We build a multi-sectoral North–South trade model to analyze international intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. By comparing the Nash equilibrium IPR protection standard of the South (the developing countries) with that of the North (the developed countries), we find that the former is naturally weaker than the latter. Moreover, we show that both regions can gain from an agreement tha...

2 * Paper prepared for the DFID-funded research programme, Institutions and Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG). The authors are grateful to DFID for the funding that made this research possible. The views expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author and in no way represent either the official policy of DFID or the policy of any other part of the UK government. Paper prepared for the DFID-funded...

Legal scholars engaged in academic research inevitably encounter various issues related to applicable methodology in the respective area of their legal research. This is partly because academic legal research is a relatively new field of inquiry and those trained in traditional legal research usually choose to ignore writing a methodology for their research paper/thesis. This has adversely affe...

This paper constructs a four factors theoretical model of Chinese small and medium enterprises based on the “cartoon characters’ reputation enterprise marketing and management capabilities – protection of the cartoon image institutional environment” by literature research, case studies and investigation. The empirical study show that the greatest impact on current merchandising rights income is...

drawing up the insurance contracts by insurance companies has led to disregard policyholder's rights. this means that insurers by inserting unfair terms in insurance contracts seek to make a contract that they gain special privileges for themselves. jurists as main opponents of injustice regard commitment not to insert unfair terms as one of the insurer's pre-contractual obligations i...

implementation of the right of defence in the modern administrative law is very important as widely recognized in the world's important legal systems. the object of this paper is to determine the conditions of this right and then, to compare its situation in european :union: and iran's legal system. the conditions of this right are hearing, access to file and knowledge of the reasons ...

Abstract “This study analyses civil society organisations’ ( cso s’) discourse on children’s rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories opt ). This is a troubled context, for Israel – ‘State Party’ to United Nation’s Convention Rights of Child crc ), disputes that its obligations extend . In consequence, there has been dearth official data and scholarly attention situation. Discourse analys...