Any project which involves an EPC contract is also likely to involve a number of other complicated contracts. The challenge of the parties to an EPC contract is not to try to eliminate risk but rather put into place a narrative structure that enables the parties to predict the contractual result that would obtain if a risk materializes. If the EPC contract does not allow the parties to determine the consequences of an unanticipated situation, they will have to look to an expert, mediator, tribunal, or court to impart guidance or pass judgment. The sample forms of contract contained in Volume 2 of Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts are intended to serve as a guide to demonstrate how risks and responsibilities can be allocated among project sponsors, EPC contractors and the various other parties that may be involved in a project. Collectively the sample forms in this volume offer an extraordinary resource that provides the benefit of lessons learned and priceless insight into any project being undertaken which can help assure the resilience of any EPC project.

The current financial crisis is preoccupying business and politics like no prior crisis. The economic effects are being felt on global, European, and national levels and are forcing governments to take extreme counter-measures. The long-term goal is not merely stabilization but rather to stabilize the financial system. System stability requires a regulatory framework that can comprehensively prevent possible future crises. For the first time at a conference held at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, leading experts from the legal and economic academic fields discussed the common effects and impact of the financial crisis on the (future) economic system.

Impulse fur eine europaische harmonisierung DES Urheberrechts Urheberrecht im deutsch-franzoesischen Dialog Die Harmonisierung des Urheberrechts in Europa wird auch in den kommenden Jahren eine Herausforderung bleiben. Die Rechtsordnungen der Mitgliedsstaaten weisen gerade in diesem Rechtsgebiet erhebliche Unterschiede auf. Will man eine moeglichst breite Beteiligung der Mitglieder an diesem Prozess erreichen, so mussen ihre verschiedenen Ansatze bei der Harmonisierung Berucksichtigung finden. Dazu bedarf es zunachst einer grundlichen Analyse der Besonderheiten der jeweiligen Regelungssysteme. Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint ein Vergleich des deutschen und des franzoesischen Urheberrechts besonders lehrreich. Zudem zeigt die Erfahrung, dass die Punkte, in denen das "deutsch-franzoesische Tandem Einigkeit erzielen konnte, oftmals einen Sogeffekt auf die Gemeinschaft ausgeubt haben. Aus diesem Grund haben das Max-Planck-Institut fur Geistiges Eigentum und das Institut de Recherche en Propriete Intellectuelle Henri-Desbois beschlossen, gemeinsam von einem deutsch-franzoesischen Standpunkt aus die Perspektiven eines Urheberrechts auf europaischer Ebene auszuloten. Von September 2004 bis Januar 2006 fand eine Vortragsreihe im Wechsel in Munchen und Paris statt, in deren Rahmen namhafte Urheberrechtexperten beider Lander zentrale Fragen des Urheberrechts diskutierten. Ziel der gemeinsamen UEberlegungen war es, dem europaischen Gesetzgeber auf unabhangigem Wege Loesungsmoeglichkeiten fur eine Harmonisierung aufzuzeigen. Den Abschluss bildete ein Symposium, auf dem die gemeinsam erarbeiteten Thesen diskutiert wurden. Die ideenreichen Beitrage dieser Vortragsreihe sind im vorliegenden Band abgedruckt. PERSPECTIVES D'HARMONISATION DU DROIT D'AUTEUR EN EUROPE Rencontres franco-allemandes L'harmonisation europeenne du droit d'auteur reste un enjeu majeur pour les prochaines annees, tant different dans ce domaine les traditions juridiques des differents Etats membres. Afin d'entrainer une large adhesion de la part de ces pays, ces differentes conceptions doivent etre prises en compte dans le processus d'harmonisation, ce qui necessite qu'une analyse de ces particularites soit conduite au prealable. Dans cette perspective, la comparaison des systemes francais et allemand du droit d'auteur est tres riche d'enseignements. De plus, l'experience passee a demontre que les points communs degages par le fameux " axe franco-allemand " ont souvent eu un grand effet d'entrainement au sein de l'Union europeenne. C'est pour cette raison que l'Institut Max-Planck pour le droit de la propriete intellectuelle et l'Institut de Recherche en Propriete Intellectuelle Henri-Desbois ont decide ensemble de conduire une reflexion sur l'avenir du droit d'auteur a l'echelle europeenne, dans une perspective franco-allemande. Avec pour ambition de proposer, de maniere independante, des pistes a suivre au legislateur communautaire, une serie de conferences traitant des principales questions du droit d'auteur et reunissant de prestigieux experts francais et allemands a ete organise de septembre 2004 a janvier 2006 successivement a Munich et a Paris, cloture par une conference finale durant laquelle ont ete discutees les differentes idees degagees lors des rencontres precedentes. C'est ces riches contributions qui ont ete reproduites dans le present ouvrage.

Der Autor beschreibt alle Phasen eines Lizenzierungsprojektes, zeigt den Weg zur Auswahl des richtigen Produktes, beleuchtet m gliche Kostenfallen und beschreibt im Detail, welche Schnittstellen zwischen Produktmarketing, Vertrieb, Entwicklung, Support, Logistik und Hotline zu beachten sind. Es werden vor allem Softwarehersteller angesprochen, die eine elektronische Lizenzierung ihrer Produkte erstmalig einf hren oder derzeitige Verfahren am State-of-the-Art ausrichten wollen. Erfolgreiche Software-Lizenzierung ist kein reines Entwicklungsprojekt, sondern umfasst praktisch alle Bereiche eines Software-Herstellers.

The establishment of a School of International Arbitration was a sufficiently important occurrence to have brought to London, for its inaugural conference, most of the world's leading experts on international arbitration. The three-day Symposium on March 25-27, 1985 sought to identify and consider the It was not the aim contemporary problems affecting international arbitration. of the Symposium to develop, propose or agree solutions to these problems, but rather to discuss the issues and alternative solutions. The success of the School will be measured in the future by its contribution, through research and teaching, to the development of solutions to the difficulties and uncertainties which reduce the effectiveness of international arbitration agreements and awards and the conduct of international arbitral proceedings. This book reproduces the papers presented at the Symposium (amended and varied by several contributors). It is not considered appropriate here to comment on or analyse paper by paper the ideas presented or discussions which ensued. However, it would be appropriate to make reference to specific developments in the short period since the Symposium directly relevant to the papers reproduced and the discussions which ensued. The pertinence of the subject-matter selected becomes clear from these subsequent developments.

Das Management geistigen Eigentums spielt eine wichtige Rolle fur den Unternehmenserfolg und ist deshalb als eine eigenstandige unternehmerische Aufgabe zu betrachten. Aufbauend auf den Gebieten Rechtswissenschaft, Betriebswirtschaft, Managementlehre und Ingenieurswissenschaft, erfordert sie eine interdisziplinare Herangehensweise. Die Frage der Interdisziplinaritat fur das Management geistigen Eigentums wird in diesem Buch erstmals behandelt. Ausserdem werden rechtswissenschaftliche Aspekte in Managementmodellen konsequent berucksichtigt."

This revision guide is intended to serve as a complement to the textbook. Its aim is essentially to provide past examination questions set by the Institute of Bankers and the examiners' own answers together with past questions set at the City of London Polytechnic and other questions, with their answers. This gives the reader a wider range of topics which reflects the contents of the textbook, and permits of selectivity to meet need. It is suggested that as each textbook chapter is read, the relevant section in the Revision Guide should be attempted in order to test knowledge and understanding, thereby further enhancing the learning process. To facilitate this, the guide is set out section by section, to match the chapters in the textbook. Several sections are prefaced by introductions to bridge the gap between textbook and questions. In addition, questions are presented in succeeding order of difficulty so that readers can move from the less to the more complex at their own speed. November 1985 L. Waxman vii Passing the Examination The Banking Diploma Stage 2 Examination Finance ofInternational Trade. The Institute of Bankers Diploma examinations take place twice yearly, in April and September. Prospective candidates who wish to prepare themselves as thoroughly as possible and who are using the associated textbook to this revision guide will find the question and answers which it contains an indispensable means of preparation for the examination paper "Finance ofInternational Trade".

This book is intended as a contribution to the theory of contingent claim valuation based on arbitrage considerations. It is concerned with preference-free valuations of contingent claims (such as options written on a stock) in frictionless multiperiod securities markets that do not permit arbitrage profits. Besides the question of pricing it considers the possibility of hedging in securities markets. The research reported in this book was carried out at the Institut fUr Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, University of Bonn. While working in this field and preparing this monograph I received helpful comments and encouragement from many people, and I would like to thank all of them. Special thanks are due to Prof. Dr. Dieter Sonder- mann. He first stimulated my interest in the theory of contingent claim valuation and commented on my work at various stages. Furthermore, I would like to thank Profs. Martin Hellwig, Peter Schonfeld and Klaus SchUrger, all University of Bonn, for helpful comments on earlier ver- sions of this monograph. Parts of this monograph were presented at va- rious meetings including the European Meeting of the Econometric Socie- ty, Pisa 1983, the European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Madrid 1984, and the third Conference "Geld, Banken und Versicherungen", Karls- ruhe 1984. I greatly appreciate comments of Profs. Stephen Ross, Yale University, and Michael Brennan, UCLA. I take this opportunity to ex- press my indebtness to my colleague Dr. Shinichiro Nakamura for his con- stant encouragement during the laborious process of writing this mono- graph.

European Banking and Financial Law Statutes presents all the key legislation for European banking and financial law in one student-friendly volume. This book is: * up-to-date with the law: based on the official consolidated texts of all relevant European instruments, this book provides a fully current collection of legislation * tailored to course outlines: content has been curated to align with European banking and financial law courses * exam friendly: conforming to regulations, this is an un-annotated text that is suitable for exam use * easy to use: a clear and attractive text design, detailed table of contents and multiple indices provides ease of reference and navigation. Ideal for course and exam use, as well as for reference, this book is a perfect companion resource for student learning and exam success, which is especially tailored for use in combination with the European Banking and Financial Law textbook.

Antitrust laws and proceedings in Europe, both at the Community and national levels, shape the European and international business landscape profoundly. It is therefore essential that business leaders and legal practitioners remain informed of the most important antitrust law developments and their effect on the business world. Antitrust Developments in Europe, 2002 provides a comprehensive and practical commentary on the past year's major developments in EC and national antitrust law. Topics covered include: + Vertical Restraints; + Horizontal Agreements; + Abuse of Market Power; + Mergers & Acquisitions; + Joint Ventures; + State Aid; and + Policy and Procedures. The insightful and concise analysis of major antitrust actions contained in this yearbook will be invaluable to antitrust legal practitioners, in-house counsel, businesspeople, and others with an interest in the field. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, with one of the most sophisticated and highly-respected European antitrust law practices, has systematically and meticulously monitored antitrust developments in Europe since the early 1970s. This volume represents the combined efforts and expertise of Cleary Gottlieb's antitrust practitioners in this rapidly-changing field.

The need for suppressing the illicit traffic in drugs can hardly be over-emphasized. Yet, the licit uses of drugs, especially for medical and scientific needs, cannot be suppressed. Apparently, it is a ques tion of determining the vvorld requirements of drugs for such legiti mate uses, and of producing and manufacturing them accordingly. Owing to their multifarious medical uses in various parts of the world, it proves to be almost impossible to determine exactly the amount of drugs required for legitimate purposes. There is also the complicating factor that drugs are used for sociological and religious reasons, which have a long history. Not only arc the licit uses and legitimate amounts of drugs difficult to determine but also such difficulties give rise to illicit traffic in them. Yet, it is believed that a concerted international policy, coupled with national co-operation, on various facets of the related problems-namely, limitation of production and/or manufacture of drugs, restriction on cultivation of plants that may contribute to addiction-producing substances, training and rehabilitation of drug addicts, and efficient national administration-would help eradicate drug-abuse. In search of an appropriate remedy, this book has been devoted to a practical study of the problem and to exploring, in this area of international law, the relationship between the political and econ omic interests and the international economic order."

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests. Recent large-scale cases involving multinational corporations demonstrate how large commercial 'non-criminal' enterprises are being implicated in substantive overseas bribery scandals and illustrate the difficulties faced by responsible enforcement authorities in the UK and Germany. The book imports concepts from regulation theory to aid our understanding of the emerging enforcement, self-regulatory and hybrid responses to transnational corporate bribery. Lord implements a qualitative, comparative research strategy involving semi-structured interviews, participant observation and document analysis to provide empirical insights into this relatively invisible area of criminological interest. Despite significant cultural differences between the jurisdictions, this book argues that UK and German anti-corruption authorities face procedural, evidential, legal, financial and structural difficulties that are leading to convergence in prosecution policies. Although self-regulatory and hybrid mechanisms are aiding the response and gaining some level of regulation, the default position is one of accommodation by state agencies, even where the will to enforce the law is high. This book is essential reading for academics and students researching corporate and white-collar crimes and the concept of regulation more generally, as well as law enforcement agencies and international and intergovernmental organisations concerned with anti-corruption.

In diesem Buch wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Produktivitat und Aufwandswert beschrieben. Basierend auf praxisbezogenen empirischen Erhebungen wird gezeigt, dass sich Abweichungen von Grenzgrossen z. T. erheblich auf die Produktivitat auswirken. Mittels mehrerer Interaktionsdiagramme wird dieser Zusammenhang grafisch veranschaulicht. Die dadurch gewonnenen neuen Ansatze fur die Bestimmung der Produktivitatsgrenzen und -verluste konnen in der Baupraxis fur die Kalkulation, Arbeitsvorbereitung, Bauausfuhrung sowie fur das Claimmanagement herangezogen werden. Damit wird eine fundierte Bewertung von Bauablaufstorungen und Produktivitatsverlusten ermoglicht."

Kaum ein anderes Thema hat in jungster Vergangenheit fur mehr Unruhe in Rechtsprechung und Literatur gesorgt als die Haftung der Kreditwirtschaft im Zusammenhang mit der Finanzierung steuerinduzierter Immobilien- und Fondsanlagen. Das Buch erortert, analysiert und bespricht die sich in diesem Bereich stellenden Rechtsfragen wie z. B. das Hausturwiderrufsrecht, das verbundene Geschaft, die Wirksamkeit von Treuhandervollmachten, die Verletzung von Aufklarungspflichten und vieles mehr. Die Autoren haben sich dabei vorwiegend an der hochst- und obergerichtlichen Rechtsprechung orientiert. Das insbesondere fur Praktiker geeignete Buch enthalt zudem eine umfangreiche, nach Instanzen und ortlicher Zustandigkeit gegliederte Rechtsprechungsubersicht, welche es dem Leser ermoglicht, Einblick in die Judikatur "seiner" Gerichtsbarkeit zu nehmen."

Exploring artistic authorship and intellectual property in the contemporary world. If you have tattoos, who owns the rights to the imagery inked on your body? What about the photos you just shared on Instagram? And what if you are an artist, responding to the surrounding landscape of preexisting cultural forms? Most people go about their days without thinking much about intellectual property, but it shapes all aspects of contemporary life. It is a constantly moving target, articulated through a web of laws that are different from country to country, sometimes contradictory, often contested. Some protections are necessary-not only to benefit creators and inventors but also to support activities that contribute to the culture at large-yet overly broad ownership rights stifle innovation. Is It Ours? takes a fresh look at issues of artistic expression and creative protection as they relate to contemporary law. Exploring intellectual property, particularly copyrights, Martha Buskirk draws connections between current challenges and early debates about how something intangible could be defined as property. She examines bonds between artist and artwork, including the ways that artists or their heirs retain control over time. The text engages with fundamental questions about the interplay between authorship and ownership and the degree to which all expressions and inventions develop in response to innovations by others. Most importantly, this book argues for the necessity of sustaining a vital cultural commons.