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life sciences - environment - maritime - information technology - market regulation - socio-legal studies

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New hard back book just published

SHIPPING, LAW AND THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Emerging challenges for the Law of the Sea - legal implications and liabilities


Editors: Richard Caddell, Rhidian Thomas


Publication date: April 2013
Extent: 358 pp
ISBN: 978-0-9539403-9-4
PRICE: £138.00

To order: email: ltp@lawtext.com

This book brings together detailed papers on how the international Law of the Sea is evolving due to developing technologies, modern shipping and exploitation of marine resources.
Conflicting uses of the oceans, threats to the marine environment, and new navigational controls are all examined by experts in the fields of the law of salvage, Arctic passage, piracy, carbon capture and storage, wind farm development and the control of oil pollution in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Contributors:

Professor Tore Henriksen, Dr Edwin Egede, Professor Robin Churchill, Dr Richard Caddell,
Dr Rosalie Balkin, Professor D Rhidian Thomas, Hugh Shaw, Greg Gordon,
Professor M N Tsimplis, Dr Stefan Schmitz, Dr Susanna Much, Professor Alexander Proelss,
Professor Tullio Scovazzi, Judge Rüdiger Wolfrum

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ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY - LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE

This journal has a new Editorial team and will have wider coverage of developments in international environmental law.

Editor: PROFESSOR DUNCAN FRENCH Head of Lincoln Law School and Professor of International Law, University of Lincoln
Assistant Editor: DR OLE W PEDERSEN Law School, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

See the publications page for the Current Issue, the first Editorial, a comment on UNFCCC COP-18 and more details


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BIO-SCIENCE LAW REVIEW
Recent European Developments Regarding Patents Extensions (SPCs and Paediatric Extensions)
Gertjan Kuipers, Tjibbe Douma and Margot Kokke, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Amsterdam

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A NEW CONVENTION FOR THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA - THE ROTTERDAM RULES

An Analysis of
The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea


EDITED BY
PROFESSOR D RHIDIAN THOMAS

EXTENT: 432 pp Hardback
ISBN 0-9539403-3-0
PRICE: £138.00

The new Convention, known as the Rotterdam Rules and open for signature in September 2009, represents a radical attempt to establish a single uniform legal regime for the carriage of goods by sea.
THIS BOOK has been compiled specially in readiness for the occasion and as an essential aid to all those concerned to absorb the complexities of the new Convention.

Contributors include:

PROFESSOR MICHAEL F. STURLEY
CHRISTOPHER HANCOCK QC
PROFESSOR G J VAN DER ZIEL
PROFESSOR YVONNE BAATZ
PROFESSOR WILLIAM TETLEY, C.M., Q.C.

The full text of the Convention, seven other appendices of international conventions and full indexes complete this expert analysis of the new approach and its relationship with the existing international and national laws.

CLICK here to see the leaflet about this book with full list of Contents and Contributors

contact Rachel_Caldin@lawtext.com for orders

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BIO-SCIENCE LAW REVIEW
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Recent articles have included:
Discovery and Invention: Where is the Boundary Between Them and Should We Care?
Tim Roberts
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ON THE OTHER HAND: IS THIS THE LAST WORD ON PATENTING ENANTIOMERS?
H Lundbeck A/S v Generics (UK) Ltd CA
Stuart Jackson,Brian Whitehead and Richard Kempner
AdleshawGoddard
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Last stop for the Peruvian Guano Train: Disclosure in patent cases? where less can be more ? (Nichia Corp v Argos CA 19 July 2007)
Gareth MorganTaylor Wessing, London
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Patent Entitlement
Yeda Research and Development v Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
Luke Kempton and Janine Harborne Wragge & Co LLP
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Angiotech: A tale of two jurisdicitions
Camilla Smith and Shelley Blythe Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP, London
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Biosimilar Warfare: The Arrival of Generic Biopharmaceuticals - The Omnitrope Decision
Isabel Teare Linklaters London
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UTILITIES LAW REVIEW
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Recent OPINIONS have included
Opinion

Does the Competition Commission case enough about Competition
Martin Cave Warwick Business School
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BSkyB/ITV: Competition Appeal Tribunal dismisses BSkyB's Appeal
Howard Cartlidge and Dervla Broderick Olswang, London
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Legal Privilege in the EU ? is the balance right?
Akzo Nobel Chemicals
David Wood
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
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The European Court of First Instance rules in favour of compensation for illegal prohibition of a merger by the European Commission in Schneider/Legrand
Peter Alexiadis and Vassili Moussis
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

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Recent Articles have included
European Energy Markets: The Next Round
James Ashe-Taylor and Miranda Cole
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
London and Brussels

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