Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Karel Van Hulle
Solvency Requirements for EU Insurers provides a unique insight into the complex world of insurance and will be useful to risk managers, actuaries, accountants, lawyers, board members of (re) insurance companies, insurance intermediaries, consultants, regulators, supervisors, academics, students and, more generally, all those involved with or interested in insurance and in the operation of the insurance market.
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Brendan Van Alsenoy
Practically every organisation in the world processes personal data. European data protection law imposes a series of requirements designed to protect individuals against the risks that result from the processing of their data. It also distinguishes among different types of actors involved in the processing and sets out different obligations for each type of actor. The most important distinction in this regard is the distinction between 'controllers' and 'processors'. This book seeks to determine whether EU data protection law should continue to maintain its current distinction.
Unravelling the Legal Status of Online Intermediaries
Book | 1st edition 2019 | Europe | Bram Devolder
In this book, a panel of international legal experts unravel the legal status of online intermediaries - a thorny knot that legislators, judges and lawyers across the globe are facing.
Essays in Law and Economics in honour of Roger Van den Bergh
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Michael Faure, Louis Visscher, Wicher Schreuders
This Liber Amicorum brings together the contributions of 43 authors, in honour of Roger Van den Bergh. The contributions encompass many different topics, which reflects Roger's broad research interests. They are grouped together in four parts: Competition Law and Economics, Public Law and Economics, Private Law and Economics and Developments in Law and Economics. Many of the contributions contain links to Roger's work, as well as the authors' personal reflections on the importance of Roger for their work. This personal touch makes this Liber Amicorum, truly, a Friends Book for Roger.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | World | Rozen Noguellou, David Renders
The Uber phenomenon is the perfect case for a comparative law study: a global phenomenon, impacting almost every country. This book explains how various legal systems react and adapt to the disruption caused by the emergence of this new economic model.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Carlos Esplugues
At the time of a paradigm change Foreign Investment, Strategic Assets and National Security is a timely analysis of the changing attitude towards foreign investment in major economies, namely the United States of America, the People's Republic of China, Australia, Canada, and Germany, France and the United Kingdom as representatives of the European Union.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | Belgium | Niels Vandezande
This book focuses on the legal aspects of virtual currencies from the perspective of financial and economic law. It establishes a typology of virtual currencies and assesses whether they can be considered as money. The author analyzes whether the EU legal frameworks on electronic money, payment services, anti-money laundering, and markets in financial instruments can be applied to virtual currencies.
The impact of the digital revolution and globalisation on competition law enforcement in Europe
Book | 1st edition 2018 | Europe | Damien Gerard, Bernd Meyring, Eric Morgan de Rivery
The digital revolution and the process of globalisation have transformed the way businesses compete in today’s world. How have competition law rules and enforcement practices reflected these transformations?
A Comparative and Empirical Study on the Use of the European Uniform Procedures
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Elena Alina Ontanu
This book evaluates the application of the first autonomous European civil procedures: the European Order for Payment and the European Small Claims Procedure.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Robby Houben, Werner Vandenbruwaene
This book takes stock after a year of application of the SRM and examines the situation from various perspectives: the perspective of the SRB, the NRA, the supervised bank and judicial protection. Special attention is given to the division of power between the RB and the NRA and the impact on the supervised bank, the relationship and links between the SRM and the SSM and the query whether the right balance between national and supranational powers has been struck, also in view of the principle of subsidiarity.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | Europe | Gemma Fajardo-García, Antonio Fici, Hagen Henrÿ, David Hiez, Deolinda A. Meira, Hans-H. Muenker, Ian Snaith
The Principles of European Cooperative Law (PECOL) focus on the ‘ideal’ legal identity of cooperatives. Drafted by a team of legal scholars, the PECOL aim to describe the common core of European cooperative law.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Ignace Claeys, Evelyne Terryn
This book three legal instruments proposed by the European Commission in the context of its Digital Single Market Strategy, which has recently become one of its priorities. The proposed instruments are: (1) a directive for the supply of digital content; (2) a directive for the online and other distance sales of goods; and (3) a regulation on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Gerard McCormack, Reinhard Bork
A comparative analysis of security rights in insolvency proceedings under the main legal traditions of the European Union (common law, Germanic, ‘Napoleonic Code’ and ‘East’ European) in the context of Articles 5 and 13 of the European Insolvency Regulation – Regulation 1346/2000.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Reinhard Bork
Insolvency proceedings have increasingly cross-border effects, which are regulated by many international regulations. This book answers the fascinating question of what the underlying principles of international (cross-border) insolvency laws are and how they can be used for the purpose of further harmonising cross-border insolvency law in the EU and beyond.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Catalina Goanta
Aiming to fill a gap in existing literature, this book contains an empirical study of the converging effects of the harmonisation policies used by the European lawmaker in consumer sales law.
After the Implementation of the Consumer Rights Directive
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Giovanni De Cristofaro, Alberto De Franceschi
This book offers an innovative and systematic analysis of the new rules on consumer sales contracts in several EU Member States after the implementation of Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Guang Shen
This book examines the regulation of the inter-provincial establishment of companies in China and the EU regulation of the cross-border establishment of companies from the perspective of comparative law and economics.
This rise of a particular kind of European Union legislation known as the ‘optional instrument’ is a novel trend in the context of EU law, and one that until now has not been comprehensively mapped or explored. This study examines and discusses existing and proposed EU Optional Instruments (OIs) in different fields of European law, including company law, intellectual property law and procedural law (such as the European Company, the Community Trade Mark and the European Small Claims Procedure, respectively), as well as contract law.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Caroline Cauffman, Jan Smits
In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law.
