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Did floating rate notes stopped floating? An investigation on legal impacts of negative interest rates on bond agreements and their trade
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
Most securities pay a coupon as a form of interest from the borrower to the lender. While interest rates in the Euro Area are at historical low levels, as a common market practice, fixed income bonds can yield negatively ...
Austrian citizenship for South Tyrol: Another Hungarian-Slovak tit-for-tat?
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The subject of this thesis is the question, whether Austria can provide South Tyrol or, more specifically, individual South Tyroleans with the Austrian citizenship under the terms of public International Law. The relevance ...
Public risk finance schemes in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
This thesis analyses the development and results of public risk finance schemes in Latvia and tries to answer the thesis question – can the national institutional framework of public risk finance schemes could be considered ...
Air passenger rights in European Union under Regulation 261/2004
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
This research will focus on air passenger rights in European Union. The first section will consist of exploring main legislations with respect of air carrier liability, passenger rights and international carriage by air. ...
(Un)Just war: assessing the legality of the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The multi-faction civil conflict in Yemen gained an international status on March 26, 2015 when a coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened at the request of the internationally-recognized Government of Yemen (GoY) to restore ...
Remedial secession as a federal phenomenon
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The research is specifically focused on federal states since their system of governance illustrates a symbiosis between the classical state paradigm and the autonomy of its subjects. In particular, it is argued that peoples ...
The allocation of liability in Latvian law for construction delicts: the reach for the compensation
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The theme of the thesis is the allocation of civil liability for damage caused to third parties by a structure fully or partly collapsing during the exploitation period due to errors made during the construction period ...
Acquiring a Latvian citizenship in case of a beneficiary of complimentary protection: the compatibility of Latvian law with the European and international standards
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The paper concentrates on the problem of refugee definition under international law. The main legal instrument in international law has a definition that does not cover all those who need international protection. In ...
Assessment of exclusivity rebates under the Article 102 TFEU
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The thesis discusses the European Union decisional practice towards rebates that are granted by dominant undertakings and are conditional upon its customers obtaining all or almost all of their requirements from those ...
Economic evaluation of biodiversity: importance of protection and representation, the impact of flaws of legislation and evaluation studies of the Baltic Sea
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2018)
The importance of biodiversity is undeniable. It is a supporting ecosystem service that is made up of a variety of species and underpins the environment and forms the basis for the functioning of other ecosystem services. ...