Bibliographie sélective OHADA

Liability insurance concerns an insured’s insurance of its legal liability towards a third party for the latter’s loss. This specialised type of insurance is rather neglected in South African insurance law. There is a lack of understanding of the intricacies of liability insurance and its unique challenges. This flows primarily from its complex nature as third-party insurance, which involves legal obligations between multiple parties, and a lack of statutory regulation of the distinctive contractual aspects of liability insurance. Furthermore, limited authority exists on contentious legal aspects as a result of the relatively small number of judicial decisions in this field of law. It is also evident that liability insurance constantly evolves as new grounds of liability emerge and new insurance products develop in response to the changing demands of society. The rise of consumerism and the increase in third-party claims amplify the economic significance of the law of liability insurance in South Africa. A substantial knowledge gap remains in our jurisprudence, irrespective of the recent introduction of new statutory instruments aimed at regulating insurance practice in general. These reforms have not as yet been applied critically to liability insurance, and no specialised legislation in South Africa regulates aspects of this branch of insurance as is the case with microinsurance. The focus in this thesis is on two main issues: the insurer’s duty effectively to indemnify the insured, and the insurer’s defence and settlement of third-party claims brought against the insured. As a subsidiary theme, this thesis analyses legal uncertainties that may persist during pre-contractual negotiations, the liability insurance contract lifecycle, and even after the expiry of the contract. Legal challenges can be addressed by novel and creative application of the national law. Potential solutions can be gleaned from the other progressive jurisdictions reviewed – English and Belgian law. It is evident that this research may prompt Parliament to develop specific rules and regulations for liability insurance contract law. This thesis includes a check list of some of the most important disclosure duties for procuring liability insurance cover, its operation, and claims processes.

This thesis proposed for the reform of Africa’s Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) landscape through the establishment of a Pan-African Investment Court (PAIC) as a mechanism for the resolution of Investor-State Disputes. This proposal is influenced by the findings of my investigation on the functioning of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) through the deployment of Investor-State Arbitration to resolve Investor-State Disputes between African states and foreign investors. This research is motivated by the criticisms of the Arbitration mechanism by a broad spectrum of constituencies within international investment law. These criticisms are primarily anchored on the legitimacy crises of ISDS, a dissatisfactory notion that denounces the deployment of the private mechanism and privity of contract ingrained investment arbitration framework to resolve publicly-inclined investor-state disputes. Ancillary to this critical holy grail are further dissatisfactions on the practical functionality of investment arbitration in aspects of high volume of cases against developing states, lack of diversity in the appointment of arbitrators and curtailment of sovereignty of host states through the intrusion of provisions of International Investment Agreements on legitimate internal decision-making powers. Consequently, this thesis investigated the practical functioning of ISDS in African states. After the study of the experiences of Egypt, South Africa and Tanzania; it was found that the legitimacy crises of ISDS also impacts on African states, and does not support their socio-economic and sustainable developmental aspirations. As a remedy, I proposed for a reform to an Investment Court System (ICS) through the establishment of a Pan-African Investment Court (PAIC). An evaluation of this recommendation was conducted that evidenced potential challenges that may mitigate its feasibility, thus leading to the advancement of two secondary reform alternatives vis the reform and retention of the current investor-state arbitration framework and engagement in innovative treaty-making practices by African states. To the best of my knowledge, this thesis has not been previously submitted in any higher institution or published by another person. The contents of this thesis are my ideas. Where the materials of others were used, due acknowledgement and reference was provided. Acknowledgements

A Integração Tripartida entre Comunidade de Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADC), Comunidade da África Oriental (EAC) e Mercado Comum de África Oriental e Austral (COMESA) é uma inciativa de Chefes de Estado e de Governos das três Comunidades Económicas Regionais (CERs) em integrar seus separados programas numa única área de livre comércio. A iniciativa enquadra-se no contexto do Plano de Acção de Lagos (1980) e do Tratado de Abuja (1991) que consideram as CERs como pilares para criação da Comunidade Económica Africana (CEA). A Tese tem como principal objectivo analisar os desafios da cooperação intra-regional e perspectivas da integração tripartida entre SADC-EACCOMESA. Com base na pesquisa qualitativa coadjuvada pelas técnicas documental e bibliográfica constatou-se que a construção dos processos de integração regional na SADC e EAC evoluiram de padrões de confrontação para cooperação enquanto a COMESA foi por excelência um espaço priviligiado para cooperação comercial. Ainda assim, as três CERs enfrentam mesmos desafios relacionados com a sobreposição dos Estados membros, proliferação de “esquemas informais” de integração regional, dependência das CERs em relação aos doadoers internacionais, fragmentação de mercados nacional e regional e a prevalência da vontade de Estados membros sobre processos de integração regional. Face a estes desafios, a implementação da integração tripartida gera dúvidas e incertezas.

ukuk davaları yaygın şekilde mahkemeden istenen hukuk himayeye göre bir sınıflandırılmaya tabi tutulmaktadır. Kişiler arasında geçerli olarak kurulan bir hukuki ilişkiyi bertaraf ederek yeni bir hukuki durum tesis eden davalar inşai davalar, bu davaların kabulü üzerine verilen mahkeme kararları ise inşai hükümler olarak adlandırılır. İnşai hükümler o zamana kadar var olmayan, ancak hükmün kesinleşmesiyle birlikte ortaya çıkan bir yeni bir hukuki durum yaratırlar. Kural olarak inşai hükümler herkese karşı etkilidir ve istenilen etkiyi doğurmak için icraya ya da herhangi bir aracıya ihtiyaç duymazlar. Özel hukuk alanında inşai davalar aile hukuku ve ticaret hukukunda yoğunlaşmakla birlikte, usul hukuk ve takip hukuk alanında inşai dava örnekleri de bulunmaktadır. Keza çekişmeli yargıda olduğu kadar çekişmesiz yargı işlerinde, geçici hukuki koruma tedbirleri görünümünde de inşai sonuç doğuran mahkeme kararlarına rastlanır. Bu tezde inşai hükümle ilgili temel kavramlar ele alındıktan sonra inşai hükmün özellikleri, türleri ve hükmün inşai etkisi başlıkları ayrıntılı bir şekilde ele alınacak; problemli gördüğümüz hususlarla ilgili kişisel önerilerde bulunulacaktır. Civil lawsuits are commonly subject to a classification according to the legal protection required from the court. Lawsuits which establish a new legal situation by eliminating a legal relationship established between individuals, are called constitutive lawsuits, and court verdicts made upon the acceptance of these lawsuits are called constitutive judgments. The constitutive judgments create a new legal situation that did not exist until then, but emerged with the finalization of the judgment. Likewise, as a rule, constitutive judgments are inter omnes effective against everyone and do not require execution or any means to produce the desired effect. In the field of private law, constitutive lawsuits are concentrated mostly in family law and commercial law, but there are also examples of constitutive lawsuits in the field of procedural law and law of execution. Moreover, in the area of non - contentious jurisdiction and temporary legal protections, constitutive court decisions are also exist. After considering the basic concepts related to the constitutive judgments, the features, the types and the titles of the constitutive judgments will be discussed in detail in our dissertation. Later on personal suggestions will be made on issues we consider problematic.

Çokuluslu şirketlerin etki alanı küresel olmakla birlikte, gerçekleştirdikleri faaliyetlerdeki menfaatleri özeldir ve nihai hedefleri de kârlılıklarını arttırmaktır. 1970'lerden itibaren çokuluslu şirketlerin dünyanın ekonomik kalkınmasına hizmet edebileceğine yönelik toplumsal beklentinin gerçekçi olmadığı ciddi insani ve çevresel maliyetleriyle birlikte anlaşılmıştır. Gerçekten de, neoliberal politikalar, ekonomik küreselleşme ve uluslararası yatırım antlaşmaları rejimiyle daha da güç ve nüfuz kazanan çokuluslu şirketlerin sebep olduğu siyasi, ekonomik, hukuki, çevresel ve sosyal sorunlar günümüzde belirgin bir hale gelmiştir. Toplumsal ve küresel eşitsizliklerin ve adaletsizliklerin daha da derinleşmesi kamuoyunda büyük endişe yaratmaktadır. Yaşanmakta olan bu süreç, insan haklarını koruma ve mağduriyetleri telafi mekanizmalarının yetersizliklerini gözler önüne sermektedir. Çokuluslu şirketlerin faaliyetlerini nasıl gerçekleştirdiğine veya güçlerini ne yönde kullandıklarına ilişkin hesap verilebilirliğin sağlanabilmesi için ortaya çıkan toplumsal beklentinin karşılanabilmesi amacıyla, 2011 yılında Birleşmiş Milletler İnsan Hakları Konseyi tarafından oybirliğiyle kabul edilen Rehber İlkeler çerçevesinde, devletlerin insan haklarını koruma ödevlerinin yanı sıra şirketlerin de insan haklarına saygı gösterme sorumluluğunun olduğu ve bu sorumluluğun gereklerini yerine getirmek için insan hakları etki incelemesi (HRDD) yapmaları gerektiği açık bir şekilde ifade edilmiştir. Şirketlere atfedilen bu insan hakları sorumluluğunun uluslararası hukukta ve uluslararası insan hakları hukukunda temellendirilmesi önem taşımaktadır. Zira, çokuluslu şirketlerin tedarik zincirlerindeki uygulamaları, uluslararası hukukun emredici kurallarının (jus cogens) ihlallerini de içeren birçok insan hakları ihlallerine sebebiyet vermektedir. Ancak, iç hukuk sistemlerinde çokuluslu şirketlerin örgütlenme biçimleri ve tüzel kişilik perdesinden kaynaklanan kısıtlar nedeniyle hesap verilebilirlikleri sağlanamamaktadır. Gerçekten de, iş dünyası ve insan hakları alanının esas tartışması ve sermayenin insan hakları ihlalleri kaynaklı yaşanan adaletsizliklerin esas nedeni, çokuluslu şirketlerin insan hakları sorumluluğunun sağlanabilmesine karşı en başta ticaret hukuku ve sözleşmeler hukuku olmak üzere iç hukukta yer alan yasal engeller, liberalizmin kalıplaşmış bakış açılarının aşılamaması ve çokuluslu sermayenin (yabancı yatırımın) ekonomik kalkınmayı ve toplumsal gönenci beraberinde getireceğine yönelik gerçekdışı beklentidir. Şirketlerin sahip olduğu insan hakları sorumluluğu uluslararası örf ve âdet hukuk normu olarak belirdikten sonra Rehber İlkeler kapsamında beyan edilmiş, HRDD de bu sorumluluğunun gereklerini ifa edilebilmesi için önemli ve gerekli bir risk tespit aracı olarak öngörülmüştür. Devletlerin insan haklarını koruma ödevleri gereği, şirketlerden hesap sorulabilirliğin ve hak mağdurlarının adalete erişimlerinin sağlanabilmesi için iç hukuk engellerini kaldırması ve/veya hesap sorulabilirliği kolaylaştırıcı iç hukuk düzenlemeleri yapması gerekmektedir. Son dönemde özellikle Avrupa Birliğinde ve Avrupa Birliğine üye olan devletlerde yaşanan yasal gelişmeler de bu gerekliliğin bir sonucudur. Even though the domain of multinational companies is global, their interests are private and their ultimate goal is to increase their profitability. Since 1970s, it has been understood that the social expectation that multinational companies can serve for the economic development of the world is not realistic and this understanding was gained with serious human and environmental costs. Indeed, the political, economic, legal, environmental and social problems caused by the mutinational companies, who have assumed more power and influence through widespread neoliberal policies, economic globalization and international investment treaties regime, have become more evident today. The intensification of social and global inequalities as well as injustice among societies raised great concern in the public opinion. This ongoing process reveals the shortcomings and inadequacies of human rights protection and remediation mechanisms. In order to meet the social expectation for ensuring legal accountability of multinational companies regarding their global activities, in 2011 the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted the 'Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights', which explicity sets forth corporate responsibility to respect human rights in addition to already existing state duty to protect human rights. Guiding Principles also states that business actors should make human rights due diligence (HRDD) to fulfill the requirements and conditions of their human rights responsibility. It is important to establish legal basis of corporate responsibility to respect human rights within the scope of international law and international human rights law. Otherwise, such responsibility would not be legally enforceable and thus, one can easily argue that this responsibility exists in vacuum juris. However, we have been witnessing various practices and operations of multinational companies within their supply chains, which would constitute human rights violations - in fact, some of these violations are breaches of jus cogens. Nonetheless, it is not possible to ensure the legal accountability of multinational companies in the current national legal systems due to legal barriers arising from how multinational companies' organizations are structured and corporate veil doctrine stipulated in national laws. The main discussion in the field of business and human rights and the main reason for injustices due to human rights violations by corporate actors; legal barriers arising from domestic law – particularly, commercial and contractual law – for establishing human rights responsibility of multinational companies, inability to go beyond streotypical approach of liberalism, and the unrealistic expectation that multinational companies (as well as foreign investment) will bring economic development and social welfare. As a matter of fact, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights has been declared within the scope of the Guiding Principles after this responsibility was emerged as an international customary law norm. HRDD is also envisaged as an important and necessary risk assessment tool for the fulfillment of this responsibility's requirements. As precribed by the duty of states to protect human rights, in order to ensure legal accountability of corporate actors and to enable victims' access to justice, removing domestic legal barriers and enacting necessary regulations that would facilitate accountability are required. Recent legal developments, especially in the European Union and the member states of the European Union, are also a result of this necessity.

The internet and digital technologies have irreversibly changed the way we find and consume news. Legacy news organisations, publishers of newspapers, have moved to the internet. In the online news environment, however, they are no longer the exclusive suppliers of news. New digital intermediaries have emerged, search engines and news aggregators in particular. They select and display links and fragments of press publishers’ content as a part of their services, without seeking the news organisations’ prior consent. To shield themselves from exploitation by digital intermediaries, press publishers have begun to seek legal protection, and called for the introduction of a new right under the umbrella of copyright and related rights. Following these calls, the press publishers’ right was introduced into the EU copyright framework by the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market in 2019.

There are many employment positions in the labour market that could be filled by the disabled of whom most, given the right environment, could be productive in the workplace. However, there are employers who still labour under the misconception that Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are unqualified and unproductive although their participation in the workplace could contribute to the national economy, while restoring their dignity and social integration. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) entered into force on 3 May 2008. The CRPD is the first international legally binding treaty aimed specifically at protecting the rights of PWDs. It is expected of ratifying States Parties to either amend their domestic existing laws or to enact new legislation in order to meet their obligations, as set out in the CRPD. In 2008, South Africa ratified the CRPD and the Optional Protocol, thus committing itself to the provisions relating to, inter alia, workplace integration. Article 26 of the Convention mandates States Parties to take effective and appropriate measures to enable PWDs to attain and maintain maximum independence, physical, mental, social and vocational ability, and to ensure their social inclusion. Article 27 stipulates, inter alia, that States Parties shall safeguard and promote the realisation of the right to work, including those who incur a disability during the course of employment. Legislation should make provision for, inter alia the following: • enable PWDs to have effective access to general technical and vocational guidance programmes; • placement services and continued vocational training; • promote employment opportunities and career advancement; • assistance in sourcing, obtaining, maintaining and returning to work; and • reasonable accommodation in the workplace as well as vocational and professional rehabilitation. Although the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act 130 of 1993 was amended recently to include rehabilitation, re-integration and return to work (RTW) as part of its objectives, it will be argued that South Africa needs to initiate targeted legislation and policies that make disability management functions mandatory. Employers’ obligations need to be set out clearly in the Act, because, as it stands, the following lacunae exist: • There is no obligation to appoint Case Managers; • Dismissal protection is not provided for; • The regulation of negative incentives to assist with RTW compliance is lacking; and • The roles of different stakeholders in the RTW process require clarification. Without South Africa having an appropriate and detailed RTW framework, ill or injured employees stand the risk of losing their jobs and becoming dependent on family members and/or disability grants. Against this background, a comparative analysis of international and regional law and the RTW practices of two foreign jurisdictions were made. This enabled the author to devise recommendations and identify the roles of the government, employers, employees and Case Managers. The primary objective of this thesis is to determine how and to what extent regional and international standards and RTW programmes in other countries could assist in developing and amending the current legislative and policy framework in South Africa to promote the RTW of disabled employees.

Le cotitulaire est celui qui, au même titre qu’un ou plusieurs autres, est investi du même droit. Cette idée de détention de droit ou de titularité de droit est accentuée par la nature incorporelle ou immatérielle de la “chose’’ création intellectuelle. Juridiquement en effet les choses incorporelles et plus encore la création intellectuelle semblent se réduire à chacun des droits portant sur elles pendant que seul le droit de propriété saisit la totalité de la chose, de la chose corporelle. La nature de droit réel sur une “chose’’ immatérielle, droit non absolu, droit différent de la propriété de droit commun sur cette chose a été révélée et retenue. Lorsqu’on analyse alors la cotitularité du droit de propriété intellectuelle, c’est-à-dire lorsqu’on se situe au niveau du droit, de la relation interne entre un sujet et son objet, que ce sujet ne peut exclure deux ou trois autres, et ce, de façon définitive, le problème n’est pas seulement au niveau de l’exclusivité des parts telle que régie par le régime de l’indivision du Code civil. Il se pose une question d’exercice du même droit entre personnes titulaires de ce droit unique et égal entre eux, question non réglée, voire soigneusement éludée par ce texte. Les cotitulaires du droit de propriété intellectuelle font son acquisition ensemble pour pouvoir en bénéficier, pas pour avoir une part de la création intellectuelle, chose immatérielle. La présente thèse démontre l’inapplicabilité du régime de droit commun de l’indivision aux droits de propriété intellectuelle et montre que le contrat est le seul régime d’exercice du droit de propriété intellectuelle en situation de cotitularité de droit.

With the developments happening globally that are aimed at curbing base erosion and profit shifting by multinationals, improving the resolution of transfer pricing disputes has been identified as one of the key issues. This thesis investigates the challenges uniquely faced by African countries that militate against the use of the OECD transfer pricing dispute resolution mechanisms. The thesis starts by reflecting on the effect of transfer pricing manipulation by multinational enterprises in Africa in particular. Transfer pricing manipulation is one of the causes of the so-called tax gap, which is, the gap between anticipated and actual revenue collection. The aggression by revenue authorities against transfer pricing manipulation in order to close this gap has triggered a lot of transfer pricing adjustments. These adjustments have resulted in multiple transfer pricing disputes. In the analysis of the adopted OECD dispute resolution mechanisms, the thesis focuses on the effectiveness of the mutual agreement procedure (MAP), the advance pricing arrangement (APA) and the mandatory binding arbitration (MBA). It identifies the problems that result in the failure of or the delay in the resolution of many transfer pricing disputes by analysing the domestic frameworks that exist in four African countries namely: South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Ghana. The thesis identifies problems such as the absence of a tax treaty network within the African continent, the use of underdeveloped double tax agreements and the lack of commitment from African countries to subscribe to and ratify multilateral conventions. These problems delay or stifle the resolution of tax treaty disputes. They also cause uncertainty for taxpayers and lead to continued tax avoidance by multinational enterprises that essentially avoid paying tax in African countries where the economic activities of these enterprises take place. The thesis also identifies the importance of other OECD supporting tools such as the exchange of tax information in the resolution of transfer pricing disputes. It focuses on tools such as country by country reports, the master file, the local file and simultaneous tax examination as covered by the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters. The thesis contributes to the resolution of the identified problems with transfer pricing dispute resolution in Africa by recommending certain improvements that can be effected. These recommendations entail, regarding the MAP, the expansion of tax treaty networks by African countries and the establishment of a Tax Treaty Dispute Resolution Committee by ATAF. Regarding the APA, it is recommended that African countries should sign the multilateral instrument (MLI) and make use of advance tax rulings (ATRs) as alternatives. With respect to the MBA, this thesis recommends that African countries should use optional arbitration by effectively using article 25(4) of the OECD Model tax convention (MTC). It also recommends that African countries must enhance their tax transparency by ratifying multilateral conventions that seek to address international tax co-operation and to improve compliance with transfer pricing documentation requirements in order to make the resolution of transfer pricing disputes more effective.

This thesis investigates the process of integration in the African Union (AU), and the reasons behind the slow progress of the AU to achieve the goal of deeper economic integration. In the research I explore the role of an AU member state in the process of African integration: Algeria. The research scrutinises the development of Algerian foreign policy towards the AU and highlights any changes in the Algerian FP attitudes and the reasons behind these changes. Similarly, the research unveils the reality of the decision-making process in this country, and the different agents that influence it. To achieve the main goals of the research, different theoretical choices were elaborated. This resulted in researching European integration theories; Neofunctionalism was, then, selected to study the Algerian development in the making of its foreign policy in general and towards the African Union specifically. Some concepts within the Neofunctionalist thinking were used including the principle of the shift of loyalties, the socialisation process, the spillover system, and the role of interest groups in the process of integration. Moreover, the theory of Regionalism was used to examine the process of integration in the AU discovering new reasons that led to the slow development of economic integration in Africa. Consequently, the research highlights the current obstacles and challenges that have hindered the process of economic integration in the AU, including the poverty of most of the AU member states, the limited financial budget of the Union and the instability of the majority of African countries. Furthermore, the research unveiled the lack of political will towards AU economic integration plans. Hence, this contribution extends beyond the traditional models of explanation, and discusses the situation in AU member states (in this case Algeria) and points to other factors as well such as the weakness of the lobbyist activities and business groups in Algeria specifically and Africa more generally. The thesis, then, focusses on Algeria’s supportive and active status in the AU security sector, highlighting how Algeria has been successful in pushing its own security and antiterrorism agenda to the AU level, thereby demonstrating that integration into the AU is possible, if it is backed by influential member states, and wider coalitions can be built to promote integration and cooperation.

The lack of long-term and stable financial support for SMEs is the fundamental reason why enterprises cannot develop for a long time. At present, the situation of financing difficulties for SMEs is becoming more and more serious. Private equity (PE) investment has emerged as an important financing method. Private equity investment, while broadening the financing channels of SME capital markets, brings advanced management experience to enterprises, which helps enterprises to develop rapidly and effectively. According to the statistics of the Zero2IPO Research Center, the active investment institutions in China's equity market have grown from more than 200 in 2000 to more than 14,000 in 2018, with a total asset under management over RMB 9 trillion. Great progress has been realized in the scale and development of the industry. In addition, with the launch of the GEM in 2009, PE investment industry met new opportunities of development and became popular. At present, the development of China's PE investment business is still at an early stage. Neither relevant policies, laws and regulations nor supporting mechanisms are mature enough. Therefore, researches on China's PE investment business needs to be carried out. In this context, more and more scholars are beginning to focus on the field of PE investment. This paper focuses on whether PE investments can fundamentally increase the enterprise value. The basic theory is sorted out to serve as the theoretical basis for this study. Through a systematic analysis, this paper draws out 4paths of PE investment affecting enterprises, which are the influence on technological innovation, corporate governance activities, dividend distribution decision and earnings management, respectively. And through empirical analysis, it finds the empirical basis of the impact of PE investment on enterprise value, and investigates how PE investments affect enterprise value based on the difference in investment characteristics such as investment duration and whether the investment is joint or not. This paper conducts an empirical test by selecting the listed companies of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange GEM in 2015-2018 as sample. The results show that the investment of PE firm will significantly increase the value of the target enterprise. This paper makes a detailed analysis of sample data. The conclusion of the study is that private equity investment will have a significant impact on the value of target enterprises. Private equity investment plays an important role in the modern governance structure of small and medium-sized enterprises in China This paper enriches the existing literature and provides constructive suggestions for the health development of the PE investment market. 中小企业缺乏长期稳定的资金来源是企业无法长久发展的根本性原因，目前 中小企业融资难的形势越来越严峻，私募股权投资作为一种重要的融资手段应运 而生。私募股权投资在拓宽中小企业资本市场融资渠道的同时，给企业带来先进的 管理经验，有助于企业快速并有效的发展。据清科研究中心的统计数据显示，中国 股权市场活跃的投资机构已由 2000 年的 200 多家发展到 2018 年的 1.4 万多家，管 理资本量超过 9 万亿人民币，行业规模和发展实现了质的飞跃。此外，随着 2009 年创业板的推出，私募股权投资行业的发展业迎来了新的希望和契机，私募股权投 资业务开始盛行。目前，我国私募股权投资业务的发展还处于早期阶段，无论是从 政策还是法律法规再到配套机制，都还不够健全。因此，对我国私募股权投资业务 的研究亟需开展，在此背景下，越来越多的学者开始关注私募股权投资这一领域。 本文研究的重点是私募股权投资是否能够根本上提升企业价值。本文首先对 基础理论进行了梳理，以此作为研究的理论依据，而后论述了私募股权投资对被投 资企业价值影响的理论分析，。本文通过系统的理论分析得出了私募股权投资影响 企业的路径，并通过实证分析，得到私募股权投资对企业价值的影响的实证依据， 并且从投资期限和是否联合投资等投资特征的差异性，深入研究私募股权投资对 企业价值的影响方式。本文通过选取深圳证券交易所创业板 2015-2018 年的上市企 业作为样本，进行了实证检验，并得出以下研究结论:私募股权投资的参与会显著 提升目标企业的价值，同时，私募股权投资的期限越长、联合投资机构的数量越多， 目标企业的价值也会越高。 本文基于理论又结合实际，对样本数据进行了分析，研究的结论是私募股权投 资会对被投资企业的价值产生显著影响。私募股权投资对于我国中小企业的现代 化治理结构起到了完善作用。本文的研究结果丰富了现有文献，对私募股权投资市 场健康发展提出了建设性的建议。

My dissertation investigates two streams of managerial accounting literature; specifically, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and executive personality. Paper 1 focuses on whether companies strategically engage in CSR practices to retain employees. Using a difference-in-differences design, I find that an increase in the enforcement of non compete agreements (which enhances a firm’s ability to retain employees) deteriorates CSR performance. Paper 2 extends prior literature and links managerial risk tolerance and firms’ CSR performance. The empirical result of Paper 2 shows that pilot CEOs are less likely to exhibit better CSR performance. Paper 3 examines the spillover effect of managerial risk tolerance along the supply chain. Specifically, I follow Paper 2 to use the pilot status of CEOs to proxy for the customers’ risk tolerance level. Overall, the results support a negative association between customer risk tolerance and supplier investment efficiency, and customer companies ran by pilot CEOs leads to supplier investment inefficiency. Each chapter is designed to be self-contained and provides a more detailed discussion of the research question and contribution.

International commercial arbitration has established itself as the main dispute resolution mechanism for international commercial disputes. This increased visibility has drawn attention to arbitrators’ public role, leading to a well-established general perception that arbitrators are bound to special obligations, such as the duty to be independent and impartial or the obligation to assure that arbitral proceedings are not abused to achieve nefarious goals. Despite this general acknowledgement, little attention has been paid to the mechanisms that ensure that arbitrators adhere to these obligations. In particular, there has been limited analysis of the underlying mechanisms that incentivise the production and enforcement of professional norms in this field. <p></p> This thesis argues that the particulars of the arbitration market largely explains why the evolution of the regulation of international arbitrators has not matched those of other professions. At the same time, it will argue that those same particularities create incentives for several actors, most notably the arbitral community itself, to step in and occupy this regulatory vacuum. In particular, it explores the notion that the market strategies employed by arbitrators, arbitral institutions and other members of the arbitral community have the production of professional norms as a by-product. It further explores how the arbitral market tends to create an environment where compliance with professional norms is rewarded, leading, at the same time, the arbitral community to work as a network that promotes adherence to professional norms through mostly informal sanctions.

The issue of portability of social security benefits is a daunting issue facing migrant workers in both Southern Africa and the world in general. In the Southern African Development Community region migration seems to be driven mainly by the need to attain economic freedom. The fact of the matter is that migrant workers from Lesotho and Swaziland who work and have worked in South Africa do play a major role in boosting these countries’ economies. Another issue that cannot be ignored is the fact that circular migration as a phenomenon is unlikely to come to an end any time soon in this part of the world. This means that social security benefits of migrant workers and its portability should be an issue that is dealt with cautiously and speedily, especially in terms of looking at the millions of unclaimed social security benefits reported each year by social security funds and schemes in South Africa. While examining the extent to which selected SADC member states, namely Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa, have undertaken to combat this issue, international and regional instruments that have a bearing on social security rights are analysed and the realisation is that in as much as these do provide for social security rights and portability of benefits thereof, a lack of ratification and implementation play a vital role in achieving efficient portability of these rights. Although South Africa, as the largest migrant-receiving country in the SADC region, does provide for the right to social security in its Constitution, the fragmented nature of its social security framework, together with other factors such lack of information, exploitation by employers, distances travelled to lay claims and a non-existent social security adjudication system means that migrant workers are normally left with lack of redress when their contracts of employment reach an end. On the other hand, Swaziland and Lesotho, as migrant-sending countries, do not even have provisions in their constitutions that specifically deal with the right to social security. This means that citizens who work abroad do not have sufficient social security coverage in either country, as well as in South Africa as a host country. Consequently, multilateral and bilateral agreements on social security are pivotal in addressing this issue of unclaimed social security benefits as they go a long way in making sure that migrant workers are provided with adequate social security protection and coverage as a whole. Migrant sending countries also need to undertake unilateral initiatives to guarantee that their citizens are adequately protected in this specific sphere of social security. Examples are further drawn from the best practices of different regions in the world, namely the Southeast Asian Nations Region, Caribbean Community and Common Market and the Southern Common Market. The above-mentioned regions have established multilateral social security agreements that seek social security protection for migrant workers who play an undeniable role in their economies. Bilateral social security agreements between Zambia and Malawi, together with the one between Sweden and Philippines, are taken into consideration as best practices that Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa may draw examples from when drawing up and concluding their own bilateral social security agreements. The Philippines’ unilateral initiatives are also discussed and hailed as the best practices that migrant-sending countries such as Lesotho and Swaziland may further draw examples from. The Philippines has developed strategies aimed at guaranteeing social protection for its migrant workers abroad and further makes sure that it enters into bilateral agreements with any country that receives services from its citizens. While the need to conclude multilateral and bilateral agreements on social security cannot be denied, there is also a need for migrant-sending countries to come up with unilateral initiatives to lessen the burden on migrant-receiving countries in this social security domain. Sectors such as the mining sector should also have mining-specific agreements that specifically deal with issues related to migrant mine workers. Lack of statistics of migrant workers moving in and out of South Africa has also been labelled as one of the reasons halting access and portability of social security benefits; hence there is a need to develop a data-base aimed at keeping track of all migrant workers, retired and otherwise. Migrant workers who seek redress regarding access of their unclaimed or unpaid social security benefits also have to be provided with comprehensive protection from the courts of law. This therefore means that an adjudication system should be established to deal with social security woes so that those seeking redress have adequate legal support.

Em vista de um contexto crítico ao Direito Internacional Privado, em que se retrata a disciplina como inerte frente aos desafios da globalização, composta por técnicas neutras e indiferentes a ideais de justiça na conjuntura da alocação da governança global, esta tese pretende propor uma reinterpretação das normas de aplicação imediata e da exceção da ordem pública. Almeja-se adaptar estes institutos jurídicos para que comportem uma dimensão social, incorporando fatores axiológicos que permitam a promoção do interesse público e dos direitos humanos. Esta pesquisa é permeada pelas seguintes perguntas: (i) frente a asseverada neutralidade do Direito Internacional Privado, as normas de aplicação imediata e a exceção da ordem pública conseguiriam representar uma quebra desta ausência valorativa, englobando fatores axiológicos? (ii) Se esta ruptura da neutralidade é comprovável, de quais fatores axiológicos se revestem as normas de aplicação imediata e a exceção da ordem pública? (iii) Há possibilidade de serem agregados outros fatores axiológicos aos existentes? (iv) Os fatores axiológicos existentes e os fatores axiológicos agregados seriam capazes de ensejar um fomento do interesse público e dos direitos humanos, conformando uma função social do Direito Internacional Privado? Visando a enfrentar estes questionamentos, empregou-se um método dedutivo de abordagem e foram utilizadas técnicas de pesquisa histórica e comparativa, combinadas à análise de fontes doutrinais, legislação e jurisprudência nacionais e estrangeiras. Incialmente, foram expostas as premissas da pesquisa, estudando-se a construção histórica do paradigma de neutralidade do Direito Internacional Privado e como as normas de aplicação imediata e a exceção da ordem pública podem representar uma ruptura a esta neutralidade. Posteriormente, foram analisados os valores intrínsecos às normas de aplicação imediata e à exceção ordem pública, propondo-se que outros valores sejam a estes agregados, no sentido de se promover o interesse público e os direitos humanos.

Ever since the formation of limited companies became permissible, unsecured creditors have faced a Sisyphean struggle to regularly recover substantial levels of the debts owed to them should corporate creditors enter insolvency. These low recovery rates result in many issues for lenders, including large losses, and in some cases, the insolvency of the lender themselves. The causes of these low return rates are long established and clearly demarcated. They consist of the existence and widespread use of security interests - which remove the majority of the company’s assets upon insolvency occurring - and the statutory priority of distribution, which ensures that parties other than the unsecured creditors have their debts discharged first by the liquidator from the already insufficiently resourced asset pool. English insolvency law has sought to provide some protection to the unsecured creditors through the anti-deprivation and personal liability provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986, which are intended to protect the integrity of the insolvent company’s asset pool. However, as concluded by this thesis, these provisions fail to afford adequate protection as a consequence of their substantive, evidential and remedial limitations, potentially resulting in the distributable assets being misappropriated and out of the reach of unsecured creditors. This thesis therefore analyses the limitations of the existing anti-deprivation and personal liability provisions before concluding as to how and why they fail to adequately protect unsecured creditors. This is done through a doctrinal and theoretical analysis of the provisions, before these conclusions are then tested empirically in two case studies. Given the inadequate protection provided by the Insolvency Act, this thesis then analyses the resulting trust – on which little analysis has been conducted in the context of insolvency – to determine whether it is capable of assisting unsecured creditors to increase their liquidation return rates. This increase is achieved through returning assets beneficially owned by the company to the company, or by preventing parties from becoming unsecured creditors in the first place by removing assets beneficially owned by them from the company. This analysis too will adopt a doctrinal and theoretical methodology, and it is concluded that the resulting trust is able to assist should the requisite factual matrices occur.

Party autonomy is a well-accepted doctrine codified by national, international and supranational organizations that enables parties to be able to not only shape their contract but also their dispute resolution methods. It is believed that parties know their best interests; therefore, it is reasonable to give parties the freedom to decide whom they contract with and on what terms. This maximizes the autonomous freedom of the parties. Therefore, today it is well accepted that parties could waive their right to go to court and choose arbitration instead. However, through history, party autonomy has been seen as a direct threat to sovereign authority. States were always suspicious that arbitration hearings may not be as fair as court hearings since parties have the right to manipulate the arbitration processes. As a direct result of this, states regulated restrictions on party autonomy in international commercial arbitrations. Unfortunately, there is not an accepted definition of these restrictions and their effects on party autonomy have not been established or regulated internationally. Since party autonomy is the backbone of international commercial arbitration, it is important to crystalize the restrictions on party autonomy in procedural issues which directly affects the wellbeing of the arbitration process. Well accepted international regulations such as the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards or UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration helped to establish a unified system of restrictions on party autonomy but every state and state's courts interpret these restrictions differently. As procedural issues affect the result of international commercial arbitration, restrictions on party autonomy in procedural issues should be examined carefully. It is not an exaggeration that in international commercial arbitration the real and complicated questions most of the time originate from the issues of the boundaries of party autonomy. The tension between the party autonomy and efficiency of an arbitration process affects every decision which can be made by parties, arbitrators or courts. Therefore, this dissertation will investigate these problems in three parts by outlining; the source of party autonomy, the restrictions of party autonomy and the applications of these restrictions to party autonomy in procedural issues in international commercial arbitration. In the first part, the origin of party autonomy doctrine and how the doctrine developed throughout time will be examined. The law of arbitration, lex arbitri will be examined first. There are two accepted theories to determine lex arbitri. According to the territorialism theory, arbitration gets its power from the law of the place where the arbitration takes place. This theory suggests that the place where the arbitration takes place has control power over the procedure of arbitration. On the other hand, delocalization theory suggests that arbitral tribunals are detached from and not under the control of the law of the seat of arbitration. Although it looks like delocalization theory suits the needs of the international trade practice better because it assumes that arbitration is not in control of any law, it is still important to accept the power of the seat of arbitration since arbitration always needs a law to be controlled and get help. This section will also cover how different countries and international regulations determine lex arbitri and how it is determined in Turkish law according to the Turkish International Arbitration Law, Law no.4686. In the second part, restrictive measures of party autonomy will be examined. It will start with why party autonomy in procedural issues is needed to be restricted. Then the source of these restrictions will be mentioned. Afterwards, the common notions of the restrictions will be examined under the concepts of principles and rules. Under principles, the public policy and the common due process issues such as party equality, right to be heard, independence and impartiality of arbitrators will be examined in great detail. Then, mandatory rules which are based on these principles and their effect on party autonomy will be explained. The section will be closed with the examination of the circumstances where these principles and rules contradict each other. The main purpose of the second part is to look for commonly accepted problems of restrictions of party autonomy in procedural issues and how these common problems may evolve to a uniformed standard of the law, namely lex proceduralia. In the third part, the application of restrictions on party autonomy will be examined. The application of restrictions has different effects on parties, arbitrators and courts. Parties' autonomy is restricted while they are preparing their agreement on procedural issues, arbitrators are restricted during the arbitration processes and courts are restricted while helping the arbitration or controlling the awards. Before the arbitration process is initiated, parties' autonomy to shape their agreement looks like it is almost unlimited. However, parties' autonomy is always restricted by their choices. This situation is called the autonomy paradox. Therefore, the question of what parties can decide before the arbitrators join the processes is of the upmost importance. When the process starts and arbitrators start working, they balance the choice of parties and the restrictions of party autonomy. Since it is accepted that arbitrators are bound by the parties' choice and their power comes from the agreement of parties, it should be questioned whether they need to execute every choice of parties even if the choice is against mandatory provisions of lex arbitri or general accepted due process norms. Last but not least, courts' role on determining the party autonomy will be questioned. The power of courts to intervene in the arbitral process determine the practical limits of the autonomy of parties. During the arbitration process, the court may intervene in the process to help or control the arbitration; but real control power comes from when one of the parties asks courts to set aside or enforce the arbitral awards. While courts examine the arbitral awards, they also indirectly decide the limits of party autonomy. Therefore, this section will examine, which restrictions will affect the fate of the arbitral awards and how the courts should evaluate these restrictions. In conclusion, the dissertation will mainly investigate the topic of freedom of parties to determine the procedural issues in international commercial arbitration. It will aim to interpret and make use of the party autonomy doctrine as coherent as it can in the modern age. By illustrating the definition and limitations of the party autonomy in the procedural issues in international commercial arbitration, the dissertation will try to find a common international ground. This common ground may help to keep arbitration processes efficient while it provides fair hearings.

Mobile money services have considerable potential in modern economies. They have the potential to increase financial inclusion for poor people and people excluded from formal financial services. This is because mobile money services can be accessed simply using a mobile cellular phone and the majority of people nowadays own mobile phones, including people living in the rural areas. Mobile money can therefore solve the problem of financial exclusion because even the people who live in the rural areas without access to formal financial services can now access financial services thorough mobile money services. Financial inclusion, on the other hand, is simply defined as a situation where every member of the society has access to and is able to use financial services offered by formal financial services institutions, such as banks and insurance companies. Financial inclusion has many benefits, the main benefit being the stimulation of the economy of a country. For mobile money services to operate smoothly and financial inclusion to be achieved, there must be enabling regulation. Regulation must not be so strict as to prevent mobile money service providers from operating. Regulation must allow for innovation and at the same time maintain financial integrity and stability by ensuring that financial crimes, such as money laundering, do not affect mobile money services. Although mobile money services can increase financial inclusion, regulators must be vigilant to ensure that they stop criminals from using mobile money services to commit money laundering offences. This research focuses mainly on mobile money services in the Kingdom of Lesotho. The aim is to find out how regulation can be improved to ensure that mobile money services can help to increase financial inclusion. The aim is also to find out how regulation can help to ensure that mobile money services operate smoothly, and that the crime of money laundering is prevented from affecting mobile money services. To achieve this aim, the research is divided into different chapters and in each chapter the aim is to find ways in which the main aim can be achieved. In the research, mobile money and financial inclusion will be defined and their importance in modern economies will be demonstrated in greater detail. Furthermore, the issues of money laundering will be discussed. The threat of the crime of money laundering will be highlighted. An analysis of the legal regulatory framework of mobile money services and money laundering in Lesotho will be undertaken to determine the extent to which these regulatory frameworks can help realise financial inclusion and promote mobile money services in Lesotho. The same discussion is made in respect of other African countries. The legal regulatory framework of Lesotho will be compared to the framework of other African countries to ascertain how mobile money services and money laundering and financial inclusion issues are regulated in those countries. The countries discussed in this research are South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ghana. Based on these discussions, some shortcomings in the legal regulatory framework of mobile money services and money laundering in Lesotho will be identified and the conclusion will be drawn that the two frameworks have to be revisited to ensure that mobile money services will operate smoothly in the Kingdom of Lesotho. Furthermore, recommendations will be made to address the legal shortcomings identified in the framework.

Bu doktora tezi, anonim ortaklıklar hukukunda esas sözleşme özgürlüğü ve bunun sınırlarının çeşitli açılardan incelenmesini konu almaktadır. Üç bölümden oluşan tezin ilk bölümü konunun kuramsal çerçevesini çizmeyi hedeflerken, ikinci ve üçüncü bölümler ise mevcut sorunlar karşısında dogmatik hukuk bakımından çözümler geliştirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu kapsamda öncelikle özel hukukta ve ortaklıklar hukukunda sözleşme özgürlüğünün kavramsal, teorik, tarihsel, anayasal, ekonomik ve ahlaki zemini ortaya koyulmuştur. İkinci bölümde sözleşme özgürlüğünün anonim ortaklıklar hukukundaki görünümü ele alınmış ve bunu hayata geçiren en önemli işlem olan esas sözleşme çeşitli açılardan irdelenmiştir. Son bölümde ise esas sözleşme özgürlüğünün genel hükümler ve anonim ortaklıklar hukuku çerçevesindeki sınırları incelenmiştir. Bu bağlamda TK m. 340 hükmünde düzenlenen emredici hükümler ilkesine özel bir önem atfedilmiştir. Çalışmada disiplinler arası yöntemin esas alınması doğrultusunda ortaklık teorilerine ve hukukun ekonomik analizine başvurulmuştur. Anılan yöntemlerin katkısı hem pozitif hukuk hem de hukuk politikası açısından ortaya koyulmuştur. Ayrıca incelemede karşılaştırmalı hukuka ve tarihsel araştırmaya geniş yer ayrılmıştır. This doctoral thesis analyzes contractual freedom in articles of association and its limits in joint stock companies from various aspects. The thesis consists of three parts. While the first part aims to set the theoretical framework of the problem, the second and third parts intend to find solutions vis-à-vis existing problems in terms of positive law. Within this scope conceptual, theoretical, constitutional, economic and ethical aspects of contractual freedom in private law and corporate law are primarily examined. The second part deals with contractual freedom in corporate law and examines articles of association from various perspectives as it is the most important legal act that brings contractual freedom into being. The last part analyzes the limits of contractual freedom in articles of association pursuant to general provisions of civil law and joint stock company law. In this regard, the principle of mandatory norms stipulated in Turkish Commercial Code numbered 6102 Article 340 is attached a particular importance. Theories of the corporation and economic analysis of law are applied in accordance with the interdisciplinary methodological view adopted in this study. Contribution of the mentioned methods are set forth in terms of both positive law and legal policy. Moreover, comparative legal analysis and historical analysis are used extensively.

Estudia la regulación y los aspectos vulnerables del convenio arbitral, con énfasis a la necesidad de alcanzar una mejor institucionalidad del arbitraje comercial en el Perú. Determina los principios que fundamentan el arbitraje comercial. Identificar los supuestos de afectación al convenio arbitral. Analiza diversas sentencias de anulación de laudo respecto a la inexistencia de convenio arbitral. Analiza los diversos estudios teóricos y normativos en sede nacional e internacional respecto a los alcances del convenio y práctica arbitral. Identifica las instituciones jurídicas que brinden una protección del convenio en vía arbitral y judicial..