Key Features:

• Article-by-article analysis of the EU regulatory framework of ESG ratings providers and green investments
• Surveys the most salient issues related to the role of the ESG ratings providers in the financial market
• Outlines the loopholes of EU regulation on ESG ratings and advances suggestions for enhancing the current regulatory system
• Evaluates the operation of ESG ratings providers in the EU and their transparency and disclosure, including misleading reports

This Commentary is an invaluable resource for practitioners and legal professionals in law firms, global rating firms, commercial and investment banks, international financial institutions, and prudential regulatory agencies. It is also an essential point of reference for scholars and students researching law and the economic aspects of sustainable and green finance.

Written by leading experts, the chapters provide novel coverage of significant and recurrent issues regarding legal agents and intermediaries in a general context, such as policy underpinnings and authority and boundaries. Contributors situate legal agency as a central orienting point to examine a range of intermediaries within distinct markets including securities, insurance and visual art. Incorporating analyses of recent and leading cases, they identify similarities and differences between various approaches. They investigate the policy considerations underlying legal doctrines relating to agency and intermediaries, and address liability for wrongs committed by agents.

This Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation is a crucial resource for academics, researchers and students specializing in private and commercial law, as well as corporate law and governance, and business law. Lawyers and litigators in commercial practice and specialists in securities and visual art will also benefit from its valuable insights.

Chapters address topics including the determination of FRAND royalty rates nationally and globally, injunctions on FRAND-encumbered patents, and antitrust and competition law considerations. Authors explore cross-jurisdictional mechanisms such as anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunctions and interim licenses, and analyze the background, holding, and implications of each case in detail, forming connections across cases, topics, and geographies. Contributions from leading legal academics can be read as stand-alone case analyses or as part of a wider tapestry of decisions.

Academics and students of competition and antitrust law, and intellectual property litigation will benefit from this book's valuable insights. It is also an essential resource for legal practitioners in patent litigation and international arbitration, in-house legal counsel and technology licensing personnel at technology companies, as well as those working at national patent offices and economic development agencies.

Key Features:

• Positions the Hague System in the context of relevant international treaties and conventions
• Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of international versus national design registrations
• Explains the concepts and definitions of each article to construct an extensive review of the fundamental components of the Agreement
• Reflects the sole applicability (since 1 January 2025) of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs of July 2, 1999 (the Geneva Act) for design applications
• Addresses specific topics such as illustrations of design filings, national peculiarities of important Contracting Parties, and protection of Graphical User Interfaces

Delivering useful strategies for IP practitioners, this Commentary is a valuable resource for agents, patent attorneys and those specializing in European and IP law. Furthering both academic understanding and real-world applications, it is also of interest to law scholars and students, as well as product designers who aim to protect their designs internationally.

Leading experts investigate the role of different stakeholders within company organisations, namely employees, business partners, customers and clients, and those within the local community. They explore the difference in regulatory frameworks that govern the engagement of these groups, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of each. Chapters cover key topics, including worker influence and representation, worker share schemes, the consultation of stakeholders on sustainability measures, debtholder influence, and stakeholders in the data economy. Looking ahead, this book evaluates the prospects for future reforms to corporate law in relation to stakeholders.

Stakeholder Engagement in European Companies is a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in understanding how corporate governance is affected by stakeholder engagement. This book will greatly benefit those in the fields of corporate law, company and insolvency law, and European law.

This innovative book explores the world of 3D printing from the perspective of intellectual property law, tackling theory and practice.

As 3D printing digitises tangibles and equips individual users with access to design and manufacturing tools, it also raises several pressing legal and policy issues. Does the IP framework - largely designed in the analogue age - adequately regulate the operation of the technology? How should the law respond to piracy in a digital environment where copying is the norm, not the exception? What are the community's experiences and views regarding IP? Is the law actually a concern?

To fully address these questions, the book begins with a contextual overview of 3D printing's history and broader socio-economic impact. It explains why the 'desktop' side of the technology is likely to be especially problematic when it comes to IP law and highlights key areas of concern. Drawing on its rich empirical data featuring world-leading experts, engineers, lawyers and users, it offers illuminating insights into the experiences and perspectives of stakeholders before finally considering potential regulatory responses.

Original and forward-looking, this book is essential reading for academics, practitioners, 3D printing users and any reader interested in the rapidly evolving field of law and technology.

Thomas Cotter - one of the world's leading experts on remedies for the infringement of IP rights - provides a detailed account of how courts within the U.S., the EU, Asia, and the Commonwealth of Nations address issues such as the standards for awarding preliminary and permanent injunctions; the calculation of lost profits and reasonable royalties; and the availability of other forms of relief including disgorgement of the infringer's profits, punitive and statutory damages, and criminal penalties. Up-to-date and comparative in scope, the book also calls attention to recent developments including global FRAND disputes, the Unified Patent Court, awards of extraterritorial damages, and more.

Remedies in Intellectual Property Law is an essential resource for students and academics with an interest in IP law and litigation. It also provides a valuable resource for lawyers and clients involved in IP disputes, as well as for judges and policymakers tasked with applying, adapting, or extending existing law to new developments in technology, commerce, the arts, and entertainment.

Many attempts have been made to reduce the harms caused by business and to make companies become socially responsible. This book approaches the subject from a new perspective arguing that reflexive law offers the best means to align the interests of large companies with those of society and that recent developments in European company law fit a reflexive model.

A reflexive company law, rather than trying to directly regulate companies, aims to affect internal decision-making processes to make companies responsive to outside interests and prevent them from operating as closed systems singularly focused on shareholder value. In this vein, the EU has recently imposed new obligations on companies to develop corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence processes as part of its objective to create a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.

This book presents an argument for how the 'societal company' - a company that has an internal culture of transnational responsibility to do no harm but that retains the autonomy necessary to be economically productive - can be established through reflexive law. The book will appeal to researchers, policy makers and lawyers interested in corporate sustainability, regulatory theory, company law and EU law.

With contributions selected from the last fifteen years of his life, this second volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's interviews and debates includes hard-to-find and previously untranslated material.

Taking place between 1984 and 1997 they follow in the wake of Lyotard's most notable publications, including The Postmodern Condition (1979) and The Differend (1983). Whilst continuing to contest and reconfigure the claims of these writings, Lyotard and his interlocutors help to contextualise the questions raised within the fields of art, philosophy, literature and politics.

Discussions in Paris and London include contributions from thinkers such as Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Alain Badiou whilst significant interviews elsewhere in Europe, North and South America elucidate the consequences of the varied reception given to his work. The importance of Kant, Freud and Wittgenstein is readily apparent as are the themes now closely associated with Lyotard: the inhuman, infancy and resistance to 'the system'.

These interviews and debates record an evident delight in the activity of thinking which is not about rhetorical flourish or rehashing staid assumptions but of grappling with some of the most important questions confronting thought today.