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This book results from a conference held in Singapore in September 2009 that brought together distinguished lawyers and economists to examine the differences and similarities in the intersection between intellectual property and competition laws in Asia. The prime focus was how best to balance these laws to improve economic welfare. Countries in Asia have different levels of development and experience with intellectual property and competition laws. Japan has the longest experience and now vigorously enforces both competition and intellectual property laws. Most other countries in Asia have only recently introduced intellectual property laws (due to the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement) and competition laws (sometimes due to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or free trade agreements). It would be naive to think that laws, even if similar on the surface, have the same goals or can be enforced similarly. Countries have differing degrees of acceptance of the

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This book analyzes a series of integrated studies of relations between the EU, the WTO, and China. It consists of three main parts. Part I introduces the basic concepts. It surveys the literature on law and globalization, introduces the concept of sites of governance and the theory of global legal pluralism, and sketches the foundations of global legal pluralism. It shows that each site of governance has both a structural dimension - consisting of institutions, norms, and dispute resolution processes - and a relational dimension comprising its relations with other sites of governance. The totality of sites of governance constitutes a new form of global legal pluralism. Part II analyzes global legal pluralism in action, in relations between the EU, the WTO, and China. It examines the construction of relations between sites, ways in which relations between sites give rise to new legal concepts or transform the character of rules, the tension between regionalism and international integration, and the gover

History comes alive-in this illustrated guide to theConstitution and all 27 Amendments. ? Which state refused to send a delegation to the ConstitutionalConvention? ? Why was the Convention held in secret, with sentries at thedoor? ? What are the 27 Amendments? The U.S. Constitution for Everyone relates how the "traitorous"Founding Fathers wrote the nation's supreme laws and how thethirteen Disunited States became a more perfect Union. A must forstudents of American history and for everyone who'd like to knowmore about the supreme laws of our nation.