Currently trademark bullying has become a serious concern for many small businesses that feel as though powerful corporations are abusing aggressive trademark enforcement and litigation techniques to crush genuine competition. No doubt these concerns merit the serious consideration of all...

In December 2012, the Commission on a Bill of Rights, established by the UK Government, issued its final report. The Report advances very limited, inchoate proposals for a UK Bill of Rights that are essentially superficial in nature. The Report fails to grapple with the fundamental questions...

This draft article analyzes and criticizes the New York court's tort remedies in its nuisance decision, Boomer v. Atlantic Cement, and Calabresi and Melamed's famous law-and-economics article, One View of the Cathedral. From the Remedies branch of Legal Realism, this draft finds both wanting...

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India makes the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy of India. The current consolidated FDI policy is contained in the DIPP Circular 1 of 2012. The next edition, which is in the process...

Unlike the English rule governing court fees and costs, under which the loser pays litigation costs, and the American rule, under which each party pays its own costs, Israel vests in judges full discretion to assess fees and costs. Given concerns about both the English and American rules, and...

Against a backdrop of rapidly evolving crisis management in the European financial and sovereign debt crisis this essay aims both to explore and to re-consider the role of law in the EU integration process: What did law accomplish? Where did it fail? What is law going to endure? What kind of...

Case notes on Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Bird and Ian West Indoor and Outdoor Services Pty Ltd v Australian Posters Pty Ltd which discuss whether a garden equipment salesman is a farmer pursuant to the Farm Debt Mediation Act 1994 (NSW) and whether an attorney can act for a different...

Two legal instruments for promoting renewable energy production - renewable portfolio standards (“RPSs”) and feed-in tariffs (“FITs”) - are in use across the globe. Many studies pit these policies against each other, treating them as either-or options. Some analyses suggest that FITs...

This report offers proposals in the hope they may inform development of a more systematic and integrated approach to the creation, definition and recording of statutory rights, restrictions and obligations (‘RRR') affecting land parcels. While much progress has been made by Australia's land...

What can public authorities do in order to promote regulatory compliance? This paper argues that understanding the compliance motives is key to any enforcement strategy. Simply stepping up the enforcement effort or stiffening penalties is – most of the time – quite ineffective. Especially...