Requiring a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) is a common business practice used to safeguard the commercial interests of a licensor and a licensee in intellectual property licensing matters. The recent litigation involving Standard Essential Patents (SEP) has, however, raised doubts over the...

Buyers may try to motivate their sellers to make relationship-specific investments to reduce the probability that the design of the goods they procure is defective. In some countries, courts examine how much real authority the seller had in performing the work to assign liability for a design...

Barley, a nutri-rich cereal is gaining momentum among stakeholders owing to multiple health benefits but the concern is its declining area, possibly attributed to lack of market and competitive pricing strategy. Amongst alternatives, contract farming is widely suggested for better price...

In this article, I develop the concept of "ownership piercing." I use the expression to suggest that courts engage in a process of evaluative reasoning to clarify who owns property rights and controls the limited liability company. I show under what circumstances courts should pierce ownership....

This chapter introduces the concept of strategic public procurement, analyses EU competence in regulating strategic public procurement, investigates the scope of the discretion entrusted to the contracting authorities in the area of strategic public procurement. Section V discusses the limits of...

The contemporary human rights debate is mostly concerned with the protection of people affected by change that is beyond their control. But what about those who make use of their basic economic rights to facilitate economic and social change? Do these agents of change need protection and, if so,...

Professor Verstein suggests that we approach the awareness/use problem in insider-trading law by analyzing the mixed-motives of insider traders, and he argues that insider trading should be illegal only when the trader’s primary reason for trading involves proscribed material non-public...

The Directive 2014/24/EU on Public Procurement (“the Directive 2014/24), the Directive 2014/25/EU on Utilities, and the European Commission have as one of their aims the impulse of aggregation of public purchases by means of central purchasing bodies and other aggregated procurement...

There are various reasons why foreign brand owners may be interested in the Nigerian market. First is the significant population of Nigeria, which stands at over 200 million people. Second is the fact that Nigeria is a large nation of consumers, and third is the fact that fast-moving consumer...

Standard-setting organizations (SSOs) typically require their members to declare whether they hold standard-essential patents (SEPs) or disclose which SEPs they own, and to commit to licensing SEPs on “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory” (FRAND) terms. The apparent vagueness of FRAND...