Weekly New and Forthcoming Publications Alert
Date: 5 July 2008
Issue: 36
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TITLE: China's banking Law: The legal status and treatment of foreign banks in the people's republic of China
AUTHOR: Wang, Wei
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN: 0-7546-7084-8
SUMMARY: This book reflects new developments in and reform of China's banking law system. It focuses on the relationship between GATS/WTO national treatment obligations and China's banking law. Ultimately, the study argues that China should integrate its existing banking law framework to enhance the consistency with GATS/WTO national treatment obligations...More Information
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TITLE: Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas
AUTHOR: Behdad, Sohrab et al.
PUBLISHER: Routledge
ISBN: 978-0-415-45305-9
SUMMARY: This is a new examination of how Sharia - the Islamic concept of divine law, affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including human rights and family law...More Information
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TITLE: Key Documents in International Law
AUTHOR: Malanczuk, Peter
PUBLISHER: Routledge
ISBN: 978-0-415-24687-3
SUMMARY: This book brings together over 75 documents in international law together in one volume, providing unique and easy access to key treaties, protocols, conventions, and statutes. It includes a wide range of documents from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Moon Treaty to the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development...More Information
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TITLE: Reappraising the Resort to Force: International Law, Jus ad Bellum and the War on Terror
AUTHOR: Moir, Lindsay
PUBLISHER: Hart
ISBN: 978-1-84113-609-7
SUMMARY: A number of commentators assert that the military response to the terrorist atrocities of 11 September 2001 - encompassing attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, and commonly referred to as the war on terror - has significantly impacted upon the international...More Information
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TITLE: Corporate Finance Law
AUTHOR: Ferran, Eilis
PUBLISHER: Oxford
ISBN: 978-0-19-923051-8
SUMMARY: This book explores the relationship between law and corporate finance. Corporate finance theory seeks to understand how incorporated firms address the financial constraints that affect their investment decisions by using varied financial instruments that give holders different claims on the firm's assets. Recent scholarship in this area explores precisely how legal mechanisms affect corporate finance and the development of financial markets...More Information