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Private International Law: An Appropriate Means to Regulate Transnational Employment in the European Union?

open access: yes, 2014
The regulation of transnational employment in the European Union operates at the crossroads between private international law and internal market rules. The private international law rules are currently laid down in the Rome I Regulation. This regulation
Aukje A. H. van Hoek
semanticscholar   +1 more source

International patent protection: Time for a fully EU functioning supra-national patent mechanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Larger industrial companies have become increasingly global in their functions and aspirations. With regard to patents, it is increasingly common for a multinational company to face alleged infringing acts committed by the same competitor in several ...
Loftus, D
core   +1 more source

Engaging student voice in Rwandan secondary schools: Understanding factors supporting learning in STEM and future aspirations

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study engages student voice in Rwandan secondary schools as a mechanism for understanding factors influencing learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects, attitudes towards learning these disciplines and pupils' future aspirations.
Aurora Lixinhao Gao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Private International Law in Contemporary Society: Global Governance as a Challenge

open access: yes, 2014
The private ordering and public regulation of private international law situations has never been an easy task, and it is one to which legislatures generally have not paid a lot of attention. However, our ‘open societies’ do no longer allow for this lack
L. C. Piñeiro, X. Kramer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

Private security companies and the state monopoly on violence: A case of norm change? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The proliferation of private security companies has received increasing public and academic attention in recent years. From the involvement of private security firms in Sierra Leone and Angola to the capture and killing of Blackwater security contractors
Krahmann, E
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Environmental Violation and Cost of Equity Capital—Evidence From Europe

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the association between environmental violations and the cost of equity capital. We posit that firms that breach environmental compliance introduce firm‐specific risks and, consequently, elevate the costs associated with equity capital.
Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, Yimei Man
wiley   +1 more source

Reflexive transnational law : the privatisation of civil law and the civilisation of private law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The author examines the emergence of a transnational private law in alternative dispute resolution bodies and private norm formulating agencies from a reflexive law perspective. After introducing the concept of reflexive law he applies the idea of law as
Calliess, Gralf-Peter
core  

Models, Guidelines and Frameworks for Sustainable Management: A Bibliometric Analysis From the Perspective of Interdisciplinarity

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ongoing challenges of climate change, ecosystem degradation and demand for natural resources make sustainability a global priority. Models, guidelines and frameworks are particularly valuable in the field of management as they help to solve problems. This study aims to explore them from an interdisciplinary perspective, including a concern
Arnaldo Pinheiro Costa Gaio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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