Bibliographie sélective OHADA

The UNCITRAL Model Clauses on Specialized Express Dispute Resolution (SPEDR) (2024) (the “Model Clauses”) have been developed and adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. The Model Clauses, accompanied by explanatory notes, offer customized solutions designed to be adapted and adjusted to suit the particular circumstances and preferences of the parties, building on the UNCITRAL Expedited Arbitration Rules. Designed as a resource for businesses and practitioners engaging in international dispute resolution, especially when speed and technical expertise are crucial factors, the Model Clauses provide parties with tailored means to settle disputes in an expeditious manner, ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of their dispute resolution processes, while catering for their unique needs. The Four Model Clauses presented are: Model Clause on Highly Expedited Arbitration Model Clause on Adjudication Model Clause on Technical Advisers Model Clause on Confidentiality

The UNCITRAL Model Clauses on Specialized Express Dispute Resolution (SPEDR) (2024) (the “Model Clauses”) have been developed and adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. The Model Clauses, accompanied by explanatory notes, offer customized solutions designed to be adapted and adjusted to suit the particular circumstances and preferences of the parties, building on the UNCITRAL Expedited Arbitration Rules. Designed as a resource for businesses and practitioners engaging in international dispute resolution, especially when speed and technical expertise are crucial factors, the Model Clauses provide parties with tailored means to settle disputes in an expeditious manner, ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of their dispute resolution processes, while catering for their unique needs. The Four Model Clauses presented are: Model Clause on Highly Expedited Arbitration Model Clause on Adjudication Model Clause on Technical Advisers Model Clause on Confidentiality

The UNCITRAL Model Clauses on Specialized Express Dispute Resolution (SPEDR) (2024) (the “Model Clauses”) have been developed and adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. The Model Clauses, accompanied by explanatory notes, offer customized solutions designed to be adapted and adjusted to suit the particular circumstances and preferences of the parties, building on the UNCITRAL Expedited Arbitration Rules. Designed as a resource for businesses and practitioners engaging in international dispute resolution, especially when speed and technical expertise are crucial factors, the Model Clauses provide parties with tailored means to settle disputes in an expeditious manner, ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of their dispute resolution processes, while catering for their unique needs. The Four Model Clauses presented are: Model Clause on Highly Expedited Arbitration Model Clause on Adjudication Model Clause on Technical Advisers Model Clause on Confidentiality

This glossary is the first edition of legal and other terms that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) will encounter while trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The aim of the glossary is to help users understand legal, commercial and customs terms found in the AfCFTA Agreement as it has been crafted with inputs and guidance from the African private sector, including MSMEs, women and youth entrepreneurs, and business support institutions striving to improve the African business environment.

The authors’ aim in writing The Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics (CEBE) was to provide readers with a useful, concise overview of key issues in business ethics. Our aim is not to be exhaustive, but to provide key definitions, main areas of controversy, and pointers for further reading. It is hoped that it will provide a useful reference guide for students, as well as a starting point for scholars in adjacent fields. Our commitment to sticking to what we consider to be essential topics inevitably means that some readers will find that we have left out what they take to be important topics. For the most part, we stand by our editorial choices. However, as a digital document, it is possible that the CEBE will change and grow slightly over the coming years. Readers are free to provide feedback and suggestions by emailing the authors jointly at editors@bejr.org

Les promesses des technologies au service du commerce – l'ensemble de technologies grâce auxquelles le commerce mondial peut devenir plus efficace, plus inclusif et plus durable – sont nombreuses, depuis la facilitation des échanges jusqu'aux gains d'efficacité et à la réduction des coûts en passant par l'amélioration de la transparence et de la résilience des chaînes d'approvisionnement. Certes, l'innovation technologique existe, mais le plus grand défi en ce qui concerne l'adoption des technologies au service du commerce à l'échelle mondiale consistera à mettre en place une coordination internationale des politiques. Les accords commerciaux peuvent jouer un rôle primordial. En dépit des efforts actuels en vue d'introduire des dispositions relatives au commerce numérique, il subsiste nombre de possibilités inexploitées et de politiques inexplorées. Cette publication conjointe du Forum économique mondial et de l'OMC examine de quelle façon les accords commerciaux pourraient être mobilisés pour faire progresser l'adoption des technologies numériques et la numérisation du commerce.

This reprint covers 27 papers published in the Special Issue entitled Corporate Finance, Governance, and Social Responsibility, which examines several topics related to corporate finance, financial modeling, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. Corporate finance-related articles (Anton and Afloarei Nucu, 2021; Bae et al., 2023; Kedzior et al., 2020; Lts and Lukason, 2022; Miglo, 2020; Mihail et al., 2021; Mota and Moreira, 2023; Tsolas, 2021; Tudose et al., 2021; and Wen et al., 2021) focus on the drivers of the capital structure and firm performance, the effect of working capital management on profitability, and the link between derivative use and profitability. Regarding financial modeling, stock market volatility was explored during COVID-19 (Gherghina et al., 2021). Corporate governance studies (Aluchna and Kuszewski, 2020; Ararat et al., 2021; Ding and Chea, 2021; Kjrland et al., 2020; Loureno et al., 2021; Lukason and Camacho-Miano, 2020; Maier and Yurtoglu, 2022; Mihail and Dumitrescu, 2021; Mihail et al., 2022; Mihail and Micu, 2021; and Pourmansouri et al., 2022) examine the effect of corporate governance compliance practices, board attributes, or employee stock option plans on bankruptcy risk, performance, firm value, or earnings management. Regarding CSR (Bozos et al., 2022; Rossi et al., 2021; Saeed and Sroufe, 2021; Singh and Hong, 2023; and Tseng and Shih, 2022), the research focuses on how CSR affects financial performance, risk management, or analyst profits estimates.

The author of Third Party Funding in International Arbitration challenges the structural inconsistencies of the current practices of arbitration funding by arguing that third party funding should be a forum of justice, rather than a forum of profit. The author introduces a new methodology with an alternative way of structuring third party funding to solve a set of practical problems generated by the risk of claim control by the funder.

European legal protection of consumer autonomy has been significantly changed in the digital environment, where algorithm-driven systems perform everything. This book focuses on protecting consumer autonomy facing the pervasive and global phenomenon of dark patterns: the expression includes various tactics that manipulate consumers by altering online choice architecture to thwart user preferences for objectionable ends. Overloading, skipping, stirring, hindering, and flicking are examples. Moving from the perspective that the sole traditional information approach is ineffective in protecting autonomy, the adopted methodology considers the multiple concerns revolving around the tight combination of transparent information and fair digital architectural design. Consequently, the comparative study of the new suitable regulatory directions arises across different legal fields, including data protection, consumer, and competition law. The relationship between deceptive designs, the nature of human-digital architecture interaction, and the techno-legal paradigms emphasises which future changes in European private law could integrate legal rules into fair designs to protect digital consumer autonomy effectively. Specific importance will be attributed to the functionality of comparative methodology to include non-legal essential insights (e.g. behavioural, informatic elements) into pragmatic and global regulatory paths and models.

Weltweit vereinheitlichte Musterverträge bestimmen die Vertragsgestaltung im grenzüberschreitenden Finanzverkehr. Diese Musterverträge werden von privaten Organisationen wie der International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), der Loan Market Association (LMA) und der International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) geschaffen. Torsten Kindt zeigt, dass auf Grundlage der Muster ein bereichsspezifisches transnationales Vertragsrecht entsteht, das jedoch auf vielfältige Weise mit dem staatlichen Recht verwoben bleibt. Er entwickelt Leitlinien für einen responsiven Umgang mit musterbasierten transnationalen Verträgen im staatlichen Kollisions-, Vertrags- und Internationalen Zivilverfahrensrecht, die auch über den Finanzbereich hinaus zu einem produktiven Zusammenwirken privater und staatlicher Ordnung beitragen können.

In recent decades, the technical handling of custody business in the OHADA region has undergone a lasting change. There has been a shift from a direct to an indirect holding system, in which the interests of an investor in respect of the underlying securities are recorded in the books of an intermediary (such as a bank or a securities firm). Under the law of all states within the OHADA region, the traditional conflict of laws rule for determining the enforceability of a securities pledge that occurs in the indirect holding system is the lex rei sitae (or the lex cartae sitae or the lex situs ) rule. However, the traditional lex rei sitae rule cannot be appropriately applied to a system where the dematerialised securities are held through multiple layers of intermediaries located in different jurisdictions. Yet, until the intermediated system and the collateralisation of intermediated securities in the OHADA region will continue to operate in somewhat legally murky waters, leading to more instability in the financial markets. Therefore, Justin Monsenepwo aims to find an appropriate and consistent approach that reflects the reality of the indirect holding system in the OHADA region. “This publication is essential reading for policy makers, academics, market participants, and legal practitioners in the OHADA region and beyond. I am convinced that its in-depth analysis of OHADA’s substantive and conflict of laws rules will go a long way in filling the gap in this area and encouraging further development in the future.” Christophe Bernasconi, Secretary General of the „Hague Conference on Private International Law“ – HCCH in the foreword

Examining the harmonisation of Intellectual Property policy, law and administration in Africa, this book evaluates the effectiveness of efforts to establish continental Intellectual Property institutions and frameworks. It also considers sub-regional initiatives led by the regional economic communities and the regional Intellectual Property organisations, focusing on relevant protocols and agreements that address Intellectual Property as well as the implementing institutions. The book assesses the progress of such initiatives with particular reference to the current socio-economic status of African states. It argues that that harmonisation initiatives need to be crafted in a way that is supportive of the developmental goals of African states and advocates for due consideration of individual states’ unique conditions and aspirations. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in Intellectual Property law and its harmonisation in Africa.