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.

Key Features:

• Addresses the diverse IP portfolios of sporting bodies
• Analyses personality rights development in relation to athletes' personal brands
• Covers practical examples of contemporary issues affecting the intersection of sports and IP law
• Considers legislative responses to unfair competition, including ambush marketing by non-sponsors
• Investigates copyright protection of broadcasts to combat digital piracy as well as territorial licensing exclusivity and market integration principles in global broadcasting

Intellectual Property Law and Sports is an essential resource for legal practitioners interested in the application of IP in sporting contexts, as well as sports managers and agents. It is also vital for students and scholars in IP and sports law, sports management, and entertainment law.

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.

This volume explores in detail the use of the doctrine of good faith in the common law when interpreting contracts and resolving disputes.

Building on the findings of Good Faith and Relational Contracts (Hart, 2024) the book discusses the implications of relational contract theory and good faith for issues such as liquidated damages clauses, discretion to terminate a contract, contract forfeiture, employment contracts and contractual remedies. The author discusses the potential for good faith to unite a number of currently disparate contract law and equitable principles into a coherent framework, providing an opportunity to question and jettison some archaic aspects of existing doctrine that are no longer defensible.

Ambitious and thoughtful, this is a significant statement on the role of good faith in private law.

Following the establishment of the Unified Patent Court in 2023, the need for a universal method for interpreting the morality clause has become more evident. Through interdisciplinary and legal theoretical analysis, this book searches for a standardised mechanism for interpreting the morality exception to be applied by both national and supranational patent authorities. Wisniowska revisits principles of legal theory and combines them with analysis of other areas of private law equally familiar with exceptions and limitations invoking immorality. Drawing on rules of statutory interpretation, the author proposes a method of 'systemic functionalism' that considers morality as a legal term, tailored to the needs of supranational patent authorities. The concluding chapter provides a guide to the new method's operation through a series of case studies based on recent innovations in the field of biotechnology.

Morality in the Unitary Patent System is an essential resource for students and academics of intellectual property law, legal theory, and European law. It also serves as a valuable reference for legal professionals with a major presence in patent litigations.

This book rigorously debates the notion of the person, a fundamental concept which underpins national private law orders worldwide.

In the 20th century, the unity of the person came under pressure - firstly through the rise of labour law and then secondly (post-World War II) through consumer law. The book moves this debate on, exploring the ongoing fragmentation of the concept of the person and the unique challenges that this gives rise to, and suggesting how this might impact on the future of private law. The book asks three questions:

*are the 'subject' of the 19th-century Codes or the 'person' of 20th-century constitutions useful categories of reference for the person?

*could fundamental rights, currently central to the notion of the person, be replaced by forms of the 'impersonal'?

*how, and why, should subjectivities be rethought in the age of infocracy and autocracies?

Thought-provoking and paradigm-shifting, this is a fascinating examination of the bedrock of private law.

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 Elgar Advanced Introduction provides key insights into family law in the US. In the midst of consequential changes wrought by the US Supreme Court, this book traces the evolution of the field from its origins in the law of domestic relations to the more modern regime of family law.

Key features include:

• Integrates state law, federal law, legal scholarship, and literature from other disciplines.
• Identifies the regulation of sex and the policy of keeping dependency private as family law's principal enduring features.
• Surveys different topics in family law including: marriage, nonmarriage, and dissolution; pregnancy; parentage; and children.
• Reviews the impact of the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on all of family law in the US and looks ahead to the future of family law.

Advanced Introduction to Family Law in the US is a valuable resource for teaching and learning family law, and also provides a sophisticated entry point for students and academics in gender studies and legal studies.

Based on extensive, largely unpublished material by and about Sartre from archives across Europe, this book explores Sartre's lifelong relationship with Italy, its culture, society and, above all, its intellectual left.

Starting with his dawning awareness of politics as foremost a moral responsibility during his first tourist trips to Naples in the 1930s and the poverty he encountered there, Italy, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Europe's Cold War then examines the relationships Sartre forged with a number of Italian liberal, leftist and communist intellectuals after the war. Not only did they immediately draw him into debates over the ethical crisis that they held responsible for fascism, the war, and now, Europe's Cold War. Several of them became lifelong friends of his, as well as collaborators in a number of efforts to address that moral crisis in Italy and, by the late 1950s, in Eastern Europe. Reconstructing the networks they established through cultural organizations they founded themselves, Nancy Jachec traces how Sartre and his ideas were brought into the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia in pursuit of a democratic socialism.

Using private correspondence, press reports, memoirs, embassy dispatches, government committee minutes, and surveillance and intelligence reports from Eastern and Western sources, this book reconstructs Sartre's activities and the impact they had in a way that he did not foresee. While his many discussions with his Italian peers on the theme of political morality led him to support the New Left in spite of its organizational problems, in Poland and Czechoslovakia his work was taken in a very different direction, where intellectuals would go on to assume real political responsibility.

Leading experts investigate three key areas: corporate law, international investment law, and public international law. They identify how each of these fields individually and collectively contribute to enabling sustainability harms, outlining how the convergence of these three areas creates a structural framework that permits and legitimizes corporate misconduct. Presenting both a diagnosis and pathways for reform, this book advocates for corporate accountability and urges a rethinking of law's role in shaping a just and sustainable global economy.

Scholars and students in the fields of human rights, corporate law and public international law will benefit from this book's insights. Providing actionable proposals for rethinking and reforming business models, this book is also a crucial reference for policymakers, legal practitioners, ESG professionals, and management consultants.

This book brings together leading Irish phenomenologists to explore how Ireland's geography, history, and cultural traditions shape phenomenological inquiry.
Taking a phenomenological approach, this book weaves together investigations into Ireland's island geography, traditions of poetry and hospitality, colonial traumas, and even contemporary issues such as autism. It also situates Irish thought within a broader philosophical heritage from John Scotus Eriugena to contemporary debates on phenomenology and metaphysics. It traces a material history of literary inscription from the ancient Ogham script to the digital age. These contributions offer deep insights into both Ireland itself and the distinctive ways phenomenology has developed through its cultural and historical landscape.

This book examines the English and German version of the numerus clausus principle which holds that there is a closed list of permitted property rights.

It challenges recent views that the principle renders property law inflexible and unable to accommodate social and economic changes. Relying on a novel approach combining property theory and comparative research of English and German law, it argues that the restrictions the principle imposes on the creation of new property types actually does accommodate social changes through a process of 'functional transformation' of the existing property rights.

This is a fascinating, unique study, that makes a rigorous, original contribution to property law theory.

Experts in the field provide ethnographic examples to explore contemporary and pioneering works in cultural and social economic analysis, looking ahead to the future of economic anthropology. Building on the history of the discipline, the Encyclopedia captures the latest concepts and examines how they can be used to develop new ways of thinking about the economy.

Key Features:

• Highlights how conflict in society is related to capitalism, markets, and values
• Showcases new lines of inquiry through innovative studies from diverse scholarly and geographical areas
• Analyzes the relationship between theory and method, shedding light on the function of the economy as part of society and culture
• 57 entries covering varied themes including energy, climate finance, responsible innovation, entrepreneurship, international development, and gender

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology is a vital reference for scholars and students of anthropology, social sciences, and economic psychology. It is also a beneficial resource for policymakers and practitioners in economics and finance.