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Die vorliegende Arbeit steht im Kontext der Regionalisierung im Internationalen Strafrecht. Sie untersucht die Faktoren, die der entsprechenden Entwicklung des afrikanischen internationalen Strafrechts unter der Ägide der Afrikanischen Union (AU) zugrunde liegen und beleuchtet die Inhalte dieser sich entwickelnden Disziplin. Primäres Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die theoretischen und praktischen Grundlagen für die Entwicklung eines tragfähigen Systems afrikanischer Strafjustiz zu untersuchen, das in der Lage sein soll, mit Verbrechen gegen den Frieden und die Sicherheit in Afrika umzugehen, die die öffentliche Ordnung des Kontinents bedrohen. Im Weiteren entwickelt die Arbeit das Verhältnis des regionalen, afrikanischen Strafrechts zu dem globalen System des internationalen Strafrechts, in dessen Mittelpunkt der Internationale Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) und der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen stehen. Die Kombination der Analysen dieser verschiedenen Bereiche führt die Arbeit zu drei zentralen Schlussfolgerungen: Erstens ist die Entwicklung eines afrikanischen internationalen Strafrechts nicht nur eine Konsequenz der aktuellen Krise des internationalen Strafrechts. Sie ist ebenso und zuvorderst das Ergebnis einer Politik der Eigenständigkeit der AU und ihrer Mitgliedsstaaten. Diese zielt darauf ab, die regionale öffentliche Ordnung durch regionale Institutionen und strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit zu schützen. Die zweite Schlussfolgerung lautet, dass die AU ein System regional- afrikanischer Strafjustiz vorantreibt, das auf drei optionalen Modellen aufbaut: Der Delegation von Rechtsprechungsbefugnissen an Mitgliedsstaaten, der Errichtung hybrider Gerichte mit regionalen RichterInnen sowie dem Aufbau eines regionalen Strafgerichtshofs. Zusammen mit solchen Straftatbeständen der Verbrechen gegen den Frieden und die Sicherheit, die den Kontinent spezifisch betreffen, bilden diese Modelle den Kern des afrikanischen internationalen Strafrechts. Allerdings bleiben Tragfähigkeit und Effizienz des Systems problematisch. Es steht vor einer Vielzahl an Herausforderungen, etwa der Ratifikation des Malabo-Protokolls von 2014, das einen „Strafgerichtshof der AU“ errichten soll, der Förderung justizieller Kooperation der Staaten oder der Sicherung einer stabilen Finanzierung des Gerichts. Die dritte Schlussfolgerung lautet, dass ein afrikanisches internationales Strafrecht kein Ersatz für das allgemeine internationale Strafrecht ist. Es geht um die Koexistenz von Normen und Institutionen und eine koordinierte Beziehung, um Kollisionen und Ineffizienzen zu vermeiden. Die Arbeit diskutiert drei verschiedener Ansätze für stabile Beziehungen zwischen dem afrikanisch-regionalen und dem internationalen Strafrecht: Das hierarchische Modell, den kooperativen Ansatz und die Regionalisierung des IStGH in Verbindung mit dem Prinzip der regionalen Territorialität.

LL.D. (International Law) Please refer to full text to view abstract.

The industry of oil and gas is not peculiar to question anymore, inferable from the global condition as well as its various dimensions. While trying to complete an agreement procedure, it would barely be clear to expect the thing that could happen in the emergence of a debate. Hazard moving and fragmented contracting lie at the heart of the organization relationship innate in the obtainment and financing of extensive scale undertakings, such as power plants, oil and gas pipelines, and condensed natural gas facilities. An examination of gas bonds gives exact proof of the hazard moving results of legally binding inadequacy. This thesis is a basic examination of the discipline we call the law of oil and gas. A number of the imperfections connected with this "specific" status. Jurisprudential with its "uncommon" status. Jurisprudential imperfections have created as courts leave from essential contract, property, or tort law in quest for natural resources ideas. The marvel isn’t restricted to natural resources law but instead can occur in any "law of" setting. This article delineates the issues connected with oil and gas law by dissecting legal ways to deal with perceiving and applying "inferred agreements" under the oil and gas rent. By contrasting the experience and results under the oil and gas lead to the result under an agreement law investigation, it is conceivable to assess whether a specific "oil and gas" govern is vital or prudent. In the past quarter-century, huge changes have happened in the ways legal advisors approach strife. There have been uncommon endeavors to create systems went for more proficient, not so much expensive, but rather more fulfilling determination of contention, including more broad and suitable utilization of intercession and other " alternative dispute resolution " (ADR) approaches. This review analyzes what is known and not considered about the development and effect of ADR in government and state courts, in the business division, and in work and shopper settings. The investigation inspects the relationship amongst ADR and court trial, additionally underlines the more extensive employments of and method of reasoning for intercession and different process decisions. This study concentrates on the oil and gas contract with question by ADR.

Son yıllarda, uluslararası ticaret hukukundaki gelişmelerle birlikte sınır aşan şirket birleşmeleri de giderek önem kazanmıştır. Şirketler bakımından yabancı bir şirketle birleşmenin getirdiği pek çok avantaj yanında, çeşitli zorluklar da mevcuttur. Bu zorluklardan en önemlilerinden bir tanesini de sınır aşan birleşmelere uygulanacak hukukun tespiti oluşturmaktadır. AB hukukunda, sınır aşan şirket birleşmelerine ilişkin düzenlemeler öngörülerek üye devletler arasındaki uygulamanın yeknesaklaştırılması adına 2005/56/EC sayılı Direktif kabul edilmiştir. Türk hukuku bakımından ise, sınır aşan şirket birleşmelerinin önemine vurgu yapılmakla birlikte bu hususta henüz bir düzenleme getirilmiş değildir. Çalışmada, AB hukukunda bu hususta öngörülen düzenlemeler de değerlendirilmek suretiyle, Türk hukukunda sınır aşan şirket birleşmelerine uygulanacak hukukun tespiti üzerinde durulmuştur. Sınır aşan şirket birleşmelerine uygulanacak hukuka ilişkin görüşler de değerlendirilerek, AB hukuku ile de uyum sağlamak adına, Türk hukukunda her bir birleşme işlemi için uygulanacak hukuk değerlendirilmiş ve sınır aşan şirket birleşmelerine uygulanacak hukuka ilişkin düzenleme önerisinde bulunulmuştur. Anahtar Kelimeler: Sınır aşan birleşme, uygulanacak hukuk, şirket birleşmeleri, 2005/56/EC, AB hukuku. With the recent developments in international commercial law, cross-border mergers have been developed during the last few decades. Besides the advantages of merging with a company from a different country, there are also some difficulties especially about determining the applicable law. In European Union, Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies has been accepted to regulate this issue and harmonise the rules of substantive law of the member states. In Turkish law, despite the emphasize on the significance of the cross-border mergers at the preamble of Turkish Commercial Code, currently there is no codification about cross-border mergers. This study attempts to make a discussion about the applicable law to cross-border mergers from the perspective of Turkish law and a comparison between the regulations of European Union law and Turkish law. Yet, taking into consideration the EU-Turkey relations and the developments about the adaption of Turkish law to European Union law, the harmonization of rules about cross-border mergers must be inevitable. As the applicable law to cross-border mergers is topical and important subject for Turkish law, the study will also deal with the legislation proposal in accordance with European Union law. Key Words: merger, cross-border merger, applicable law, 2005/56/EC, EU law.

LL.M. (International Commercial Law) Please refer to full text to view abstract

In publicly held companies where the shareholdership is differentiated from the control and the management of the company, the dispersed shareholding structure prevents the active involvement of the shareholders in the company management while the directors have the opportunity to act in their personal interests. The aforementioned conflict of interest between the shareholders and the directors in the management of the publicly held companies which has been identified as "Principle-Agent Problem" in economic literature has had substantial effect in modern company law. Accordingly, considerable work in the company law has been dedicated to the legal strategies developed to decrease the cost of monitoring directors for shareholders. One of the main corporate governance strategies that is developed to deal with the "Principle-Agent Problem" focuses on increasing the number and the effectiveness of the directors who are not involved in the managing activities of the company. The main principle of this legal strategy is the designing the structure of the board of directors on the basis of team spirit and mutual accountability. In that sense, non-management directors conduct their duties as directors without having management tasks in the company. As these directors work on a part time basis they are not fully depended to the company and in principle they receive symbolic amounts of remuneration. Under this incentive strategy it is accepted that the esteem and reputation that the non-management directors preserve in eye of the public are the main incentives that motivate them to monitor the managing directors. The corporate governance principles are designed as alternative to the rule based regulation approach in company law. The non-management directorship which is introduced as a corporate governance concept for solving the problem of conflict of interest between the shareholders and the directors is the focus area of this thesis. The thesis consists of five parts. In the first part of this study, the concept of corporate governance which is the source of non-management director concept and the conflict of intererest problem between the shareholders and the directors regarding the management of the publicly held companies have been introduced. In this regard, "Centralised Management" and "Principle-Agent Problem" are explained. Finally, based on the "Principle-Agent Problem" the legal theories that are developed to increase the effectiveness of the board of directors, the categorisation of those strategies that has been introduced and place of the non-management directors among those strategies are clarified. In the second part the emergence of the concept of non-management directorship system and the development of the mechanisms for increasing director independence are described and different forms of non-management directors in one-tier board structures are analysed. On this subject the legal designing of the concepts of independent and disinterested directorship which is developed in American law and non-executive directorship which is introduced in the British Law is analysed. In the third part, the concept of the supervisory directorship which corresponds to the non-management directorship in two-tier board system is examined. Forth part of the thesis focuses on the comparison of one-tier and two-tier board structures in application of the non-management directorship concept. Within this scope, it has been analysed whether there is a convergence in the functions of non-management directors in terms of supervision, strategy development and networking in the two types of board systems. Related to this analysis, the effectiveness of the non-management directors in one-tier and two-tier board systems and the role of the institutional investor regarding this effectiveness is evaluated. In recent years, depending on the inclination of convergence in different law systems, there has been an alignment effort in the European Union to have a single set of rules regarding the non-management directors. In this respect as a final focus point, in this part, the regulations of the European Union regarding the non-management directors are examined. The fifth part is dedicated to legal design of the independent directorship which is regulated under the non-management directorship concept in the Turkish law. Turkish Commercial Code is the general code that regulates all joint stock corporations including the publicly held ones. Therefore in order to explain the effects of Anglo-American approach on the administrative organ, the approach of the Turkish Commercial Code regarding the structure and functioning of the board of directors which are based on corporate governance principles are explained. Following that general introduction, the system change regarding the corporate governance principles in Turkey which consists of application of mandatory rules rather than "Comply or Explain" approach that is applicable to independent directors is explained. After that the independence criteria which are set for the independent directors under the capital market regulations for publicly held joint stock corporations and the role of independent directors in decision making mechanism are analysed. Finally, the structure and functioning of the board committees are evaluated by examining the functions of the independent board members.

Vergi hukuku kurum ve işlemlerini iktisadi hayatın işleyişi üzerine kurmuştur. İktisadi hayat ise ticaret hukuku, borçlar hukuku ve medeni hukuk gibi özel hukuk kurallarının denetimindedir. Bu durumun doğal bir sonucu olarak da vergi hukuku vergiyi doğuran olayları tanımlarken özel hukukun kurum ve kavramlarından faydalanmaktadır. Hukuki işlemlerin en önemlilerinden biri olan özel hukuk sözleşmeleri de vergilendirmenin sebep unsurunu oluşturabilmektedir. Çalışmamızda vergi hukukunun özel hukuk ile ilişkisi açıklanmış ve özel hukuk sözleşmelerinin vergi hukukundaki geçerlilikleri literatürdeki farklı görüşlere, yargı kararlarına ve İdare'nin görüşlerine yer verilerek araştırılmıştır. Özel hukuk sözleşmeleri ile ortaya çıkartılabilen sayısız durumda her iki hukuk dalının aynı olaya farklı bakış açıları mükellefler ve İdare'nin sıklıkla karşı karşıya gelmesine sebep olmaktadır. Vergiyi doğuran olayın sözleşmelerle ortaya çıkması halinde adil bir vergilendirme bu sözleşmelerin hukuki nitelendirmelerinin doğru yapılmasıyla mümkün olmaktadır. Ayrıca vergi hukukunun özel hukuk kavramlarına atfettiği anlamlar verginin yasallığı ilkesi çerçevesinde kanunlarla şekillenmelidir. Anahtar Kelimeler : Vergi Hukuku, Özel Hukuk Sözleşmeleri, Verginin Yasallığı. Tax law establishes its institutes and procedures as based on the operation of the financial life. Financial life is under the control of the rules of the private laws such as trade law, obligations law and civil law. As a natural consequence of this, when tax law defines the events that give rise to tax, it also benefits from the institutions and concepts of the private law. Private law contracts, which are among the most important legal procedures, may also result in taxation. In our study, the relation of the tax law with private law is explained and the validity of the private law contracts in tax law is examined by inclusion of different opinions in the literature, judicial decisions and the opinions of the Administration. The different points of views of both branches of law about the same event in countless number of cases, which occur as a result of private law contracts, cause the tax payers come up against the Administration frequently. If the event giving rise to taxation is a result of the contracts, then a fair taxation is possible through correct legal identification of such contracts. Moreover, the meanings referred by the tax law to the private law concepts should be shaped by the laws within the frame of the principle of the legality of tax Keywords : Tax Law, Private Law Contracts, Legality of Tax

Le juge de l’exécution est en charge d’un contentieux dont les termes et les normes visent principalement à résoudre des difficultés afférentes - voire inhérentes - aux titres exécutoires et aux saisies conservatoires ou aux voies d’exécution civile forcée. Cela postule une exécution des décisions de justice avec célérité et rigueur pour rétablir dans ses droits tout créancier lésé et disposant d’un titre exécutoire. De plus, il s’agit de contribuer au nécessaire équilibre à établir entre les intérêts (notamment patrimoniaux) du créancier, du débiteur ou des tiers. L’étude du statut du juge du contentieux de l’exécution révèle, cependant, la difficulté à en définir la nature. Elle révèle également une pluralité et une diversité d’institutions auxquelles ce juge peut être identifié au niveau des Etats membres de l’OHADA avec autant de régimes juridiques nationaux applicables ; ce qui peut être source d’insécurité, à savoir : forum shopping, law shopping au sein de la zone OHADA.

El Convenio de Nueva York de 1958 permite se busque el reconocimiento y la ejecución de un laudo OHADA en terceros Estados. Sin embargo, admite el empleo de la normativa interna para regir el procedimiento y deja a salvo cuestiones relacionadas con la inmunidad soberana de los Estados. Las nuevas leyes adoptadas en España en materia de cooperación jurídica internacional e inmunidad soberana, establecen la intervención del MAEC cuando un Estado extranjero sea demandado ante tribunales españoles como es el caso Commercial Bank / Guinea Ecuatorial. Esta previsión puede implicar un giro de la jurisprudencia hacia posturas más cercanas a la inmunidad absoluta. Como se verá en este artículo, aunque CBGE haya obtenido el execuátur del laudo en España y logrado el embargo del avión titularidad de Ceiba, las medidas coercitivas de ejecución podrán ser recurridas en revisión por el Estado, quien podrá plantear una estrategia fundamentalmente en dos direcciones: (i) bien demostrando la finalidad soberana del aparato embargado, para defender así su carácter inmune a la ejecución, o (ii) bien alegando que la persona jurídica afectada por el embargo no ha sido parte en el arbitraje y por tanto no es la deudora del laudo. La práctica jurisprudencial internacional ha demostrado que existen gran des posibilidades de que el tribunal termine levantando el embargo si se demuestra fehacientemente alguna de estas dos defensas.

This thesis investigates three important issues on bank financial reporting quality: 1) the impact of banks’ retail versus wholesale funding structure on their earnings quality, 2) the implications of economic and monetary policy uncertainty for banks’ earnings opacity, and 3) the relationship between banks’ bad time history and accounting conservatism. In the first essay, we examine the implications of banks’ funding strategies for banks’ earnings quality. We find that banks’ greater reliance on retail deposits over wholesale funds is negatively and significantly associated with the magnitude of earnings management through discretionary loan loss provisions, the likelihood of meeting-or-beating earnings benchmark, and the extent of income smoothing through loan loss provisions. This finding is consistent with the arguments that retail deposits are relatively more stable and information-insensitive, represent a more conservative business model, and attract more intensive monitoring from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) than wholesale funds, thereby improving banks’ financial reporting quality. In the second essay, we investigate whether economic and monetary policy uncertainties affect banks’ earnings opacity. When economic and monetary policies are relatively uncertain, it is easier for bank managers to distort financial information, as unpredictable policy changes make assessing the existence and impact of hidden “adverse news” more difficult for investors and creditors. Policy uncertainty also increases the fluctuation in banks’ earnings and cash flows, providing additional incentives for bank managers to engage in earnings management. Our results show that uncertainty in economic and monetary policy is associated with greater magnitude of discretionary loan loss provisions, higher likelihood of just meeting-or-beating the prior year’s earnings, and lower levels of accounting conservatism, suggesting that economic and monetary policy uncertainties lead to higher banks’ earnings opacity. In the third essay, we examine the impact of banks’ bad times on the conservatism of accounting policy. Specifically, we investigate two types of bad times: banks’ own past experiences of undercapitalization and their experiences of witnessing the failures of other banks in state-wide and county-wide crises. We find that both types of banks’ bad times are positively related to timelier recognition of earnings decreases versus earnings increases in accounting income. We also find that following exposure to bad times, banks increase their allowance for loan losses. Collectively, our results suggest that bank-specific bad times and macro-level banking crises lead to greater bank accounting conservatism. These findings support the arguments that banks exposed to past crises overweight their bad time history, and become more cautious and pessimistic about their future earnings performance and loan quality.

For the past twenty years, international commercial arbitration scholarship has mainly focusedon the private dimension of international arbitration. Part of a greater movement toward the privatization of justice and law, this understanding of the discipline has obscured arbitrators'adjudicative role. By reflecting on different adjudicative models and by analyzing the form andcontent of arbitral decisions, new light can be shed on our understanding of international commercial arbitration.

A inserção internacional de Moçambique é um processo que ocorreu em fases, tendo se iniciado com os esforços empreendidos na década de 1960 pelo Dr. Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, Primeiro Presidente da Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO). Visando criar o isolamento internacional do regime colonial Português e obter o apoio necessário para a causa da independência de Moçambique, Mondlane estabeleceu contatos com governos de vários Estados do mundo incluindo países ocidentais, países progressistas africanos e países socialistas, projetando, deste modo, a imagem de Moçambique no mundo. Iniciada com as decisões tomadas no Segundo Congresso da FRELIMO realizado em 1968, a política externa de Moçambique tinha em vista “criar mais amigos e poucos inimigos”, num contexto de bipolaridade ideológica que caracterizava a guerra-fria. O novo contexto internacional emergente no período após o fim da guerra-fria viria a originar uma redefiniçao desta política que passou a ser definida como de “criar mais amigos e mais parceiras”. A nível da região da África Austral a FRELIMO considerou sempre que a independência de Moçambique só seria completa com a libertação de todos os países da região que ainda se encontravam sob a dominação de regimes coloniais e minoritários tendo dado o seu apoio incondicional à luta de libertação do Zimbábue, África do Sul e Namíbia, para além do seu grande empenho no processo de cooperação e integração regional. É neste contexto que se pode enquadrar esta tese cujo tema é “a política externa de Moçambique e sua inserção na região da África Austral” a qual procura, através de uma vasta revisão bibliográfica, analisar os contornos que estiveram à volta da afirmação de Moçambique como Estado reconhecido no concerto das nações tanto a nível regional como internacional.