Hart Publishing TEXTBOOKS 2018 CONTENTS Banking & Financial Law 2 International Economic & Trade Law 17 Company, Corporate & Commercial Law 3 International Investment Law 18 Comparative Law 3 IT & Technology Law 18 Competition Law 4 Labour & Discrimination Law 19 Constitutional Law 5-6 Law & Humanities 19 Consumer Law 7 Legal Ethics 20 Contract, Tort & Restitution Law 7-9 Legal Philosophy 20 Criminal Law & Criminology 10 Media Law 21 Environmental Law 11-12 Medical Law & Ethics 21 European Law 12-13 Private International Law 22 Family Law 13 Property Law 23 Gender & the Law 14 Public International Law 23-25 General Law 14-15 Socio-Legal Studies 26 Human Rights Law 15-16 Sports Law 26 Insurance Law 16 Tax Law 27 Intellectual Property Law 17 Good Books for Law Students Textbook_Catalogue2018.indd 1 19/04/2018 11:07:27 Banking & Financial Law SECOND EDITION SECOND EDITION European Capital Markets Law Corporate Finance Law Edited by Rüdiger Veil Principles and Policy European capital markets law has developed Louise Gullifer and Jennifer Payne rapidly in recent years. The former directives The second edition of this acclaimed book have been replaced by regulations and continues to provide a discussion of key numerous implementing legal acts aimed at theoretical and policy issues in corporate ensuring a level playing field across the EU. finance law. Fully updated, it reflects The financial crisis has given further impetus developments in the law and the markets in the to the development of a European supervisory continuing aftermath of the Global Financial structure. This book systematises the European Crisis. One of its distinctive features is that it law and examines the underlying concepts gives equal coverage to both the equity and from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective. debt sides of corporate finance law, and seeks, where possible, to compare National experiences in selected Member States – Austria, France, Germany, the two. This book covers a broad range of topics regarding the debt and Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom – are also explored. equity-raising choices of companies of all sizes, from SMEs to the largest The first chapter deals with the foundations of capital markets law in publicly traded enterprises, and the mechanisms by which those providing Europe, the second explains the basics, and the third examines the regime capital are protected. Each chapter analyses the present law critically so as on market abuse. Chapter four explores the disclosure system and chapter to enable the reader to understand the difficulties, risks and tensions in this five the roles of intermediaries, such as financial analysts, rating agencies area of law, and the attempts made by the legislature and the courts, as well and proxy advisers. Short selling and high frequency trading is described as the parties involved, to deal with them. This book will be of interest to in chapter six. Chapter seven deals with financial services and chapter practitioners, academics and students engaged in the practice and study of eight explains compliance and corporate governance in investment firms. corporate finance law. Chapter nine illustrates the regulation of benchmarks. Finally, chapter Louise Gullifer is Professor of Commercial Law and Jennifer Payne is ten deals with public takeovers. Throughout the book emphasis is placed Professor of Corporate Finance Law, both at the University of Oxford. on legal practice, and frequent reference is made to the key decisions of supervisory authorities and courts. Oct 2015 9781849466004 936pp Pbk RSP: £50 Rüdiger Veil is a professor at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg and director of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law. Apr 2017 9781782256526 848pp Pbk RSP: £50 SECOND EDITION An Introduction to the Law on Financial Investment Iain G Macneil Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, the world of financial investment has experienced an unprecedented boom followed by a spectacular bust. Significant changes have been proposed and in some cases implemented in areas such as the structure of regulation, the organisation of markets, supervision of market participants and the protection of consumers. The second edition takes account of these developments, integrating them into an analytical framework that enables the reader to develop a critical overview of the role of general legal rules and specialised systems of regulation in financial investment. The framework focuses on the role of contract, trusts and regulation as the primary legal influences for financial investment. The first part explores the relationship between investment, law and regulation. The second part examines the nature of investments and investors, both professional and private. The third part discusses the central role of corporate finance and corporate governance in linking investors with enterprises that require external capital. The fourth part examines the nature, operation and regulation of markets and the participants that support the functioning of the markets. The objective remains to provide a broadly-based and critical account of the role of law in financial investment. Iain G MacNeil is the Alexander Stone Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow. Jan 2012 9781849460507 542pp Pbk RSP: £45 2 Textbook_Catalogue2018.indd 2 19/04/2018 11:07:27 Company, Corporate & Commercial Law SECOND EDITION International Business Law Comparative Company Law Emerging Fields of Regulation A Case-Based Approach Mark Fenwick and Stefan Wrbka Edited by Mathias Siems This book provides an accessible introduction and David Cabrelli to selected new issues in transnational law, and connects them to existing theoretical As attention moves rapidly towards comparative debates on transnational business regulation. approaches, the research and teaching of More specifically, (i) it introduces the argument company law has somehow lagged behind. The about the evolving character of contemporary overall purpose of this book is therefore to fill international business regulation; (ii) it provides a gap in the literature by identifying whether an overview of some of the main fields of law that conceptual differences between countries are currently important for firms that operate exist. Rather than concentrate on whether the across borders; and (iii) it sets out an interpretive institutional structure of the corporation varies across jurisdictions, the framework for making sense of disparate developments occurring across objective of this book will be pursued by focusing on specific cases and a number of jurisdictions, among which are the form of regulation and how different countries might treat each of these cases. The book also has style of enforcement, issues of legal certainty, and behavioural aspects of a public policy dimension, because the existence or absence of differences regulation. may lead to the question of whether formal harmonisation of company law is necessary. This timely work offers a novel perspective on transnational business law and examines a range of legal issues that preoccupy companies operating The book covers 12 legal systems from different legal traditions and from transnationally. This book is intended not only for law students looking for different parts of the world (though with a special emphasis on European an introduction, overview or commentary on the contemporary state of countries). In alphabetical order, those countries are: Finland, France, international business law, but also for anyone looking for an introduction Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, to the regulation of business in a global, inter-connected economy. the UK, and the US. All of these jurisdictions are subjected to scrutiny by deploying a comparative case-based study. On the basis of these case Mark Fenwick is Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu solutions, various conclusions are reached, some of which challenge University, Japan. established orthodoxies in the field of comparative company law. Stefan Wrbka is Unit Head and Academic Coordinator, Business Law at the University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication, Mathias Siems is a Professor of Commercial Law at Durham University. Vienna. David Cabrelli is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Edinburgh. Jun 2018 9781509918058 192pp Pbk RSP: £29.99 Oct 2018 9781509909360 512pp Pbk RSP: £42.99 Comparative Law A New Introduction to An Introduction to Comparative Comparative Law Law Theory and Method Jaakko Husa Geoffrey Samuel This thought-provoking introduction to the study This short book on comparative law theory of comparative law provides in-depth analyses and method is designed primarily for of all major comparative methodologies and postgraduate research students whose work theories and serves as a common sense guide involves comparison between legal systems. to the study of foreign legal systems. It is written It is, accordingly, a book on research methods, in a lively and accessible style and will prove although it will also be of relevance to all indispensable reading to students of the subject. students (undergraduate and postgraduate) It also contains much that will be of interest taking courses in comparative law and to to comparative law scholars, offering novel academics entering the field of comparison. The insights into commonplace methodological and substance of the book has been developed over theoretical questions and making a significant contribution