Small States in a Legal World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. 2015 Keynote Lecture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Small Pacific Island States and the Catastrophe of Climate Change

      • Geoffrey Palmer

      Pages 3-20

3. Small States: Challenges and Adventures in Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Competition Law and Policy in Small States

      • Lino Briguglio

      Pages 23-34

   3. Small States in the UNSC and the EU: Structural Weaknesses and Ability to Influence

      • Baldur Thorhallsson

      Pages 35-64

   4. The Impact of EU Law in Luxembourg: Does Size Matter?

      • Michèle Finck

      Pages 65-85

   5. The Taxation of Small States and the Challenge of Commonality

      • Ann Mumford

      Pages 87-99

   6. The Ongoing Legal Status of Low-Lying States in the Climate-Changed Future

      • Alberto Costi, Nathan Jon Ross

      Pages 101-138

   7. Small States, Colonial Rule and Democracy

      • Derek O’Brien

      Pages 139-163

   8. Legal Pluralism and Politics in Samoa: The Faamatai, Monotaga and the Samoa Electoral Act 1963

      • Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni

      Pages 165-187

4. The Legal Profession in Small States: Education, Practice and Regulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Legal Education and the Profession in Three Mixed/Micro Jurisdictions: Malta, Jersey, and Seychelles

      • Seán Patrick Donlan, David Marrani, Mathilda Twomey, David Edward Zammit

      Pages 191-212

   3. On Law, Legal Elites and the Legal Profession in a (Biggish) Small State: Cyprus

      • Nikitas E. Hatzimihail

      Pages 213-244

   4. Choices for the South Pacific Region’s Bar Associations and Law Societies?

      • Nilesh N. Bilimoria

      Pages 245-264

This book is a unique collection of high quality articles analysing legal issues with particular regard to small states. The small states of the world differ considerably in their geography, history, political structures, legal systems and wealth. Nevertheless, because of their size, small states face a set of common challenges including vulnerability to external economic impacts such as changing trade regimes and limited ability to diversify economic activity; limited public and private sector capacity, including the legal and judicial infrastructure; a need for regional co-operation; a vulnerability to environmental changes as well as a limited ability to engage with supranational bodies and the forces of globalisation. This is the first volume of an exciting and unique new series, The World of Small States. In this work, legal experts from small jurisdictions and those with a particular interest in legal issues facing small states explore inter alia ethics in small jurisdictions, legal education and the profession in small states, the challenges facing small states with mixed legal systems, the constitutional arrangements in small states, small states as tax havens, and intellectual property and competition law issues.

• Sustainable development of small islands
• Small States
• Developing states
• Centre for small states
• The Seychelles
• Cyprus
• Pacific Island Countries
• Luxembourg
• The Caribbean
• Palestine
• climate change impacts

• Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  Petra Butler

• School of Law, Queen Mary University of London , London, United Kingdom

  Caroline Morris

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