As a consequence of the European integration process, EU member states increasingly have to cooperate with foreign authorities, for instance to serve a claim, to execute a judgment or to arrest a suspect. These procedures necessitate firstly the knowledge of the respective parts of the foreign law and secondly communication with the authorities involved in the given case. The large number of di...

This review aims at comparing the fisheries management systems existing in New Zealand and in the European Union. The involvement of stakeholders at all stages of the management process is generally more transparent and better established in New Zealand than in the EU. Both systems aim at achieving an adequate balance between sustainability and utilisation and consider the precautionary approac...

All legal transplants are problematic, constitutional transplants especially so. And constitutional transplants for federal systems are among the most problematic of all. Still, especially in light of the apparent derailing of the EU’s Draft Constitutional Treaty, the question of the relevance of EU constitution-making for constitution-making in federal-style systems elsewhere seems nothing les...

In recent years, a large number of countries have made reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) mandatory. The capital-market effects of this change have been extensively studied, but their sources are not yet well understood and still heavily debated. This paper presents new evidence that aims to distinguish between several potential explanations for these capital-mar...

based on a general rule in civil liability, external causes limits or excludes the liability of defendant. however, the question is that whether it is possible to applied the general rule when there are compulsory liability insurances? this paper is intended to study the subject-matter regarding traffic accidents (as one of the anticipated cases of compulsory insurances) in iranian and french l...