Law : Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice

"Everything corporate employees must know to understand--and comply with--the Sarbanes-Oxley Act No law in recent memory has caused more confusion and appre......

The only consumers guide to making sense of land-use laws and regulationsMany property owners have no idea what their rights are when it comes to altering th......

Starting from a discussion of the theoretical underpinning of the place companies occupy in society, this book explores the consequences of adherence to free......

Between the passage of the Bubble Act in 1720 and the sweeping reforms of the General Incorporation Act of 1844, the legal framework of business organization......

This important book broadens our conceptualization of the topic of children and law, addressing a wide-ranging set of issues in need of attention. The autho......

The Lutheran Reformation of the early sixteenth century brought about immense and far-reaching change in the structures of both church and state, and in both......

A. J. Boyle assesses the current state of English company law on minority shareholders' remedies from historical, theoretical and comparative perspectives in......

The emergence of a European private law is one of the great issues on the legal agenda of our time. Set-off and 'extinctive' prescription (or limitation of a......

Anglo-American private law (the law governing mutual rights and obligations of individuals) has been a far more complex phenomenon than is usually recognized......

This book addresses several aspects of the law and economics of intellectual property rights (IPRs) that have been underanalyzed in the existing literature. ......

The importance of disclosure as a regulatory device in company law is widely recognized. This book explores the disclosure requirements of companies in their......

This examination of twelve case studies about mistake, fraud and duties to inform reveals significant differences about how contract law works in thirteen Eu......

Independent of criminal or contract law, Tort law provides individuals and groups with redress for injury to every dimension of life from physical injury, to......

Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime. In America some states have already outlawed cloning and Congress is working to enact a natio......

The relationship between science, law and justice has become a pressing issue with recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions beginning with Daubert v. Merrell-Dow ......

The book presents the first sustained theoretical analysis of what rights children should possess in connection with state decision making about their person......

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the legal regulation of the provision of healthcare to young children in England and Wales. A critical anal......

Nothing is more important in English land law than 'possession'. It is the foundation of all title, rights and remedies. But what exactly is it, and why does......

This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, ......

Not since the 1960s have U.S. politicians, Republican or Democrat, campaigned on platforms defending big government, much less the use of regulation to help ......