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Die Frage der analogen Anwendbarkeit des 988 BGB auf den rechtsgrundlosen Besitzerwerb ist ein Klassiker unter den Streitfragen des Eigentumer-Besitzer-Verhaltnisses. Ausgangspunkt der Kontroverse ist die Besserstellung des redlichen Besitzers gegenuber dem redlichen Kondiktionsschuldner. Ersterer haftet nach 987 ff. BGB grundsatzlich nicht auf Nutzungsersatz, Letzterer ist nach 818 Abs. 1 BGB zur Herausgabe der Nutzungen verpflichtet. In den zu diesem Wertungswiderspruch bislang entwickelten...

"This is a classic text that…is very comprehensive, well-structured and particularly well-designed from a learning perspective.” Dr. Jean-Anne Stewart, Associate Professor, Henley Business School.   “Management and Organisational Behaviour has provided an excellent source for students over many years…the author go out of their way to include additional research evidence/key frameworks and theories that are not covered in many of the other mainstream OB texts. This is a real benefit for th...

This fourth edition of Business Law offers comprehensive and accessible coverage of the key aspects of business law. Established legal topics such as the English legal system, Contract, Consumer, Intellectual Property, Company and Employment Law, and emerging areas such as Health, Safety and Environmental Law are all addressed in the context of business. The work has been thoroughly updated to include all the major recent developments in business law, such as the new EU Trade Secrets Directive...

Government contracting is plagued by nefarious, amateurish, and criminal behavior. By awarding government contracts to corporations as compensation for lavish gifts and personal favors, the United States government fails to serve the public interest effectively and honestly. William Sims Curry identifies and categorizes multiple deficiencies in how government contractors are selected, and proposes how reforms can be instituted. This book is based on extensive research. Curry sifted through two...

This book is intended to provide a broad overview of Social Security law and practice. It covers the two main titles of the Social Security Act: Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), with a special focus on the disability provisions of both programs. It begins with an introductory chapter that places current Social Security law and practice in its historical context, including a brief discussion of the circumstances surrounding the passage of...

This manual contains the authors' detailed solutions to the 353 problems at the ends of the chapters in the third edition of Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Most problem solutions are accompanied by a further related exercise. The manual will be invaluable both to the instructors and lecturers who adopt the parent text and to the students themselves.

This book focuses on the elements for a successful legal and judicial system. It also outlines the alternatives that exist for holding governments accountable and existing informal mechanisms for dispute resolution and contract enforcement. Among other issues, this book evaluates whether laws and institutions can give voice to the poor.

This volume convincingly lays to rest two held beliefs that have long impeded scholarly analysis of the role of courts and litigation in American politics: 1) that group resort to the courts is a rather recent phenomenon resulting from actions of the Warren Court and the Civil Rights Movement; and 2) that unique and distinctive features of the judiciary somehow place it beyond or outside analytic frameworks used to study and analyze the role, nature and functioning of other governing institution...

Foundations of Public Contracts undertakes an in-depth survey of the foundations of public contracts in three legal systems: American, French, and Brazilian. The comparison of these three systems highlights the legal phenomenon's historical, philosophical, and social origins.The book transcends the functional commonalities to penetrate into how American, French, and Brazilian lawyers think about the essence of government contracts law, the phenomenon of exceptionalism: preferential treatment tha...