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China State Commercial Banks' Non-Performing Loans: Workout and Prevention
(Queen Mary University of London, 2001-02)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the very significant problem of State bank nonperforming
loan (NPL) in China. NPLs undermine the stability of China's banking system
and the efficient operation of its markets. ...
The Collateralisation and Securitisation of Intellectual Property
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-01-26)
Intellectual Property (IP) is becoming an increasingly important source of collateral in debt-based
financial transactions. This thesis will show that IP and financing are intrinsically linked. They both
can be used to ...
LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR MONETARY UNION IN ANGLOPHONE WEST-AFRICA: THE NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE
(Queen Mary University of London, 2006)
Economic and monetary integration efforts in West Africa over the past several
decades have been highly problematic. However, with the recent commitment of the
international community and key international institutions ...
The Evolution of Data Protection and Privacy in the Public Security Context - An Institutional Analysis of Three EU Data Retention and Access Regimes
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-07-30)
Since nearly two decades threats to public security through events such as 9/11, the
Madrid (2004) and London (2005) bombings and more recently the Paris attacks
(2015) resulted in the adoption of a plethora of national ...
Corporate Liability Towards Tort Victims in the Personal Injury Context
(Queen Mary University of London, 2018-05-29)
This thesis examines approaches to establishing liability in corporate groups. It
considers the problem that arises when an insolvent subsidiary’s tort creditors
suffer personal injury, and try to pursue recourse against ...
The Case for Virtual Property
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-09-27)
Virtual assets should be treated as a species of property. Users of virtual environments have legitimate expectations about acquiring legal interests in virtual assets as they would in their physical counterparts under ...
The Impact of the Russian Legal Climate on Foreign Investors
(Queen Mary University of London, 2006-11)
There is a consensus in the law and development field and international policy
circles that a Theoretically Ideal Legal Climate is necessary to attract foreign
investment into an emerging economy. This research study ...
Banking in MERCOSUR : liberalisation and integration : policy reflections
(Queen Mary University of London, 2006)
This thesis studies MERCOSUR Agreements in the area of banking
services. The core issue of this study is to examine whether the present
and potential benefits arising from MERCOSUR Agreements - as they
have been designed ...
The FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture : Towards Food Security, Conservation, Equity
(Queen Mary University of London, 2007)
This thesis puts forward the claim that the FAO Treaty ("ITPGRFA") adopted
in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to
promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity, and ...
THE ROLE OF THE REQUIREMENT OF INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION IN GENE PATENTING: PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AND POTENTIAL IMPACT ON THE PROGRESS OF INNOVATION
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-06-24)
The major advances in the identification of the human genome that took place from the early 1990s onwards triggered a significant increase in the number of patent applications concerning newly discovered human gene sequences ...