This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between intellectual property rights (including patents, trade marks, copyright, and designs) and the law of the European Union. It examines the conflict between intellectual property rights (exclusive rights limited normally to the territory of a single Member State) and the principle of free movement of goods and services in the internal market. The various tests and theories propounded by the European Court of Justice in attempting to resolve that conflict are explained from a critical standpoint. The ramifications of the...

This book examines the law relating to the free movement of persons and services. It offers a modern exposition of the law in the context of the convergence of the case law on goods, persons and services, and the emerging case law on the rights which flow from citizenship of the European Union.

This book relates the development of economic and monetary union in the EC to the development of a single market for financial servies. This new edition fully reflects the institutional and legal consequences of the achievement of economic and monetary union in 1999, while taking account of the continuing flow of Community legislation and case law in the area of financial servieces.

In EC Company Law Vanessa Edwards makes a detailed analysis of all the adopted company law and securities directives. She illuminates their historical context, scope, substantive effect, interpretation by the European Court of Justice and national implementation. This book also contains a thorough examination of the scope of companies freedom of establishment, reviewing in depth the case law of the Court of Justice on Article 52 of the EC Treaty in so far as it applies to corporate entities.