Bøker av Sue Farran

This book provides a fascinating and critical insight into familiar and less familiar mixed legal systems, taking the reader on a voyage of discovery from the islands of St Lucia and Guyana to those of Seychelles and Mauritius. It considers those mixed systems which share boundaries with unmixed ones, such as Scotland and Quebec.

A treasury of law relating to many different types of property in the South Pacific region: an area of cultural diversity, economic development and strong tradition. While land remains of key significance, other forms of property, from custom property to intellectual property, are also important.

There is considerable pressure on Small Island Developing States globally to introduce or to strengthen intellectual property regimes. This pressure comes in a number of forms, including bilateral and multilateral Free Trade Agreement negotiations and development assistance programmes such as those of the WTO.