From the Publisher:
Steganography, a means by which two or more parties may communicate using "invisible" or "subliminal" communication, and watermarking, a means of hiding copyright data in images, are becoming necessary components of commercial multimedia applications that are subject to illegal use. This new book is the first comprehensive survey of steganography and watermarking and their application to modern communications and multimedia. 

Handbook of Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking helps you understand steganography, the history of this previously neglected element of cryptography, the hurdles of international law on strong cryptographic techniques, a description of possible applications, and a survey of the methods you can use to hide information in modern media. Included in this discussion is an overview of "steganalysis," methods which can be used to break steganographic communication.

This comprehensive resource also includes an introduction to and survey of watermarking methods, and discusses this method's similarities and differences to steganography. You gain a working knowledge of watermarking's pros and cons, and you learn the legal implications of watermarking and copyright issues on the Internet.

Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking

Le déni de justice en droit international privé

Financial crimes have become one of the most destructive types of crime in post-industrial societies in terms of economic and financial consequences. While the importance of financial institutions in the modern economic system cannot be negated, their critical function in the society with their enormous powers brings about many questions, especially in relation to systems of checks and balances. The increasing number of adverse examples in the last decades provide evidence for the enormous negative consequences of corporate failures resulting from shortcomings in the checks and balances. This study, hence, is motivated by the current financial failures, and aims at exploring and examining financial crimes in terms of the process of becoming a financial white-collar criminal in various financial systems, namely capitalist, socialist and Islamic systems, as well as exploring the vulnerability and propensity of each system in relation to financial crimes. In addition, this study, departing from the shortcomings of Eurocentric understanding and referring to cultural and religious norms, aims to re-conceptualise some of the concepts, subcategories and dimensions with the objective of developing and theorising an improved version of rational choice theory in criminology for a better comparison.
In fulfilling the aims of the study, a discourse analysis approach through a deconstruction method is utilised to locate and identify the underpinnings of the existing theoretical frameworks through comparative case study as a method, by comparing extreme cases of market/capitalist finance, socialist/transitional and Islamic/moral finance. In addition, grounded theory is used as a method to construct a modified version of the existing theories by using a number of formal codes such as ‘motivation’, ‘environment’, ‘target’, ‘guardian’ as concepts and ‘opportunity spaces’, ‘real, perceived selves’, ‘ideal and feared’, ‘need and guarding gaps’, ‘haste’, ‘expectations’, ‘deviance’, ‘crime motivation’, ‘act of crime’ etc. as subcategories and ‘material’, ‘social’ and ‘moral’ as dimensions. 
Such an attempt is rationalised on the ground that the current criminology theories are unfortunately linear theories and they do not make decisions about a regular person. Therefore, there is no crime theory that is confident enough to receive a regular person and make dynamic, relativist, complex analysis about them in prospect, depending on the changing conditions of the inner and outer world of the individual, unlike the ‘complex theory of crime’ produced by this research through grounded theory.
A comparative analysis to order the financial systems according to their vulnerability to financial crimes is also provided in this study using the ‘opportunity spaces’ concept of the grounded theory which develops the classical ‘opportunity’ argument of the rational choice theory to almost a small theory of opportunity. This analysis suggests that the most vulnerable financial system to financial crime is the market based financial system, which is followed by socialist/transitional and Islamized financial systems. The comparative analysis of the study on crime propensities of financial systems also confirms the literature on economic and financial systems that argues that the financial systems are converging despite their strong and distinctive ontological and epistemological differences and capacities to enrich and improve each other.
The theoretical model developed in this study reveals that crime motivation is only an extension of ordinary motivation and has a dynamic nature. Dynamic in both the micro world of the individual and his/her close social/physical environment and also the macro environment in terms of the wider space of political-economy and social culture.
This study fills an important gap in criminology literature which has been sought for decades since the 1970s. Indeed, the resultant theory in this study is unique in its approach because it is a micro-founded macro theory, unlike all the criminology theories which have either micro (biological, psychological theories, control theories) or macro (i.e. symbolic interactions, social bonds theory, life-course theory, conflict theory) foundations.

Theoretising the foundational concepts of the process of financial crimes in comparative economic systems : an attempt in grounded theory

In Third Party Funding, Gian Marco Solas, for the first time, describes third party funding (TPF) as stand-alone practice within the wider litigation and legal services' markets. The book reports on legal issues related to TPF in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, and in the international context. It then discusses the incentives and economics of TPF transactions in different legal contexts while explaining how the practice emerged and how it is likely to develop. In addition, the book offers practical insights into TPF transactions and analyzes a number of regulatory proposals that could affect its use and desirability. This work should be read by scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone else interested in how TPF is changing the practice of law.

Third Party Funding: Law, Economics and Policy

Competition law damages actions are often characterized by the uncertainty of the causal connection between the infringement and the harm. The damage consists in a pure economic loss flowing from an anticompetitive conduct. In such cases, the complexity of the markets structures, combined with the interdependence of individuals' assets, fuel this causal uncertainty. In this work, Claudio Lombardi elucidates the concept of causation in competition law damages actions and outlines its practical implications in competition litigation through the comparative analysis of the relevant statutory and case law, primarily in the European Union. This book should be read by practitioners, scholars, and graduate students with experience in competition law, as well as those interested in analyzing economic torts and causation in general.

Causation in Competition Law Damages Actions

Convergence and Divergence within the EU's Supranational Competition Law Framework

The Antitrust Damages Directive: Facilitating Private Damages Actions in the EU?

Article 267 TFEU (ex Art 234 EC) facilitates a dialogue between the national courts and the CJEU (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Court’) in order to allow national courts to seek guidance on the appropriate interpretation of EU law principles in a particular legal dispute, and from an EU perspective this process seek to enhance the uniform and consistent interpretation of EU law throughout the national courts. The importance of the Article 267 preliminary ruling procedure in developing key principles of EU law, has been stressed on numerous occasions, and in a competition law context, it has been noted that “the preliminary reference procedure has had a disproportionately significant impact on the substantive development of EU competition law.” The significance of the preliminary ruling procedure for EU competition law was clearly demonstrated by my earlier work in this area in Article 234 and Competition Law: An Analysis which provided an analysis of all of the competition-law related rulings by the Court of Justice to 1st May 2004 and this was followed by work which gave an overview of preliminary rulings between 1 May 2004 and end November 2011. This article seeks to update this earlier research and in particular ascertain to what extent the competition law preliminary ruling practice has evolved since the introduction of Regulation 1/2003 and the decentralised context generally for the enforcement of EU competition law.

Competition law preliminary rulings: a quantitative and qualitative overview post regulation 1/2003

The author has undertaken research in recent years to attempt to provide a comprehensive account, over various periods, of all competition law litigation in the UK courts, involving the application of both EU and UK competition law, and was also principal Investigator on a wider AHRC funded project on competition case-law in the courts of all EU Member States between 1999-2012. The latter revealed interesting data and trends on competition litigation in the UK and across the EU. However, it has always been recognised that competition law disputes which are made visible by the existence of court judgments, and especially by final substantive judgments on the merits, are likely to be the ‘tip of the iceberg’. This was the rationale which underlay an earlier project by the author to collect information on the number and types of competition law settlements which took place between 2000 and 2005 in the UK, and sought to identify and inform about the ‘hidden story’ of settlement practice in the UK. The limited publicly available information in the UK can be contrasted with the USA, where there is considerably more antitrust litigation, a number of aspects of the litigation process have been considered and resolved, and where there is also more evidence of antitrust litigation settlement practice and outcomes. This article provides an account of a follow-up research project on competition litigation settlements in the UK, in relation to the period 2008-2012, comprising an extensive and focused analysis of the data accumulated in relation to the reported settlements during that period.

Private enforcement of competition law, the hidden story part II: competition litigation settlements in the UK, 2008-2012

This book considers important trends and issues affecting Competition Law in the UK. "The reader will find not merely a detailed account of competition law in the UK over the last 10 years, in all its many facets, but considerable insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the UK system, and some interesting pointers for the future." - Sir Christopher Bellamy. 'Ten Years of UK Competition Law Reform' is an invaluable text for students, academics and those working within the legal profession. 1 The Role of the OFT in UK Competition Law (Richard Whish) 2 The Early Case Law of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (David Bailey) 3 UK Competition Law and Private Litigation (Barry J Rodger) 4 The Consistency Principle: Section 60 of the Competition Act 1998 (Ben Rayment) 5 A Welfare-Based Competition Policy under Structuralist Constraints: Abuse of Dominance and OFT Practice (Renato Nazzini) 6 Utilities Regulators and the Competition Act 1998 (Georgio Monti) 7 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Market Investigations and the Consumer Interest (Christian Ahlborn and Daniel Piccinin) 8 The Competition Commission, Merger Control and the SLC Test (Nigel Parr) 9 Economic Analysis in UK Competition Law after CA 1998 (Morten Hviid) 10 Outgrowing the European Administrative Model? Ten Years of British Anti-Cartel Enforcement (Alan Riley) 11 The Cartel Offence: Is Honesty the Best Policy? (Angus MacCulloch) Tables and an index are included.

Barry Rodger

Papers

Convergence and Divergence within the EU's Supranational Competition Law Framework

The Antitrust Damages Directive: Facilitating Private Damages Actions in the EU?

Competition law preliminary rulings: a quantitative and qualitative overview post regulation 1/2003

Private enforcement of competition law, the hidden story part II: competition litigation settlements in the UK, 2008-2012

Ten years of UK competition law reform