This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the...

Public contracting has become an increasingly important form of administrative action, so much that the modern state has been characterized as a ‘contracting state.' Yet, while public contracting increasingly takes place in globalized markets, the law governing it has been understood...

This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the...

This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the...

As a result of international legalization, the potential for conflicts of overlapping jurisdictions has multiplied vertically between national and international law, as well as horizontally between national and foreign law. In competition control, the latter type of horizontal overlap between US...

The European debt crisis that started in 2009 has revealed underlying structural problems in the European Monetary Union that threaten the viability of the common currency in its current form. An unraveling of monetary coordination in Europe would mark a significant event of disintegration in...

Parallel to the view that national and international law are two separate legal orders, the concept of the rule of law is often separated into a national and an international rule of law. Since the content of both can differ, this can lead to a confrontational perspective which ultimately asks...