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  • What exactly is cancer?

    What happens with your body when you get cancer?

    Martin sits thoughtfully in the kitchen with his aunt, who had cancer, and asks her what cancer exactly is. She then tells him the story of the “cellings” in the human body. Slowly, some cellings turn into “cancerlings,” because they are angry about the "rubbish" in the human body resulting from wrong nutrition or air pollution we breathe in. They are spreading and threatening the cellings. A ... Read more

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  • Shareholder Activism

    Benefits and Drawbacks

    Series Book 43 - Schriftenreihe zum Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht
    This book analyses and compares the benefits and drawbacks of shareholder activism in corporations under US American and German law, applying means of new institutional economics. The analysis concentrates on three fields of action of active shareholders in targeted corporations: nominations and elections, transaction decisions and financial decisions. The author evaluates and compares the ... Read more

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    Hong Kong's Corporate, Securities and Tax Laws in its Transition from Britain to China

    Series series International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
    This is a case study of legal transplant, economic development, cultural adaptation and political integration. Hong Kong's journey from British entrepôt to China's international financial centre is one of the most interesting legal stories of our time. But Hong Kong's future is even more interesting: will this region with British-origin institutions survive full integration into China and become ... Read more

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  • The Collaborative Economy and EU Law

    'Disruptive innovation', 'the fourth industrial revolution', 'one of the ten ideas that will change the world'; the collaborative/sharing economy is shaking existing norms. It poses unprecedented challenges in terms of both material policies and governance in almost all aspects of EU law.This book explores the application – or indeed inadequacy – of existing EU rules in the context of the ... Read more

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  • Cross-border Transfer and Collateralisation of Receivables

    A Comparative Analysis of Multiple Legal Systems

    Legal systems around the world vary widely in terms of how they deal with the transfer of and security interests in receivables. The aim of this book is to help international financiers and lawyers in relevant markets in their practice of international receivables financing. Substantively, this book analyses three types of receivables financing transactions, ie outright transfer, security transfer ... Read more

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  • Secured Credit in Europe

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    Winner of the 2016–2018 KG Idman Prize.This monograph seeks the optimal way to promote compatibility between systems of proprietary security rights in Europe, focusing on security rights over tangible movables and receivables. Based on comparative research, it proposes how best to tackle cross-border problems impeding trade and finance, notably uncertainty of enforceability and unexpected loss of ... Read more

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  • Commonwealth Caribbean Company Law

    Series series Commonwealth Caribbean Law
    In the last twenty five years, company law in the Commonwealth Caribbean has undergone dramatic changes, from a model influenced by English law to a new, harmonised collection of regional legislation based on the Caricom and CLI model Acts that vary substantially across Caricom member states.The variation within Caribbean company law presents an enormous challenge, both in terms of the breadth of ... Read more

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  • Limitation of Liability in International Maritime Conventions

    The Relationship between Global Limitation Conventions and Particular Liability Regimes

    Series series IMLI Studies in International Maritime Law
    Limitation of liability for maritime claims is a concept of respectable antiquity which is now deeply entrenched in the maritime industry. Under this concept, the shipowner is entitled to limit his liability for maritime claims up to a maximum sum regardless of the actual amount of the claims. The concept of limitation of liability has been adopted by many conventions ranging from those relating ... Read more

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    Conflict of interest occurs at all levels of governance, ranging from local to global, both in the public and the corporate and financial spheres. There is increasing awareness that conflicts of interest may distort decision-making processes and generate inappropriate outcomes, thereby undermining the functioning of public institutions and markets. However, the current worldwide trend towards ... Read more

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