Jürgen Basedow Livres

Der Band enthält Beiträge zur 10. Wissenschaftstagung, die der Bund der Versicherten am 16. und 17. Juni 2000 als Gast der Universität Leuven (Belgien) veranstaltete. Mit der Wahl des Veranstaltungsortes mitten im Herzen Europas, in unmittelbarer Nähe zur heimlichen europäischen Hauptstadt Brüssel, wollte der Bund der Versicherten ein Zeichen für ein modernes Europäisches Privatisierungsrecht setzen.

In May 2005, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs hosted a conference on marine pollution at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. This event brought together academics and practitioners to discuss recent developments from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. The collected papers explore ecological aspects, international efforts to prevent and combat marine pollution through various institutions and regulations, and the compensation for losses incurred despite these efforts. This volume encapsulates the diversity of topics addressed during the conference, reflecting the ongoing research and policy discussions within the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs. The editors express gratitude for the support and assistance received, particularly from Dr. Silke Knaut and Dr. Anatol Dutta for their editorial contributions, Anna-Maria Hubert for her linguistic revisions, and Ingeborg Stahl for preparing the manuscript. Hamburg, April 2007 Jürgen Basedow/Ulrich Magnus Contents Contributors........................................................................................................... IX Welcome Address and Introduction Marine Pollution as a Topic of Research and Policy Jürgen Basedow ......................................................................................................1

On January 1, 2007, the new Japanese 'Act on General Rules for Application of Laws' entered into force replacing the statute of 1898. This major reform finds its parallels in the current efforts of the European Union to create a modern private international law regime for its member states. This volume presents the first comprehensive analysis of the new Japanese private international law available in any western language and contrasts it with the corresponding European developments. For better understanding, English translations of the Japanese statutes have been added. Contributors: Jürgen Basedow, Trevor C Hartley, Masato Dogauchi, Hironori Wanami, Yuko Nishitani, Catherine Kessedjian, Fausto Pocar, Aki Kitazawa, Eva-Maria Kieninger, Dai Yokomizo, Sylvaine Poillot-Peruzzetto, Daniel Zimmer, Toshiyuki Kono, Thomas Kadner Graziano, Marc Fallon, Yasuhiro Okuda, Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Alegría Borrás, Yoshihisa Hayakawa, Dieter Martiny

By their very nature, Special Economic Zones encompass various elements studied in the academic disciplines of economics, political science and law. While their objectives are determined by economics, and their structures, implications and limits by law, their implementation requires a certain combination and cooperation of political forces, something which has been the subject of political science enquiries. A conference held at Kyushu University in Fukuoka convened scholars from all these disciplines to put Special Economic Zones into perspective. The papers presented highlighted functions and structures, historical aspects, the political dimension and foreign equivalents of deregulation, the interplay of such zones, and constitutional considerations. Freedom of contract and competition law, plus the effects that these economy-boosting tools may have on labour and innovation are also dealt with.

As lawyers we are normally interested in various substantive areas of law; and as comparative lawyers we are interested in finding out about the differences and similarities between national legal systems. But from time to time we should also reflect on how we think and operate, and look at basic questions of legal methodology - both for the sake of understanding better what we do as lawyers immersed in our own legal systems and as lawyers attempting to assess and comprehend how foreign legal systems work. The nine essays in this volume are devoted to the topics of law-making today (with a focus on Japan, Turkey and Russia), judicial decision-making today (with a focus on England and Wales, Switzerland and Argentina), and legal scholarship today (with a focus on the United States, France and South Africa); and they thus revolve around the three protagonists of legal development: legislators, judges and professors.

Collective labour law is, for the most part, national law. It is often the result of social struggle and political compromise occurring in the national context. Unlike other fields of private law, it has not been the object of legal harmonisation, at either international or European levels. However, as national frontiers progressively open up for goods and services, collective labour law has become increasingly exposed to international and supranational law. This book contains the papers presented at an international conference held at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in 2014. The authors look, from a comparative perspective, at current developments in the fields of collective bargaining and employee participation in several European countries and in China. They analyse the extent to which differences between the national legal systems still prevail and whether common features are about to emerge.

Over the last decades, private international law has become the target of intense codification efforts. Inspired by the stimulating initiatives taken by some European countries, by the Brussels Convention and the Rome Convention, numerous countries in other regions of the world started to enact comprehensive legislation in the field. Among them are Taiwan and mainland China. Both adopted statutes on private international law in 2010. In light of the rising significance of the mutual economic and societal relations between the jurisdictions involved and of the legal innovations laid down in the new instruments, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law convened scholars to present the conflict rules adopted in Europe, in mainland China and in Taiwan across a whole range of private law subjects. This book collects the papers of the conference and presents them to the public, together with English translations of the acts of Taiwan and mainland China.

In 2007, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs together with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), both based in Hamburg, decided to establish an annual lecture series, the "Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs" - giving distinguished scholars and practitioners the opportunity to present and discuss recent developments in this field. The present volume - the third in the series - collects the lectures held between 2011 and 2013 inter alia by Andrew Dickinson, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Bevan Marten, Andreas Maurer, Irini Papanicolopulu, Časlav Pejovic, Juan L. Pulido, Andrés Recalde Castells, Thomas J. Schoenbaum and Rüdiger Wolfrum.

In 2007, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs together with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), both based in Hamburg, decided to establish an annual lecture series, the „Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs“ - giving distinguished scholars and practitioners the opportunity to present and discuss recent developments in this field. The present volume - the second in the series - collects eight of the lectures held in 2009 and 2010 by David Joseph Attard, Lucius Caflisch, Beate Czerwenka, Lars Gorton, Francesco Munari, Kyriaki Noussia, Peter Wetterstein and Wolfgang Wurmnest.