Product Description: For over a century states have co-operated in providing evidence for use in civil trials in other countries. The growth of international crimes such as drug-trafficking, money-laundering, terrorism, and insider-trading now pose a substantial threat to the economies and stabilities of states, and governments and international organizations have been quick to expand past civil law experience into a variety of responses - both diplomatic and institutional - to the new international crimes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For over a century states have co-operated in providing evidence for use in civil trials in other countries. The growth of international crimes such as drug-trafficking, money-laundering, terrorism, and insider-trading now pose a substantial threat to the economies and stability of states, and governments and international organizations have been quick to expand past experience into a variety of responses - both diplomatic and institutional - to the new international crimes...read more

Product Description: Taking extraterritoriality, the traditional touchstone for the state-centered allocation of transnational legal authority, as its conceptual starting point the book traces the evolution of transnational legal authority in the course of globalization...read more

Product Description: The Law of Extradition and Mutual Assistance provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the laws covering the extradition arrangements between the UK and other states, as well as international mutual assistance. Since the first edition was published by Cameron May in 2002, the Extradition Act 1989 and the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 have been repealed and replaced by the Extradition Act 2003 and the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003, respectively, and international confiscation is now dealt with under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002...read more

Product Description: Discusses judicial control of foreign evidence in comparative perspective

Product Description: The ALI (American Law Institute) and UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) are preeminent organizations working together toward the clarification and advancement of the procedural rules of law. Recognizing the need for a “universal” set of procedures that would transcend national jurisdictional rules and facilitate the resolution of disputes arising from transnational commercial transactions, Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure was launched to create a set of procedural rules and principles that would be adopted globally...read more

Contains the principal treaties concerning litigation and arbitration, as well as selected American and foreign statutes relating to jurisdiction of courts, recognition of judgments, discovery and secrecy, and claims against foreign sovereigns. Documents range from excerpts of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Act, and the Federal Arbitration Act, to rules of various arbitral institutions, excerpts from British statutes and rules dealing with jurisdiction and judgments, and the confidential documents laws of the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland. Prepared for use with Lowenfield's International Litigation and Arbitration, but may also be used with other course materials.

Product Description: This two-volume work drawn up by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference constitutes a Guide to Best Practice amongst Central Authorities in dealing with international child abduction cases in the UK. The Guide takes into account the experience, resources and caseload of both new and established Central Authorities...read more

Product Description: Professor Andreas Lowenfeld’s Conference on the Hague Convention, brought together, as presenters and participants, some of the today’s most knowledgeable theorists and practitioners on international jurisdictional issues, including professors at top U...read more

Product Description: The incidence of international tax evasion and tax avoidance is growing rapidly, due in great part to the enormous increase in electronic trading. Although international tax harmonization – particularly in the European Community legal system – has made great strides, it has failed to keep pace with the even more rapid and vigorous maneuvers of tax evaders (unlawful) and tax avoiders (lawful) as they engender ever more massive losses of revenue...read more

Product Description: International judicial assistance, which is reasonably well settled in criminal law, is still finding its way in civil matters. Here is a very useful survey of problems in this area, describing how they are being handled in various jurisdictions worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bringing proceedings and obtaining and enforcing judgements is not an easy process under any circumstances, but this is further complicated if the defendant is a foreign national or resides abroad. For reasons of state sovereignty and international relations, defendants in foreign states--whether citizens of business ventures--cannot be proceeded against in the same way as a country's own nationals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Conflict of Laws in Italy translates the new Italian Conflict of Laws statute, providing a highly practical resource for common law attorneys. Rather than just translating the Italian words and the civil law concepts into English words, the authors have translated the text into common law language and legal syntax...read more

Product Description: This volume contains the basic international documents relating to the conditions under which one country will provide information, evidence and other forms of assistance to another in the investigation and prosecution of criminal offences and in countering malpractice in the world's securities and futures markets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Free trade agreements, the growing expansion of international business, open-border politics--each in its own way offers major opportunities for world trade and new hope for individuals seeking to better their standard of living. But these new opportunities may come with challenges...read more