The Legal 500 - Europe, Middle East and Africa

The Legal 500 - Europe, Middle East and Africa

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Published: 2006-04-01

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ISBN-13: 9781903927564

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First published in 1990, this is the leading guide to law firms throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. Researched by the team, through first-hand interviews with lawyers and clients, the book includes coverage of the legal markets in more than 60 jurisdictions.


Eurolegalism

Eurolegalism

Author: R. Daniel Kelemen

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0674061055

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Despite western Europe's traditional disdain for the United States' "adversarial legalism," the European Union is shifting toward a very similar approach to the law, according to Daniel Kelemen. Coining the term "eurolegalism" to describe the hybrid that is now developing in Europe, he shows how the political and organizational realities of the EU make this shift inevitable. The model of regulatory law that had long predominated in western Europe was more informal and cooperative than its American counterpart. It relied less on lawyers, courts, and private enforcement, and more on opaque networks of bureaucrats and other interests that developed and implemented regulatory policies in concert. European regulators chose flexible, informal means of achieving their objectives, and counted on the courts to challenge their decisions only rarely. Regulation through litigation-central to the U.S. model-was largely absent in Europe. But that changed with the advent of the European Union. Kelemen argues that the EU's fragmented institutional structure and the priority it has put on market integration have generated political incentives and functional pressures that have moved EU policymakers to enact detailed, transparent, judicially enforceable rules-often framed as "rights"-and back them with public enforcement litigation as well as enhanced opportunities for private litigation by individuals, interest groups, and firms.


AI on Trial

AI on Trial

Author: Mark Deem

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-06-16

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1526513579

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AI on Trial follows the same process as a High Court trial, and in so doing it takes an innovative approach to the most innovative of technological areas. Addressing the current state of artificial intelligence and the law, the book identifies why the technology should be 'placed on trial' and presents relevant evidence, before passing 'judgment' and proposing a Manifesto for Responsible AI and a blueprint for an ethical, legal and regulatory framework. The 'trial' examines such questions as: -Should AI, a computer technology, have rights and responsibilities? -What are the legal and ethical issues created by the implicit bias of coders and data sets? -Is AI racist? -Do we need a Hippocratic Oath in AI? -Could AI lead to a data war to end all wars? -Can we trust AI? Readers will benefit from understanding the necessary considerations in formulating any legal framework and will come to recognise the role of any such framework, not only in preventing harm, but in supporting growth and technological advancement. Written from the viewpoint of practitioners, academics and journalists, this is an essential title for all information and technology law practitioners, in-house counsel, data protection officers, company directors, finance directors, academics and students. Technologists, regulators, legislators and journalists interested in getting to grips with the issues presented by AI will also benefit. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Cyber Law online service.


Injunctions in Patent Law

Injunctions in Patent Law

Author: Jorge L. Contreras

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1108875777

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Patents are important tools for innovation policy. They incentivize the creation and dissemination of new technical solutions and help to disclose their working to the public in exchange for limited exclusivity. Injunctions are important tools of their enforcement. Much has been written about different aspects of the patent system, but the issue of injunctions is largely neglected in the comparative legal literature. This book explains how the drafting, tailoring and enforcement of injunctions in patent law works in several leading jurisdictions: Europe, the United States, Canada, and Israel. The chapters provide in-depth explanation of how and why national judges provide for or reject flexibility and tailoring of injunctive relief. With its transatlantic and intra- European comparisons, as well as a policy and theoretical synthesis, this is the most comprehensive overview available for practicing attorneys and scholars in patent law. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.


International Arbitration and Public Policy

International Arbitration and Public Policy

Author: Devin Bray

Publisher: Juris Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1937518442

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International Arbitration and Public Policy includes articles that originally appeared in the Stockholm Arbitration Report (SAR) and the Stockholm International Arbitration Review (SIAR). The articles have been revised and updated for this publication. The authors and articles selected include a wide range of perspectives and include judges, arbitrators, seasoned practitioners and well-respected scholars that can account for the first-hand practice-orientated developments of international arbitration. The book is set out in two parts. In the first part of the book the authors tackle the daunting task of articulating the architecture and function of international public policy, highlighting its domestic and transnational dimensions as well as procedural and substantive contours. In the second part of the book, the authors tease out specific manifestations of the international public policy concept, addressing issues commonly seen in the application of the public policy concept in various jurisdictions and regions of the world, including the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and East Asia, as well as under New York Convention.