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Insider Trading
Edited by Stephen M. Bainbridge
This timely collection, edited by a leading academic in the field, brings together seminal works of scholarship on insider trading over a 40 year period, with contributions from many prominent law professors and economists. Areas covered... -
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Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control
Edited by Fred S. McChesney
This volume provides an essential overview of one of the most important developments in economics, finance and law of the past generation: the growing realization of how the market for corporate control functions and why its operation is... -
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Fair Wages
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author arg... -
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Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation
Andrés Guadamuz
Complexity theory as a subject has gained increasing prominence across numerous disciplines including physics, biology, sociology and economics. Large interconnected systems such as the Internet display a number of inherent architectural... -
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The Elgar Guide to Tax Systems
Edited by Emilio Albi, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Tax systems have changed considerably in the past three decades. These fundamental changes have been the result of economic globalization, new political stances, and also of developments in public finance thought. The chapters in this vo...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Governing Disasters
Edited by Alberto Alemanno
This is the first volume that addresses the complexities of the volcanic ash cloud that overshadowed Europe in April 2011, but has subsequently struck again in Australia, Chile and Europe. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Families, Care-giving and Paid Work
Edited by Nicole Busby, Grace James
This unique selection of chapters brings together researchers from a variety of academic disciplines to explore aspects of law’s engagement with working families. It connects academic debate with policy proposals through an integrated se...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Code Wars
Rebecca Giblin
With reference to US, UK, Canadian and Australian secondary liability regimes, this insightful book develops a compelling new theory to explain why a decade of ostensibly successful litigation failed to reduce the number, variety or avai...eBook:Find out more$5.00
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Copyright Law and the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts
Alina Ng
The American Constitution empowers Congress to enact copyright laws to ‘promote the progress of science and the useful arts’. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the connection between copyright law as a legal institution and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Before and After the Economic Crisis
Edited by Marie-Ange Moreau
This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model. The book brings together leading experts to provide a thorough and well-informed response to the recen...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Politics of Intellectual Property
Edited by Sebastian Haunss, Kenneth C. Shadlen
This book offers empirical analyses of conflicts over the ownership, control, and use of knowledge and information in developed and developing countries.eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Intellectual Property and Climate Change
Matthew Rimmer
In the wake of the international summits in Copenhagen and Cancún, there is an urgent need to consider the role of intellectual property law in encouraging research, development, and diffusion of clean technologies to mitigate and adapt ...eBook:Find out more$40.00