If Canadian corporate statutes include rules providing that a corporation and its shareholders are separate legal persons, what lets courts disregard these rules by piercing the corporate veil? The Court of Appeal for Ontario’s Chevron decision brought this question into the judicial...

Part of a larger textbook on business law and economics, this Chapter surveys how economic analysis has been applied to competition, or antitrust, law, in the main jurisdictions on both sides of the Atlantic. The first part chronicles the successive schools of thought in the US and the EU, with...

In my experience as an expert witness for a number of excellent litigators, I find that litigators know the Rules of Civil Procedure, the Local Rules, the Rules of Evidence, and the personalities of the judges extremely well. I find that in business issues, litigators tend to use terms like...

Commercial law is not a single, monolithic entity. It has grown into a dense thicket of subject-specific branches that govern a broad range of transactions and corporate actions. When one of these events falls concurrently within the purview of two or more of these commercial law branches - such...

Alongside a growing recognition that the traditional territorialist theory is limited in its ability to deal with intensifying cross-border dealings, a pluralistic converging of a multiplicity of legal orders (including domestic) to ensure the efficacy of cross-border commercial law is emerging....

How do you drive economic enterprise in a financial desert? Indian tribes, academics, economists, and policy makers have considered the means and methods for energizing economic growth for forty years. Efforts such as the creation and promotion of the Model Tribal Secured Transactions Act...

China ist ein wichtiger Handelspartner der Europäischen Union und zudem neuer Systemwettbewerber. Sorgen bereiten aus europäischer Sicht vor allem die ökonomischen Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch den chinesischen Staatskapitalismus, die sich zunehmend auch auf den Weltmärkten auswirken....

The theoretical argument behind the “pro-insured” or “pro-insurer” debate contains elements of contract law, business law, and consumer law. This article reexamins the insurance misrepresentation rule under the RLLI, ands compares it to insurance law in China. This comparison...

Cybersecurity, data privacy law, and the related legal implications overlap into a relevant and developing area in the legal field. However, many legal practitioners lack the foundational understanding of computer processes which are fundamental for applying existing and developing legal...

Injustice in criminal cases often takes root before trial begins. Overworked criminal judges must resolve difficult pre-trial evidentiary issues that determine the charges the State will take to trial and the range of sentences the defendant will face. Wrong decisions on these issues often lead...

A worthy reader of the JIBM suggested us to give glossary of the technical terms at the end of the each Issue of the JIBM. Keeping in view the potential benefit of such a glossary for easy and general understanding of various aspects of Islamic banking and finance, a comprehensive glossary of...

Abbildung von Leasingverhältnissen nach IFRS/handelsrechtlicher Rechnungslegung -- Erfüllung der Informationsfunktion des Abschlusses und des Gläubigerschutzes -- Jahresabschlusspolitische Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten -- Auswirkungen auf Kapitalbeschaffungsmöglichkeiten, Praktikabilität der...

"While provisions relating to a common commercial policy (CCP) were already to be found in Articles 110- 116 of the original Treaty of Rome, and a common customs tariff was established during the 1960s,1 it was only in an Opinion of 1975 that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed...

Privacy in the IoT World -- IoT security failures -- The current privacy and data security legal landscape -- Commercial law's consent problem -- Products liability in the IoT Age -- Digital domination in consumer lending transactions -- Consumer data in corporate transactions -- Establishing...

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making' addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime...

Aussagekräftig, kritisch, theoretisch fundiert: Der Lehrbuchklassiker von Gerrit Brösel führt Sie auf sicherem Weg in die Welt der Bilanzpolitik sowie durch die wichtigsten Grundlagen, Funktionen und Methoden der Bilanzanalyse. Die 17. Auflage bringt alle Inhalte auf den neuesten Stand. Für...