Post-War conceptions of human rights have evolved independently of long-established theory and practice of property and creditor rights, to the detriment of the development and implementation of human rights law. This chapter attempts to build a first bridge between these two fields of law. It...

The phenomenon of the intellectual property is becoming more known, exceeding the dimensions of law and legal rules governing the protection of intellectual activity’s results. The approach to the category of intellectual property from the economic point of view is less studied, in comparison...

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

The article focuses on the clash of digital technologies and the copyright law from the recent perspective of long term preservation of culturally important works kept in the records of publicly available libraries. The author argues that although the national legislators in the European Union...

Artists in the United States who sell their works without contractually reserving any rights in the same currently enjoy only limited rights under federal copyright laws to exercise continuing control over such works. The author assesses the shortcomings of copyright protection in comparison...

Dispute boards (DBs) are becoming increasingly well-known around the world as a means of managing conflict so as to avoid disputes on construction projects. However, there has been little discussion of the role that lawyers can play in relation to DBs. This article seeks to fill this gap

Australian case law on infringement of registered trade marks has placed an increasing emphasis on the reputation of the owner of the registered trade mark in determining whether infringement has occurred. Consideration of the trade mark owner's reputation has been included in determining...

This paper discusses how clerical errors made in documents relating to patents should be dealt with. It takes as its cue a recent case that overturned the Canadian Patent Office’s refusal to correct an error – a patent agent’s supply of the wrong serial number of a patent when remitting...

Today marriage-based entitlements are considered part and parcel of marriage itself. This was not always the case. Mining hundreds of handwritten administrative records, executive branch reports, and federal statutes, this Article traces the origins of public marriage-based entitlements to an...

The two types of marital property systems in the United States differ dramatically in the approach taken to ownership of marital property. Shared ownership of assets acquired by the efforts of the spouses during marriage characterizes the community property system. The common law property...