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Guide to JCT Standard Building Contract 2024
No full textThe latest edition of the JCT Guide series provides a practical, comprehensive overview of the 2024 JCT Standard Contract suite (SBC/Q, SBC/AQ, and SBC/XQ)
Supporting Policing Students ::A Handbook for Lecturers, Tutors, Coaches and Mentors /
No full textThis is an invaluable guide for those involved in supporting policing students, including lecturers, tutors, trainers, mentors and coaches. It integrates quality research and practice to help anyone in these roles provide optimal support and guidance to their policing students. Shaping the next generation of policing officers and staff comes with a unique set of challenges, so chapters cover a myriad of useful subjects related to coaching models and theories and how to apply these in a policing context. Additionally, you will find insightful teaching tips, including effective feedback strategies and guidance on addressing challenging topics like domestic abuse and courtroom appearances. Accessibly written, this book can be explored from start to finish or used as a reference guide, and includes reflective exercises and real-life policing examples to help you apply theory to practice, creating an enriching learning experience for both you and your students
A comparative guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank /
No full textThe Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) opened in 2016, as a US60 billion. Among its 110 approved members are countries in Asia and Oceania, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In addition to highlighting key innovations from AIIB's first ten years in operation, the second edition of A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank examines AIIB through the lens of its Charter, focusing on its mandate, investment operations, membership, finance, governance framework and decision-making, and institutional setup. Why these elements matter for MDBs is explained, followed by analysis of the AIIB Charter text, and comparison with its predecessors. The book begins with two chapters new to the second edition and largely new to the literature. The first delves into the legal origins of the 1945 World Bank Charter, finding its roots in the Bank for International Settlements in 1930 and a bank never established, the Inter-American Bank of 1940. The second chapter traces the adaptation of the World Bank Charter through other MDB charters, in the process telling the story of AIIB's founding. Uniquely, this book takes apart the AIIB Charter for the general reader and the specialist, from the perspective of the Chief Counsel who put it together. It's an inside look at how this new international organization went from concept to reality, and a handy legal guide to MDBs, newly updated in 2025
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No full textAmazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System
No full textAmazon’s dominance as a platform is widely documented. But one aspect of that dominance has not received sufficient attention—the Amazon Brand Registry’s sweeping influence on firm behavior, particularly in relation to the formal trademark system. Amazon’s Brand Registry serves as a shadow trademark system that dramatically affects businesses’ incentives to seek legal registration of their marks. The result has been a surge in the number of applications to register, which has swamped the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and created delays for all applicants, even those that previously would have registered their marks. And the increased value of federal registration has drawn in bad actors who fraudulently register marks that are in use by others on the Amazon platform and use those registrations to extort the true owners. Amazon’s policies also create incentives for businesses to adopt different kinds of marks. Specifically, businesses are more likely to claim descriptive or generic terms, advantageously in stylized form or with accompanying images, and to game the scope limitations that would ordinarily attend registration of those marks. And the same Amazon policies have given rise to the phenomenon of “nonsense marks,” which are strings of letters and numbers unrecognizable as words or symbols. In the midst of these systemic changes, Amazon has consolidated its own branding practices, focusing on a few core brands and expanding its use of those marks across a wide range of products. In combination, Amazon’s business model and Brand Registry have overhauled the American trademark system, and they have done so with very little public recognition of the consequences of Amazon’s business approach. Amazon’s impact raises profound questions for trademark law and for law more generally. There have been powerful players before, and other situations in which private dispute resolution procedures have affected parties’ behavior. But Amazon’s effect on the legal system is unprecedented in scale and scope. What does—or should— it mean that one private party can so significantly affect a legal system? Do we want the trademark system to have to continually adapt to Amazon’s rules? If not, how can the law disable Amazon from having such a profound impact? In this regard, we explore the ways in which Amazon’s practices affect competition, harm the trademark system, and reshape how we think about trademark law at its foundation. </p
Asian comparative constitutional law.
No full textThis is the third in a four-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in Asia. Volume 3 looks at the both the formal and functional aspects of constitutional structure in 18 Asian jurisdictions. It considers formal aspects such as: - legislative-executive relations; - the court system; - constitutional review (including specialist, ordinary judicial review, and non-judicial institutions of constitutional review); - central-local relations and federalism; - the role of the political parties; - the role of the military; and - independent institutions, such as audit, election, and anti-corruption institutions. It also answers questions about functional aspects of constitutional structure including: - How do these structural institutions work in practice? - What are the factors, such as political dynamics, local culture, ethnic diversity, and social structure, influence their operation? The jurisdictions covered are: Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand
