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Find out more about our expanded list of law books and journals after our recent acquisition of the specialist European law publisher, Claeys & Casteels.

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Professional Law eBooks on Elgaronline

Our professional law titles are available on a multi-user basis as part of our eBook collections that can be purchased via Elgaronline and integrated into your firm’s online library. They are also available as eBooks for individuals through Google Play, ebooks.com and other ebook vendors.

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Patent Portfolio Management

Patent Portfolio Management provides companies with an essential guide to improving the management of their patents.

The clear and succinct advice in this book will empower IP and patent departments to audit and structure the patents they own, align the patent portfolio strategy with the business and R&D strategies, and ultimately extract the most value from the patent portfolio to maximise business potential.

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GDPR for Startups and Scaleups

This book presents a step-by-step guide on how to build an effective GDPR compliance programme for your business and covers the crucial elements that businesses need to address. With particular focus on startups and scaleups, experienced data protection lawyer, Ben Martin, walks the reader through the various data protection requirements that early-stage businesses need to consider, and explains how these will develop through their growth phase.

Utilising real-life scenarios and worked examples to navigate the complex legal landscape of GDPR compliance, this handy and practical guide sets out key concepts relating to data protection and draws on a number of expert industry and legal perspectives.

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The Art Collecting Legal Handbook

The Art Collecting Legal Handbook, now in its third edition, is a cross-border legal guide to the ever-changing maze of rules and regulations when acquiring, moving, and sharing works of art and antiquities.

'The Art Collecting Legal Handbook has been a consistent source of reliable and cohesive information for my team and me, making it my recommendation to any collector or institution in need of valuable insights prior to seeking legal advice.’

– Jean Claude Gandur, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Switzerland

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Elgar Corporate and Insolvency Law and Practice series

The Elgar Corporate and Insolvency Law and Practice series is a library of works by leading practitioners and scholars covering discrete area of law in the field. Each title will be analytical in approach, highlighting and unpicking the legal issues that are most critical and relevant to practice. Designed to be detailed, focused reference works, the books in this series aim to offer an authoritative statement on the law and practice in key topics within the fields of company law, corporate governance, corporate insolvency and personal insolvency.

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Professional Law Publishing

Luke Adams, Senior Publisher and Head of Law Publishing, introduces our professional law programme and explains some of the different publishing formats we offer.

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Luke Adams

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Law (Academic & Professional)

Luke joined Elgar in 2000 as a commissioning editor, having spent the formative early part of his publishing career as an academic sales rep at Pearson Education. He began developing the Elgar law programme in…

Tony Hawitt

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Law (Professional)

Tony joined Elgar in 2017 as Professional Law Publisher with a wealth of experience, having previously spent 17 years at Jordans and before that 6 years at Sweet and Maxwell.