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“Minority Shareholder Protection in China’s Top 100 Listed Companies” (2007)
Journal Article
Tomasic, R., & Neil, A. (2007). “Minority Shareholder Protection in China’s Top 100 Listed Companies”. Australian journal of Asian law, 9(1), 88-119

It has been argued that the legal environment for the protection of minority shareholders is important in determining the strength of a country’s capital markets. In China, the protection of minority shareholders is officially regarded as a major reg... Read More about “Minority Shareholder Protection in China’s Top 100 Listed Companies”.

Article 14 ECHR: a Protector, Not a Prosecutor (2007)
Book Chapter
Baker, A. (2007). Article 14 ECHR: a Protector, Not a Prosecutor. In H. Fenwick, G. Phillipson, & R. Masterman (Eds.), Judicial reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act (348-376). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511493775.015

When the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) brought the protections of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into UK law, it entrusted the judiciary with a role with which it had little experience. The HRA asks judges to decide, among other things,... Read More about Article 14 ECHR: a Protector, Not a Prosecutor.

Intellectual property, genetically modified crops and bioethics. (2007)
Journal Article
Adcock, M. (2007). Intellectual property, genetically modified crops and bioethics. Biotechnology Journal, 2(9), 1088-1092. https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.200700090

The implementation of a new technology is almost always surrounded by a debate on the moral and social implications that may arise. The debate with regard to genetically modified (GM) crops has been one of the longest and most controversial. However,... Read More about Intellectual property, genetically modified crops and bioethics..

Living outside the system: the (im)morality of urban squatting after the Land Registration Act 2002 (2007)
Journal Article
Cobb, N., & Fox, L. (2007). Living outside the system: the (im)morality of urban squatting after the Land Registration Act 2002. Legal Studies, 27(2), 236-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2007.00046.x

The Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA 2002) has effectively curtailed the law permitting the acquisition of title through adverse possession in relation to most types of adverse possessor, including the paradigmatic urban squatter. While the traditiona... Read More about Living outside the system: the (im)morality of urban squatting after the Land Registration Act 2002.

Breach of Contract and the Expectation Deficit: Inconvenience and Disappointment (2007)
Journal Article
Chandler, A., & Devenney, J. (2007). Breach of Contract and the Expectation Deficit: Inconvenience and Disappointment. Legal Studies, 27(1), 126-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2006.00041.x

One of the most controversial aspects of the assessment of damages for breach of contract is the extent to which there can be recovery for 'intangible' losses such as disappointment and inconvenience. In Watts v Morrow, Bingham LJ assumed that public... Read More about Breach of Contract and the Expectation Deficit: Inconvenience and Disappointment.

Turkish law and the UNCITRAL’s work on the assignment of receivables with a special reference to the assignment of future receivables (2007)
Journal Article
Akseli, O. (2007). Turkish law and the UNCITRAL’s work on the assignment of receivables with a special reference to the assignment of future receivables. Law and Financial Markets Review, 1(1), 45-54

Raising finance by the assignment of receivables is an important financing technique and its regulation varies under different legal systems. The UNCITRAL Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (“the UNCITRAL Convention”)... Read More about Turkish law and the UNCITRAL’s work on the assignment of receivables with a special reference to the assignment of future receivables.

'Restitution and Transitional Justice in the European Court of Human Rights' (2007)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2007). 'Restitution and Transitional Justice in the European Court of Human Rights'. The Columbia journal of European law, 13(1), 1-46

This Article examines the response of the European Court of Human Rights to claims for the restitution of property that was unlawfully or unjustly taken during a period of authoritarian rule. It demonstrates that, with some exceptions, it has not sup... Read More about 'Restitution and Transitional Justice in the European Court of Human Rights'.