Ausgehend von einer ausführlichen Darstellung der Entwicklungslinien des Völkerrechts analysiert Sören C. Schwuchow die Entstehung von Jurisdiktionskonflikten im internationalen Luftraum vor dem Hintergrund rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen sowie der strategischen Interessen der Staaten....

Humangenetische Ressourcen sind Gegenstand wichtiger Spitzenforschung im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Auswirkungen populationsgenetischer Projekte und der neuen Erkenntnisse auf die Menschheit werden intensiv diskutiert. María Cristina Blohm untersucht den Zugang zu humangenetischen Ressourcen...

Ziele und Zwecke des Unionsrahmens für staatliche Beihilfen zur Förderung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation -- Anforderungen an die Kostenrechnung mit dem Fokus der Trennungsrechnung -- Der Kostenbegriff, die Kostenrechnung an Hochschulen und eine Weiterentwicklung der...

The international debate on odious debt touches on many fundamental issues, including the intersection between ethics and finance, the moral responsibility of parties to international contracts and of sovereigns to their constituents. Stephania Bonilla analyzes the dynamics of sovereign debt...

This book discusses doing business and making profit on the right side of the law. It explores the role of aligning business and legal strategies, and using the law as a powerful tool in making businesses successful. In this unique book, the author draws on his experience teaching future...

This book seeks to answer the questions: how do the rules of international treaties on trade and investment apply to the new laws and policies relating to energy-related trade, and do the rules of the multilateral system contribute to or detract from sustainable development? An emerging set of...

This volume traces the evolution of the field of law and economics from its European roots to its neoclassical “Chicagoan” period to its current identity as a more fluid, transatlantic discipline. Paying special attention to the work of German economist Juergen Backhaus, who was instrumental...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) war on offshore tax evasion. The authors explain the new emerging regulatory regimes on the global exchange of information to combat offshore tax evasion and analyse why Automatic...

This book calls upon us to rethink and reboot the European Union. The authors dissect the EU’s many vulnerabilities: how some Member States are backsliding on the rule of law, freedom of the press, and control of corruption - and how globalization’s ‘discontents’ are threatening the...