In 2009, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Over its fifty-year existence the Treaty and the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) built upon it, have promoted freedom of scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Despite the many successes of the Antarctic...

Many in the U.S. have now heard about the U.K. Clementi Report, which provided the impetus for the reforms in the 2007 UK Legal Services Act, which has dramatically changed the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales. Most are not aware, however, that a similar initiative exists...

The paper focuses on the potential of comparative sociology of law as an instrument for analysing the effective operation of law in society. This approach links normative and empirical approaches to legal research. Applying advanced sociological theory of law, the paper analyses how social and...

Issues of Integration are placed under a critical lens. The concepts of Globalization, Legal Transplants, Environmental Integration and Sustainable Development are studied with references to the complex context of the Caspian sea, but in ways in which can be seen as informative regardless of the...

Poverty does not only cause environmental degradation, but it often also leads to a significant drain on the cultural wealth of societies. What cultural and natural heritage have in common is that they are non-renewable resources, and many approaches and mechanisms for their protection are very...

This Article is the first comprehensive study of how American courts have resolved conflicts of laws arising from cross-border torts over the last four decades. This period coincides with the confluence of two independent forces: (1) a dramatic increase in the frequency and complexity of...

This is the Twenty-Second Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It covers cases decided by American state and federal courts from January 1 to December 31, 2008, and reported during the same period. Of the 3,249 conflicts cases meeting both of these parameters, the Survey focuses on...

Along with discussions of global governance, global administrative law, and fragmentation, international legal scholars and other social scientists have increasingly engaged in debates over the causes and effects of global constitutionalization. These debates often suffer from imprecise and...

This paper analyzes the conflict between the internal market΄s freedoms, - and especially the free movement of persons, goods, and the freedom to provide services, and the other fundamental human rights that are enshrined in the context of the European law. More specifically, it aims to...

English Abstract: Benedikt Walesch analyses the provisional measures under the UPC Rules of Procedure (RoP) and compares them with preliminary injunctions in German patent litigation.He examines the requirements for provisional measures. In doing so, he discusses how the procedure can be...