What´s in a name: the issue with regulatory definitions

Open Source im Sortenschutz- und Patentrecht

Open source in the context of biological innovations is a fairly new phenomenon that has, so far, received little attention from a legal perspective. Open source contracts are intended to prevent the adverse effects of intellectual property rights on biodiversity and to establish seeds as a common good. Aaron Jeschor a...

Klimaschutz im Kartellrecht

The book provides a comprehensive guide to the antitrust assessment of climate protection agreements and examines the conditions under which climate objectives can be reconciled with the requirements of competition law. It analyses the opportunities and limits of integrating climate protection into the prohibition of a...

Rethinking Global Governance

Some general principles that should govern the design of global governance are outlined, and their justifications are provided. The next section discusses the reasons—both positive and normative—for the minimal conception of global governance. In the remaining sections, implications of these ideas are drawn from a vari...

... regulation is shaped by political philosophies and imperatives; that regulators operate in politically sensitive environments; and that institutional design can both protect and expose regulatory independence.

The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were mor...

A View of Developments in Regulation: through the trees to the woods

Regulation has evolved significantly over recent decades. The quality of regulation and its implementation is critical to our wellbeing and is in the spotlight now more than ever. While significant developments have occurred, enduring challenges remain relating to the complexity of regulation, its political nature, reg...