This edition of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business surveys issues involved in post-employment employer-employee relations and the ability of employers to control the conduct of a former employee. The survey's introductory chapter provides a general review of issues in the context of multiple jurisdictions, followed by countryby-country analyses of 17 jurisdictions, encompassing reports on Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, the Slovak Republic, Switzerland, and the United...

The Yearbook 's principal aim is to review significant legal developments in international business and to offer an important forum and point of reference to international legal practitioners. Volume 13 continues to develop the inclusion of materials which are of particular value to practitioners and advisers working within the international business sector. This 1991 volume gathers a range of considerable expertise to bear upon issues of company law, litigation and arbitration, foreign investment, joint ventures, financial services, and deregulation. The Yearbook is published under the...

The Yearbook 's principal aim is to review significant legal developments in international business, and offers an important forum and point of reference for international legal practitioners. Volume 15 continues to develop the inclusion of materials which are of particular value to practitioners and advisers working within the international business sector. This 1993 volume gathers a range of considerable international expertise to bear upon issues of insolvency administration, rights and remedies of foreign creditors in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, enforcement of judgments,...

The Yearbook reviews significant legal developments in international commerce, and offers an important forum for legal practitioners to address and compare practical legal issues of direct interest to their areas of specialisation. Each volume of the Yearbook features a comprehensive range of articles written for and by leading practitioners and advisers working in the international business sector. Volume 16, the new volume for 1994, addresses key issues in general commercial law, company law, environmental law, foreign investment and litigation, procedure and dispute resolution. The...

The twenty-second volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business contains a section dealing with the current situation regarding computer law in Luxembourg, Hungary and Greece and another describing the ever-changing area of telecommunications and information technology in the United States. A further section covers aspects of intellectual property law. This section contains explanations of the intellectual property rights available in Peru and Israel, and it discusses the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and the Fifth Community...

The Yearbook offers an important forum for legal practitioners to address and compare practical legal issues of direct interest to their areas of specialisation. Each volume features a comprehensive range of articles written for and by leading practitioners and advisers working within the international business sector. The topics covered in Volume 17, the new volume for 1995, range from the ethical issues for lawyers involved in cross-border transactions to insider trading. Several of the chapters make reference to the growing European Union (EU), with one chapter focusing particularly...

The 1998 volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business contains chapters covering a wide variety of legal issues. The first section deals with contractual matters, including joint venture contracts, agreements relating to agency, distribution, licensing and franchising, time sharing and preliminary agreements regarding the buying and selling of property. The second section deals with the privatization of former state-owned companies and monopolies, such as media organizations. Under the heading of Corporate Law', joint stock companies, sub-chapter S corporations,...

This volume examines the important area of dispute resolution. Its main focus is upon those methods of resolving disputes which provide alternatives to the existing judicial system. Under discussion are the most prominent of these methods -- arbitration, mediation and conciliation -- as well as others, such as mini-trials, valuations and dispute review boards. The authors are eminent legal practitioners and scholars from countries spanning the five continents. Consequently, the volume consists of accounts relating to the use of alternative dispute resolution methods in these countries. The...