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.
Trends, Challenges and Best international Practices
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Eric Van Ginderachter
In search of more effective cartel prosecution in Europe: identifying recent trends and best practices at both EU and Member State level, while discussing how to face current challenges for better public and private enforcement in cartel cases.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Bart Bellen
This book analyses share purchase agreements governed by Belgian law used for company acquisitions, whereby a purchaser acquires control over a Belgian target company through the acquisition of a controlling shareholding.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Mitja Kovac, Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
This edited volume addresses the importance, implications, practices, problems and the role of economic evidence in EU competition law. It includes contributions on the use of the economic approach in the application and enforcement of EU competition law in different EU countries, candidate member states and third countries.
Book | 2nd edition 2016 | Europe | Gert Straetmans, Jules Stuyck
This book gives legal practitioners, but also scholars and students, a comprehensive, but concise and practice-oriented introduction into the major issues of Belgian regulation on Market Practices.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Ilse Samoy, Marco Loos
Technological and economical developments require contracting parties to be informed and advised. This book analyses several aspects of these information and notification duties.
