Name: Networks
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781841139456
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Author: Marc Amstutz; Gunther Teubner
ISBN: 9781841139456

Networks Legal Issues of Multilateral Co-operation

Edited by Marc Amstutz · Gunther Teubner

Hart Publishing June 2009

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781841139456
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: June 2009
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

In the last 20 years interest in network phenomena has grown immensely among anthropologists, psychologists, political scientists, economists and lawyers. Empirical observation shows that network arrangements can be found in many branches of business. This is often linked to rapid changes in today's markets and technologies, but it is not the only reason.

Legal institutions have been at the centre of private law since the industrial revolution but today contracts and corporations cannot cope with the risks and opportunities posed by networks. Legal practice needs solutions which go beyond the classical traditions of thinking in the dichotomy of contract and corporation.

This volume is the outcome of a conference held in Fribourg, Switzerland, which focused on the legal treatment of contractual networks, in particular questions of network expectations, the fragility of network institutions, and the question of how law can minimise network specific risks towards third parties.