Private Law

The book contains an overview of unfair competition law for the protection of intellectual and industrial creations in the EU, the US, and other jurisdictions, such as Canada, Australia, and South Africa. It also contains a comparative theoretical study of the legal and economic justification of the... More

As copyright issues grow more complicated, this guide becomes ever more indispensable. This fifth edition has been updated to include recent judicial and legislative decisions and the debates surrounding publication on the Web and other new media.As copyright issues grow more complicated, this guide... More

For the first time, the facts behind the scorching of Big Tobacco are woven into a single investigative narrative. Written in the fast-paced, riveting style by a reporting team positioned from the beginning inside the frame with key players from all sides of the legal battleground, this book lets re... More

Organized around business issues -- rather than legal issues -- this book addresses the needs of the small business owner in a practical, real-world fashion. It provides quick answers in plain English to the questions that arise most often in business and is designed to get business owners to lawyer... More

"Explains how nonlegal staff members within a corporation can take a leading role in fighting product liability suits and win--highlighting the quality, reliability testing, and investigating techniques necessary to reduce the potential for product liability. Removes the mystique surrounding the leg... More

Now in a fully updated 2nd edition, this legal reference explains the new system of law being developed and promoted by the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), and offers an overview of the aims and achievements of the OHADA system.Legal harmonization is an essentia... More

This book explores the legal issues concerning groups of companies including regulation at national, international and global level. It offers a comparative discussion of the way in which issues common to the regulation of groups have been approached in the UK, in the European Union, in other member... More

To succeed in the US, non-American managers must understand the basics of American law. Doing Business in the US uses marketing strategy to identify the areas of American law which have the greatest impact on a firms success or failure. It then explains these areas of law clearly and concisely. The ... More

Nowadays software engineers not only have to worry about the technical knowledge needed to do their job, but they are increasingly having to know about the legal, professional and commercial context in which they must work. With the explosion of the Internet and major changes to the field with the i... More

This handbook provides anyone contemplating divorce with sufficient information and support to enable them to decide what further advice they might need and subsequently, the most appropriate course of action to pursue. The handbook is sympathetic to the difficulties of separating couples and addres... More

In this important book, an eminent legal authority provides an accessible introduction to and evaluation of the federal bankruptcy system governing bankruptcy filings.As record numbers of bankruptcy cases cause concern that more and more debtors are shirking their responsibilities, Gross offers a ne... More

"Regulatory Encounters" reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinati... More

Published to critical acclaim in 1993, this new edition of The Wrongs of Tort takes account of many new developments in tort, without losing any of the spirit or vigor of the original text. The Wrongs of Tort challenges the widespread assumption in law education that tort is "objective," "apolitical... More