Meessen / Bungenberg / Puttler Economic Law as an Economic Good

Its Rule Function and its Tool Function in the Competition of Systems
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-86653-858-0
Verlag: Otto Schmidt
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Kein

E-Book, Englisch, 433 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meessen, Karl M.

Bungenberg, Marc

Puttler, Adelheid

Meessen, Karl M

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Währungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;6
2;Table of Contents;8
3;Economic Law as an Economic Good: Its Rule Function and its Tool Function in the Competition of Systems;14
4;The Theory of Regulatory Competition and Competition Law;38
5;Economic Law Between Harmonization and Competition: The Law & Economics Approach;56
6;Economic Constitution, the Constitution of Politics and Interjurisdictional Competition;72
7;Assessing the Impact of Economic Law;76
8;The Fallacy of Cultivating the Home Turf: A Business Perspective;86
9;Economic Law as an Economic Good: Reflections of a European Judge;102
10;The Notion of Economic Law and Regulatory Competition;114
11;Public Economic Law as the Law of Market Regulation;126
12;Competition in the Private Enforcement of Regulatory Law;140
13;Enforcing Contractual Claims: From Schmitthoff to Investment Arbitration;150
14;Dealing with Foreign Governments;160
15;Selecting Locations for Investment;164
16;The Competition of Systems in the Market for Listings;178
17;Non-U.S. Clients’ Reactions to Sarbanes Oxley;198
18;The Competition of International Financial Centres and the Role of Law;204
19;The Territorial Dimension of Intellectual Property Law;224
20;Patent Law as an Investment Factor?;232
21;Worldwide Trademark Management;244
22;Competition as a WTO subject;254
23;Leniency in the ECN Framework of Parallel Competences;280
24;Exporting Competition Policy: From Soft Pressures to Shared Values;290
25;Where Trade Policy Stands Today;302
26;The Impact of Amicus Curiae Briefs in the Settlement of Trade and Investment Disputes;312
27;The Constitutionalism of International Economic Law;328
28;Intra-EU Systems Competition;348
29;Competition in and from the Harmonization of Private International Law;364
30;The European Constitution and Interjurisdictional Competition;380
31;Environmental Harmonization in the SADC Region: An Acute Case of Asymmetry;396
32;Harmonization of Business Law in the Maghreb: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities;410
33;Index;426