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Notion, nature and extent of consent in international arbitration
(2009)
Arbitration is a consensual and private mechanism of dispute resolution which leads to
an enforceable arbitral award. In the traditional field of commercial arbitration the
agreement to arbitrate is considered to be the ...
Regulation of Reinsurance in Taiwan: Developing an Appropriate Regulatory Environment for Maintaining the Solvency of Primary Insurers
(2002)
Unlike other financial services (e. g., services provided by a bank or a primary
insurance company), reinsurers seldom deal with the consumers directly. This indirect
relationship with the consumer results in the view ...
The contribution of the United States Supreme Court and the European Court of justice in the vertical and horizontal allocation of power
(2009)
This thesis explores the contribution of the US Supreme Court
(USSC) and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the vertical and
horizontal allocation of power. Said differently, it answers the two
following questions: ...
Developing constraints on property rights in the community interest: concepts of ownership and the limitation of property rights in land and copyright law
(2010)
There is a dominant ideology of property in land law, the ‘liberal model’, in which the rights of the property owner are perceived as being absolute. However, there is an alternative model, the ‘stewardship model’, in which ...
Regulatory interpretation: a case study of the FSA policy of rule-use
(2008)
My doctoral thesis examines the policy of rule-use in the UK financial
regulation. Its case study is the current FSA conduct of business
regulation. It consists of two parts. Part I considers the evolution of the
policy ...
Psychoanalysis and the law beyond the Oedipus : a study in legal fictions.
(2002)
The present thesis considers the function of law in the political from the perspective
of psychoanalysis, a discipline which foregrounds the subject.
Drawing from the Lacanian contributions to psychoanalytic theory, I ...
The Role of the family in cases of disputed medical decision making
(2009)
This doctoral thesis considers the family’s role in the process of making medical
treatment decisions for one of its members.
Chapter 1 explores the meaning of family in the context of illness and disability.
It is ...
Trade globalisation and the reform of customs valuation and VAT on importation of goods: the example of Thailand
(2000)
The purpose of this thesis is to reform customs valuation law and VAT on
importation of goods under trends in trade globalisation, using Thailand as the
example. To achieve this purpose, a number of related topics (e.g. ...
Competition law and policy in a transitional China: transplantation and localisation
(2008)
Chinese competition law was conceived in the 1980s, soon after the post-Mao state
adopted an open-door policy. Based primarily on the EC competition law model, an
Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), as a principal pillar of Chinese ...
Badges of trade: the protection of trade marks and related intangibles in unfair competition law
(1995)
The increasing efforts within the European Union to harmonise
intellectual property law also lead to the approximation of
some aspects of unfair competition law. Despite these
efforts, common standards for unfair ...
