Economic law as an economic good : its rule function and its tool funktion in the competition of systems / edited by Karl M. Meessen ; in cooperation with Marc Bungenberg and Adelheid Puttler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meessen, Karl M., author.

Contributor:

Karl M. Meessen, editor.

Bungenberg, Marc, editor.

Puttler, Adelheid, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign trade regulation--Congresses.

Foreign trade regulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Munich, Germany : sellier european law publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Governments, or at least the clever ones among them, are aware of the factors guiding business activities. In the course of adopting and enforcing economic legislation, they seek to attract business activities in order to increase national income (and fiscal revenues), generate employment opportunities and, very generally, please voters. Hence economic law may be considered an economic good, as suggested by the title of this book. That function, which most rules of economic law have in the competition of systems, was strengthened by the worldwide liberalization of trade. Today, it is of greater significance than ever before. Lawyers and economists, academics and practitioners from inside and outside Germany have taken a look at the facts and discussed approaches to conceptualizing them. The resulting thirty essays collected in this volume contribute to the interpretation of existing, and the making of new, economic law.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Economic Law as an Economic Good: Its Rule Function and its Tool Function in the Competition of Systems

Part I. Theoretical Considerations

The Theory of Regulatory Competition and Competition Law

Economic Law Between Harmonization and Competition: The Law & Economics Approach

Economic Constitution, the Constitution of Politics and Interjurisdictional Competition

Assessing the Impact of Economic Law

The Fallacy of Cultivating the Home Turf: A Business Perspective

Economic Law as an Economic Good: Reflections of a European Judge

Part 2. Across the Fields of Economic Law

The Notion of Economic Law and Regulatory Competition

Public Economic Law as the Law of Market Regulation

Competition in the Private Enforcement of Regulatory Law

Enforcing Contractual Claims: From Schmitthoff to Investment Arbitration

Dealing with Foreign Governments

Selecting Locations for Investment

The Competition of Systems in the Market for Listings

Non-U.S. Clients' Reactions to Sarbanes Oxley

The Competition of International Financial Centres and the Role of Law

The Territorial Dimension of Intellectual Property Law

Patent Law as an Investment Factor?

Worldwide Trademark Management

Competition as a WTO subject

Leniency in the ECN Framework of Parallel Competences

Exporting Competition Policy: From Soft Pressures to Shared Values

Part 3. Venues of Systems Competition

Where Trade Policy Stands Today

The Impact of Amicus Curiae Briefs in the Settlement of Trade and Investment Disputes

The Constitutionalism of International Economic Law

Intra-EU Systems Competition

Competition in and from the Harmonization of Private International Law

The European Constitution and Interjurisdictional Competition

Environmental Harmonization in the SADC Region: An Acute Case of Asymmetry

Harmonization of Business Law in the Maghreb: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 11, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-01444-0

9786613014443

3-86653-858-8

OCLC:

451276799