Swiss-Croatian Research Programme. Promoting Swiss-Croatian research initiatives. Switzerland is contributing to the EU enlargement by supporting efforts to reduce economic and social disparities. The supported countries include Croatia, one of the most recent EU members. One area of cooperation is scientific research.
Towards the question of imaginary equality of the statuses of multinational corporation and NGO in international law In this article the author on the basis of the analysis of practical activities of NGO and multinational corporation comes to a valid conclusion that attempts of certain lawyers to rank multinational corporations as subjects of international law (as «actors of the international relations»), pulling together them with NGO as non-state actors of this right, have no basіs, it is an artificial problem. Multinational corporation is the subject of the international private law, a main objective of its establishment is profit and excess profit extraction. Destroying of the indigenous structure of people’s society demonstrates a significant threat for contemporary variety of cultures existed today, especially on African continent as a home for more than several thousands of various nationalities and peoples. During the ages indigenous peoples were suffered from forced displacement, dispossession of their lands, discrimination or simply annihilated. Nowadays many of surviving peoples would like to preserve their unique culture, ethnical identity and control under their ancestral lands or at least the part of it.
Arabic language pack for windows 7. Contemporary international law and existing mechanisms within the framework of African system of human rights protection based on it help to achieve this goal in many respects. Markets in financial instruments directive (MiFID) reform and its impact on EU financial markets This article describes current EU regulatory reform concerning financial instruments trading and financial firm’s activities. Main trend of ongoing reforms is strengthening transparency of operations with financial instruments and investors protection. Major document implementing new rules is revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and proposed by European Commission in 2011 and implementing it Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation.
Together, both legal instruments should form the legal framework governing the requirements applicable to investment firms, regulated markets, data reporting services providers and third country firms providing investment services or activities in the Union. Anthropocentric law understanding: the realities of modern Ukrainian law The article explains the current state of Ukrainian jurisprudence through the prism of anthropological approach. The author argues that the current stage of development of the Ukrainian legal system is marked by the dramatic changes under the influence of the institutionalization of civil society in Ukraine, the structure of which requires new principles of interaction between man and the state. Change of ideology has led to the need for the national legal culture of new values and ideals, which cause a reform of domestic legislation. In this regard, the role of legal anthropology, through which anthropological understanding of the essence of law becomes possible, is growing.
After all, according to the anthropological principle, it is man who is the source of development of rights. Inability to study law separate from the person, the need to «humanize» the legal system determine the causes of the anthropological turn in science, jurisprudence, law enforcement.
Increasingly the questions are raised about the legal entity and the nature of the «legal person», the origins of legal concepts in human mind. Relevance of the topic of the article is determined by the fact that the domestic legal science is in the process of «law anthropologization», that is the return of the law to his true democratic foundations, humanization of legal ways of resolving social conflicts. The participation of Ukrainian and other Eastern European scientists in the activities of International academy of comparative law (towards the 90th anniversary of IACL) The article reviews the principles of organizational structure and activities of the International Academy of Comparative Law. The circumstances of involvement to the activities of IACL of scientists from European socialist countries and the Soviet Union that became the factor of transformation of theoretical and methodological foundations of Marxist and Western comparative jurisprudence are analyzed. The features of participation of Ukrainian scientists in the IACL activities in terms of non-sovereign and modern independent development of Ukraine are highlighted. Biographies of several little-known Ukrainian legal scientists are reconstructed and put into scientific circulation.