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Balancing the property right of forest owners and the right to healthy environment in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
Strong and reliable right in property has not only been one of the cornerstones of a democratic capitalistic society, but also the provider of confidence for development in forest investment and sustainable management. ...
Protecting 3D service marks in the EU: the trademark registration dilemma
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The thesis aims to illuminate the ill-defined requirements and their theoretical applicability of registering a three-dimensional service mark consisting of a store layout in the wake of the Apple judgement in 2014, granting ...
The protection of minority shareholders during delisting in Germany and in the U.K.
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The thesis seeks to compare the protection of minority shareholders during delisting in Germany and in the UK. Delisting refers to a publicly traded company leaving the stock market. In order to compare the protection ...
The GAAR of the ATAD: implications on taxpayer rights and access to the fundamental freedoms associated with lack of legal certainty
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
This contribution is a body of doctrinal research, which endeavours to establish whether the GAAR can be effective in both discouraging illegitimate tax avoidance and upholding the rule of law sufficiently to not undermine ...
Legal and ethical issues designing online courts
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The thesis explores and analyzes how can online courts be best designed to serve the needs of a modern society with different norms and requirements from our current ones and whether the current online courts performing a ...
The internationally uniform courtroom application of Article 39 (1) CISG
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
This work briefly introduces the CISG as such, describing its history and goals, as well as the objectives, application and exceptions of Article 39 (1) of CISG in terms of the concept of “reasonable time” and how this ...
Legal regulation of contractual relations during sea transportation of hydrocarbons
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
This paper focuses on the main legal issues, including the contractual aspect of transporting hydrocarbons as dangerous goods by sea. The growing cargo turnover from year to year, as well as the features and high risk of ...
Residential tenancy as a viable substitute to home-ownership in Latvia
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
In light of the high rates of owner-occupancy and the view of residential tenancy being an inferior type of tenure, the Latvian government for the past decade has tried to implement a new regulation for residential tenancy ...
The definition of cryptocurrency and mining for the purposes of tax regulation
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The work aims to determine the main problems and gaps in cryptocurrency and mining taxation with the aim of proposing an effective hypothetical model of tax regulation for the hypothetical country in which it is absent. ...
The regulation of franchise agreements in the Baltic states
(Riga Graduate School of Law, 2020)
The number of franchises sold by local Baltic companies is gradually increasing hence it is important to determine whether the existing legal environment satisfies the development of franchising in the Baltic states. The ...