At the beginning of 2014, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the new directive on public procurement. Inter alia, the new Directive introduces a new procedure called the innovation partnership. The availability of the new provisions maybe valuable particularly from the perspective...

Based on an assumption that in its current shape the EU public procurement framework is a highly regulated and rigid system, in which delivery of successful PPP contracts may be hindered, in this paper it will be considered, whether there could be a different, more beneficial way in which to...

The Australian Government's decision to prohibit the use of the tobacco trademark has become an international dispute because in the future these measures might encourage other countries to adopt the same method to fight tobacco consumption. The tobacco companies will be highly affected and...

This article uses insights from cognitive psychology to contrast judge-made law with legislative and executive policy-making. I argue that the predominant narrow conception of reason and rationality have led to overly optimistic views of deliberate policymaking at the expense of traditional...

In December, President of Russia Vladimir Putin delivered the Annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly. During the traditional press conference he expressed his approval of the policies pursued by the RF Government and the Bank of Russia, noting that the current situation was...

This article examines the birth and development of the OMT program and its implications for the EU integration process. Following this, the OMT case is analyzed from two perspectives. First, as an example of “Institution building” in the European Union: developments that lasted two years...

This paper will briefly discuss about copyright individual and collective management, and will examine legal bases for collective rights management (CRM). The main concern of this paper is to assess the establishment and development process of collective management organizations (CMO) in Kosovo,...

The business corporation, a central pillar of modern capitalism, is deemed to have a set of defining features that are universal across different jurisdictions and ever more widely available. However, a close examination of legal developments in Brazil, one of the world's largest economies,...

Mortgage foreclosures are at an all-time high and property values in many parts of the country have declined precipitously. Yet bankruptcy, which is often a last resort for individuals in financial distress, provides little relief to a homeowner who finds that her mortgage debt exceeds the value...