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The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
One of the first detailed considerations of each of the Principles for Responsible Contracts, with contributions from more than 40 leading international academics and practitioners in the field.
This comprehensive Commentary provides an in-depth analysis of each of the 31 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as well as the 10 Principles for Responsible Contracts. It engages in both a legal and contextual examination of the Principles alongside their application to real world practices at both the domestic and international levels.
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Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law
Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law offers a unique and wide-ranging transnational study of the treatment of ongoing contracts when one of the parties becomes insolvent.
This second edition not only updates existing material, but also extends the analysis to key developing economies and restructuring hubs. Written by experts with extensive practical and scholarly knowledge in the field, this is a cutting-edge investigation into the philosophies and rationales behind the different policy choices adopted by more than 30 jurisdictions across the globe.
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Competition Damages Actions in the EU and the UK
Competition Damages Actions in the EU and the UK is the clearest and most coherent reference point on damages actions for breach of EU competition law.
'David Ashton's book combines an excellent and up-to-date comparative and analytical perspective on national developments with an accessible practitioners’ guide for quantification of damages. It is a fine addition to the bookshelves of scholars and advocates’
– Michael D. Hausfeld, Chair Emeritus, Hausfeld LLP
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Elgar Corporate and Insolvency Law and Practice series
The Elgar Corporate and Insolvency Law and Practice series is a library of works by leading practitioners and scholars covering discrete area of law in the field. Each title will be analytical in approach, highlighting and unpicking the legal issues that are most critical and relevant to practice. Designed to be detailed, focused reference works, the books in this series aim to offer an authoritative statement on the law and practice in key topics within the fields of company law, corporate governance, corporate insolvency and personal insolvency.
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Fixing copyright: Attending the Charles Clark memorial lecture
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