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International Handbook of Cooperative Law

  • Fills a gap in legal scholarship

  • Legal scholars from 30 countries and five continents jointly contribute to a unique book which presents and describes in the same context and in the same language their national cooperative laws, provides the reader with common concepts and terminology, and shows existing trends in cooperative law

  • Represents a fundamental instrument for training and research, especially comparative, in the area of cooperative law

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Understanding Cooperatives and Cooperative Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. An Introduction to Cooperative Law

      • Antonio Fici
      Pages 3-62
  3. The Convergence of Cooperative Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Public International Cooperative Law

      • Hagen Henrÿ
      Pages 65-88
    3. The OHADA Cooperative Regulation

      • David Hiez, Willy Tadjudje
      Pages 89-113
    4. The European Cooperative Society Regulation

      • Antonio Fici
      Pages 115-151
    5. The Statute of Mercosur Cooperatives

      • Dante Cracogna
      Pages 153-164
  4. Cooperative Law: An International Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Argentina

      • Dante Cracogna
      Pages 189-206
    3. Australia

      • Troy Sarina
      Pages 207-229
    4. Austria

      • Georg Miribung, Elisabeth Reiner
      Pages 231-250
    5. Belgium

      • Astrid Coates
      Pages 251-269
    6. Brazil

      • Adriano Campos Alves
      Pages 271-288
    7. Canada

      • Timothy Petrou
      Pages 289-316
    8. Chile

      • Jaime Alcalde Silva
      Pages 317-337
    9. China

      • Dapeng Ren, Peng Yuan
      Pages 339-353
    10. Colombia

      • Antonio José Sarmiento Reyes
      Pages 355-371
    11. Finland

      • Hagen Henrÿ
      Pages 373-392

About this book

The degree of development reached by cooperatives of different sectors throughout the world, which among others led to the UN declaring 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, needs to be accompanied by a similar development of corresponding legislation. To this end, a better knowledge of cooperative law from the comparative point of view, as has already been established for other types of enterprises, becomes of great importance. This book strives to fill this gap, and is divided into four parts. The first part offers an analytic and conceptual framework with which to understand, study and assess cooperative law from a transnational and comparative perspective. The second part includes several chapters dealing with attempts to harmonize cooperative laws. The third part contains an overview of more than 30 national cooperative laws, while the last part summarizes and compares these national cooperative laws, thus laying the foundation for a comparative cooperative law doctrine.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Dante Cracogna

  • University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

    Antonio Fici

  • University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Hagen Henrÿ

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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