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The Civil Law Effects of MiFID in a Comparative Law Perspective
Tison, Michel - 2010
The European harmonization efforts produced under the European Commission's Financial Services Action Plan in the field of capital market regulation have created an impressive body of investor protection oriented rules. Strikingly, the harmonization directives remain largely silent on the...
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A counterintuitive efficiency divide between common law and civil law : rules and structures of civil procedure in eight developed or newly industrialized countries
Schmiegelow, Henrik - In: Institutional competition between common law and civil …, (pp. 119-182). 2014
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International Comparative Sport Law - The US and EU Systems of Sport Governance : Commercialized v. Socio-Cultural Model Competition and Labor Law
Kaburakis, Anastasios - 2009
The contributions of Foster (2005) and Halgreen (2004) are the latest in a series of debates, discussions, conferences, and academic scholarship on the subject of United States (US) and (or versus) European Union (EU) sport policy. In the context of international relations and foreign policy,...
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The Quandary of Agricultural Biotechnology, Pure Economic Loss, and Non-Adopters : Comparing Australia, Canada, and the United States
Ludlow, Karinne; Smyth, Stuart - 2013
Innovations impact societies in a variety of ways. Successful innovations are utility enhancing, in that they create a higher degree of benefits that offset any of the potential disadvantages of the innovation. Unsuccessful innovations suffer from the reverse, in that they result in more...
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Half-Secret Trusts in Ireland and England
Mee, John - 2019
This note considers the decision of the Irish High Court in Re Prendiville (1992) which dealt with the enforcement of half-secret trusts. It confirms, in a case where the point arose for decision, that Irish law rejects “the prior acceptance rule” favoured in the English cases. The judgment...
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Discerning Why Patients Die : Legal and Political Controversies in Japan, the United States, and Taiwan
Leflar, Robert B - 2015
Japan, the United States, and Taiwan address the discernment process through their respective legal systems. Statistical … systems in Japan and Taiwan, the relative prominence in the 21st century (in terms of physician concern, if not in the … absolute number of cases) of criminal prosecutions of medical personnel in Japan and especially in Taiwan, and legislative …
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Criminal Liability of Corporations : A Comparative Approach to Corporate Criminal Liability in Common Law and Civil Law Countries
Shkira, Elidiana - 2018
Criminal liability of corporations became one of the most debated topics especially following the 1990s, when both the US and Europe faced an alarming number of environmental, antitrust, fraud, worker death, bribery, obstruction of justice, and financial crimes involving corporations. The...
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Canadian Common Law and Civil Law Approaches to Constructive Takings : A Comparative Economic Perspective
Lavoie, Malcolm - 2013
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A Comparative Study of Judicial Review in Common Law and Civil Law Jurisdictions
James, Masunga - 2023
Administrative law has the objective of protecting individuals from the possible abuse that they can encounter from powerful administrative branch of the government. This law also governs the conditions and procedures in which administrative decisions can be reviewed by court. However, judicial...
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