This Article identifies the drastic differences in implementation and enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention norms. Since its adoption and entry into force in 1999, the international community and parties to the Convention still struggle with combatting foreign bribery. The United...

In recent years, patent protection has extended into new areas, giving rise to serious concern about the lack of clear guidelines for patentability. We analyze the effect of introducing a patent opposition process that would allow patent validity to be challenged directly after a patent is...

In international commercial arbitration, parties that contract with states and state agencies seek to arbitrate disputes, but an increasing problem is the attempt by these state parties to raise the defence of sovereign immunity to challenge the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal or to avoid...

This paper’s goal is to analyze the impact of the UNCAC and the OECD Convention in improving international cooperation in foreign bribery. For the purposes of this study, the U.S. actions will be used as a proxy to determine if the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and the UNCAC were able to...

Main description: Der Band, eine Zusammenfassung der Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb des Wirtschaftspolitischen Ausschusses im Verein für Socialpolitik mit dem Thema »Private und öffentliche Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung«, enthält eine Analyse der Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und...