Review: The present article deals with the comparative legal analysis of the legislative approaches to the conflict of laws problem with regard to the intermediated securities. The author scrutinizes the distinct features of relations between the main participants of the indirect holding system, analyzes the doctrinal approaches in this sphere of conflict of laws, examines the legal regulations of various jurisdictions (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States), as well as the European Union law. It also provides an overview of the Hague Convention 2002 on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary

Keywords: comparative law, securities, conflict of laws, intermediary, securities account, EU Directives, PRIMA

Contact information: Vygovsky Alexander Igorevich, aleks5@ukr.net

Review: Actual problems of legal regulation of basic elements of insurance legal relation under the legislation of Germany are investigated in the article. The material is stated with prospect of use of positive experience of Germany for the further development of the legislation about insurance and insurance supervision in the Russian Federation

Keywords: Basic elements of insurance legal relation under the legislation of Germany, a legal status of the insurer and the insured, the insurance agreement, the rights and the responsibilities arising from insurance legal relations, insurance intermediary

Contact information: Emelyantsev Vladimir Petrovich, 6430668@mail.ru

Review: The work covers the problems of efficiency of securing of personal non–property interest of author of creation in the system of copyright. On the base of analysis of both traditional means of securing of such interest and the means that emerged in the result of reform of 1988 the work provides a number of general conclusions regarding the nature of individual non–property rights, the oportunities to execute these rights and also the process of involvement of values, which earlier have been deemed as personal non–property ones, into the property turnover

Keywords: copyright, intellectual property, result of intellectual activity, intellectual rights, personal non–property rights, exclusive rights, author’s rights, object of copyright

Contact information: Kashanin Andrei Vasil'evich, kashanin.andrey@mtu–net.ru

Review: In the article legal consequences of transfer of company’s registered office, administrative centre and main place of business on the base of the practice of the ECJ is examined. The author reveals essential changes in the EC law in the sphere in connection with decisions of the ECJ in cases Centros, Überseering and Inspire Art. It is shown in the article, that by virtue of stated decisions EC member-states had to initiate modification of “real seat” theory or change it into incorporation theory with its special form. The author reveals the development of law and practice of France, Germany, Austria and Belgium. Moreover, it is shown that the ECJ decision in Cartesio case did not lead to the alteration of the EC law on the question of retaining personality of a company in its state of registration when transferring its seat.
Keywords: comparative law, modification, “real seat” theory, EC law

Contact information: Manukyan Mushi Avetikovich, jzsh@izak.ru

Review: The article deals with the issues of harmonization of legislations regulating the securities markets within the framework of regional international organizations. It covers the main aspects of the issues, offerings and trading in securities, regulated by the EU Directives, scrutinizes the activities of the Eurasian Economic Community and IOSCO in the said sphere, summarizes the results of the harmonization processes up to now. The article would be of interest for the lawyers specializing in European and International Law, legal regulation of securities markets, as well as all those who are interested in the harmonization and unification issues in securities regulation.
Key words: Comparative legislation, securities, harmonisation, EU Directives, Eurasian Economic Community, IOSCO, unification, globalisation, regional integration, issuer
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Contact information: Vygovskyy Alexandr Igorevich, aleks5@ukr.net

Review: The article deals with approaches of antimonopoly enforcement bodies of MERCOSUR (Southern Common Market) countries to the mechanism of control over reorganization of legal persons by means of fusion and incorporation. The author considers the main idea of such a control is to prevent “excessive” concentration as long as it results badly in economic and social sphere and the said influence exceeds it`s positive effect. Special attention is given to normative acts on protection of competition of Argentine, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay etc.
Key words: comparative law, MERCOSUR, Southern Common Market, competition protection, “economic concentrations”, control over fusions of undertaking, reorganization of legal persons, EU

Contact information: Belikova Ksenia Mikhailovna, jzsp@izak.ru

Review: Financial leasing contracts as one the forms of investment activities are broadly applied in the Commonwealth of Independent States. And as any investment activity, they causes many risks. The refore, it is necessary to provide for their insurance. The author compares legal norms and practice of their application in different states of the Commonwealth

Review: The author analyses the development of legislation of states of Eastern Europe on business partnerships, compares different forms of corporate persons. Special attention is paid to legal experience of Hungary which is not familiar to vast majority of readers.

Review: The article shows in comparative perspective the development of legislation on consumers protection in Belarus and the Russian Federation. The author analyses positive and certain negative implications of legal regulation in this sphere, singles out legal models and solutions which may be used for its improvement

Review: In the article the author describes main features and peculiarities of tort liability in the United States, shows that it serves different goals: compensating damages, protecting property, preventing illegal acts and so on

Review: The author studies the legal status of boards of directors of Russian share holding companies from the standpoint of their conformity to the requirements of stock exchange markets in two most attractive regions for Russian investments, the USA and the European Union.

Review: The author analyses the issues of labor law which are not well developed. The author's conclusions may be used for improving Russian labor law in this sphere.

Review: The article contains comparative analysis of legislation on self-regulating organizations, shows the present state of appropriate legislation in Russia and the prospects of its future development.

Review: The article focuses on acute issues of settling collisions between private and public interests in the sphere of construction business