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Trust Law in Macao: An Organisational Law Account
Drawing on the experiences of its East Asian forerunners, Macao’s Legislative Assembly introduced the Trust Law of the Macao Special Administrative...
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1927
On 18 March, the third meeting of the Training Agency for Judicial Officials on academic affairs was held in the tutor’s office, in which a...
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The Bail-in Beyond Unpredictability: Creditors’ Incentives and Market Discipline
The market discipline of creditors on the risk-taking behaviour of borrowing banks represents a long-lasting debate. Such a debate gained new...
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Control of Price Related Terms in Standard Form Contracts in Chile: Price Control and the External Intervention of Contracts in Chilean Law
In this chapter we analyse the evolution and current status of the price control regulation in Chile. It should be noted that Chilean law does not...
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Disclosure Rules in Takeovers: Making Sense of Fragmentation in German Law
Disclosure rules serve the acquirer to prepare a formal bid or acquisition and the formation of the price. Financial markets regulators have a range...
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Finding Gain-Based Remedies Under Restitutionary Principles
The previous chapter analyzed gain-based remedies and their availability under Polish law through a compensatory standpoint. This chapter, on the...
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A Legal Cultural “Take” on the Legal System of England and Wales
This chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to several of the key features that serve to distinguish the English and Welsh legal cultures....
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Perpetually Astride Eden’s Boundaries: The Limits to the ‘Limits of Law’ and the Semiotic Inconsistency of ‘Legal Enclosures’
Legal systems can be metaphorically taken as semantic and pragmatic enclosures. The ancient world has given us at least three literary loci that...
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The Principle of Equitable Access in the Age of Mega-Constellations
The principle of equitable access was introduced by the International Telecommunications Union to ensure that every nation, spacefaring or not, would...
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The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros
The European Court of Justice’s landmark decision in Centros was heralded as creating the preconditions for a vibrant market for incorporations in...
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Non-contractual Liability
This chapter deals with non-contractual (tort) liability, which offers an underutilised avenue of judicial enforcement of the MiFID and MiFID II...
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Asset Securitisation in Germany: Risk Transfer or Legal Transformation?
The risks associated with asset securitisations have become the subject of debate since the start of the financial crisis in the summer of 2007....
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Relevant Laws and Other Legal Acts of Russia (Selected Provisions)
According to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, national laws are not within the sources of international law. In the...
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Remedies for Breach of Contract
This chapter embraces all the remedies applicable if there has been a breach of contract. Discussion covers the judicial remedies of debt, damages,...
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Extent of the Protection
The previous chapter dealt with the main issue of personal and material scope. As demonstrated, personal and material scope must be assessed by way...
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Business Succession in Cyprus
Family business is of great importance in Cyprus. The following book chapter will show on the one side the hereditary succession and the institution...
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Codification and the Rise of Modern Civil Law
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the rise of nationalism and the consolidation of royal power in Europe entailed an increased interest in...
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Expert Evidence in Domestic Jurisdictions
Given the hundreds of years of practice and legal thought, procedural devices addressing the issue of quality of expert evidence in international...
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Developments in the Chinese securitisation market
In 2012 China has reignited the pilot securitisation programme. Between 2005 and 2008 the Chinese securitisation market began to develop...