the legal nature and requirements of compliance in letter of credit transactions in Anglo-American jurisdictions, as well as the associated contract choice of law issues. It gives an authoritative exposition of the mechanics of the law on the problem of compliance in the field,...
by Andrew Keay
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This timely work is the first to comprehensively examine directors' responsibilities to creditors in times of financial strife, as well as addressing when these responsibilities arise, and what directors should have to do to ensure that they comply with their obligations.
Keay explores the...
by Vassilis Hatzopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
'Disruptive innovation', 'the fourth industrial revolution', 'one of the ten ideas that will change the world'; the collaborative/sharing economy is shaking existing norms. It poses unprecedented challenges in terms of both material policies and governance in almost all aspects of EU law.
This...
Sovereign Financing and International Law
The UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The regulation of sovereign financing is a highly topical and significant issue, in the light of continuing global financial turmoil. This book assesses the role of international law in sovereign financing, addressing this issue from both legal and economic standpoints. It takes as a starting point...
Obstructive Marketing
Restricting Distribution of Products and Services in the Age of Asymmetric Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In Obstructive Marketing, Maitland Hyslop deals with a very negative kind of activity which embraces activities, legal or otherwise, designed to prevent or restrict the distribution of a product or service, temporarily or permanently, against the wishes of the product manufacturer, service provider...
Regulating the Takeover of Chinese Listed Companies
Divergence from the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive review of the Measures for Administration of Takeover of Chinese Listed Companies (the Chinese takeover law), with emphasis on the differences between the Chinese takeover law and takeover legislation in the UK, the US and Hong Kong. The Chinese M&A market has...
Corporate Friction
How Corporate Law Impedes American Progress and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Corporate law in the United States requires directors to manage firms in the interests of shareholders, which means never sacrificing profits in service of other stakeholders or interests. In this timely, groundbreaking book, David Yosifon argues that this rule of 'shareholder primacy' is logically,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
No area of law and policy is more central to our well-being than housing, yet research on the topic is too often produced in disciplinary or methodological silos that fail to connect to policy on the ground. This pathbreaking book, which features leading scholars from a range of academic fields, cuts...
by Antonette Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Law, Race, and the Constitution in the Obama-Context investigates the United States and the changes or lack of changes that have taken place in interpreting the law as it relates to a newly minted attempt at post-racialism. The text looks at seminal court cases, federal legislation, and the Constitution...
by Hugh Beale, Michael Bridge, Louise Gullifer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Personal property security is an important subject in commercial practice as it is the key to much of the law of banking and sale. This book examines traditional methods of securing debts (such as mortgages, charges and pledges) on property other than land, describing how these are created, how they...