With the emergence of more and more synthetic substances since the 1960's, and broader use occurring from the 1980's onwards, there has been an increasing commodification of the market in new psychoactive substances (NPS). The European Union took an active stance as regards the regulation of...

With the adoption and subsequent national implementation of the E-Commerce Directive's safe harbour regime, the architecture set up in Europe for the liability of internet intermediaries for third party copyright infringement has become two-tiered: at a first stage, it is necessary to examine...

Legislative development aiming for global legal harmonisation has demonstrated varying degrees of success in different areas. The underlying reasons to the challenges such developments face range from the inconsistency between bottom-up and top-down drivers that influence legislative...

We empirically examine whether adopting a uniform set of accounting standards mitigates information frictions in financial markets and facilitates market integration. Using a difference-in-difference design, we find that after the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards...

This chapter sketches the history of EU Company Law, from its beginnings in the 1960s until today. Throughout all periods, EU company law harmonization was largely a top-down, technocratic project that was considered imperative to realize the common market. In other words, it was promoted mainly...

The purpose of this paper is to study the condition of novelty through the analysis of the current situation of non-prejudicial disclosure provisions in several legislations, namely the America Invents Act, the European Patent Convention, and the Andean Decision 486 of 2000 of the Andean...