COMPARATIVE COMPANY LAW C - Hardcover

AL, GERNER-BEUERLE ET

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199572208 ISBN 13: 9780199572205

Publisher: Academic, 2019

Synopsis

The World Heritage Convention (WHC) is the most comprehensive and widely ratified among UNESCO treaties on the protection of cultural and natural heritage. The Convention establishes a system of identification, presentation, and registration in an international List of cultural properties and natural sites of outstanding universal value. Throughout the years the WHC has progressively attained almost universal recognition by the international community, and even the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has recently considered sites inscribed in the World Heritage List as "values especially protection by the international community." Besides, the WHC has been used as a model for other legal instruments dealing with cultural heritage, like the recently adopted (2003) Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. During its more than 30 years of life, the Convention has undergone extensive interpretation and evolution in its scope of application. Operational Guidelines, which are the implementing rules governing the operation of the Convention, have been extensively revised. New institutions such as the World Heritage Centre, have been established. New links, with the World Bank and the United Nations, have developed to take into account the economic and political dimension of world heritage conservation and management. However, many legal issues remain to be clarified. For example, what is the meaning of "outstanding universal value" in the context of cultural and natural heritage? How far can we construe "universal value" in terms of representivity between the concept of "World Heritage" and the sovereignty of the territorial state? Should World Heritage reflect a reasonable balance between cultural properties and natural sites? Is consent of the territorial state required for the inscription of a World Heritage property in the List of World Heritage in Danger? What is the role of the World Heritage Centre in the management [...]

About this title

Product Description

Comparative Company Law provides a systematic and coherent exposition of company law across jurisdictions, augmented by extracts taken from key judgments, legislation, and scholarly works. It provides an overview of the legal framework of company law in the US, the UK, Germany, and France, as well as the legislative measures adopted by the EU and the relevant case law of the Court of Justice.

The comparative analysis of legal frameworks is firmly grounded in legal history and legal and economic theory and bolstered by numerous extracts (including extracts in translation) that offer the reader an invaluable insight into how the law operates in context. The book is an essential guide to how company law cuts across borders, and how different jurisdictions shape the corporate lifespan from its formation by way of incorporation to its demise (corporate insolvency) and eventual dissolution. In addition, it offers an introduction to the nature of the corporation, the framework of EU company law, incorporation and corporate representation, agency problems in the firm, rights of stakeholders and shareholders, neutrality and defensive measures in corporate control transactions, legal capital, piercing the corporate veil, and corporate insolvency and restructuring law.

About the Author

Carsten Gerner-Beuerle is Professor of Commercial Law at University College London. He read law and economics at Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of London. From 2004 to 2009 he was a lecturer at King's College London, and from 2009 to 2017 he held appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is admitted to the bar in Germany and practises as a registered European lawyer in England and Wales. He advises on matters of international corporate, insolvency, and capital markets law. Michael Anderson Schillig is a Professor of Law at King's College London. He read law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, King's College London, and Humboldt University Berlin. From 2004 to 2007 he was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, and from 2007 to 2017 he held appointments in international commercial and financial law at King's College London. He is admitted to the bar in Germany and practises as a registered European lawyer in England and Wales. He advises on matters of international corporate, insolvency, and capital markets law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0199572208
• ISBN 13: 9780199572205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1082