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"This book provides an analysis of the European policy approach to combined heat and power (CHP), a highly efficient technology used by all EU Member States for the needs of generating electricity and heat. European Law on Combined Heat and Power carries out an assessment of the European legal and policy measures on CHP, evaluating how it has changed over the years through progress and decline in specific member states. Over the course of the book, Sokołowski explores all aspects of CHP, examining the types of measures used to steer the growth of cogeneration in the EU and the policies and regulatory tools that have influenced its development. He also assesses the specific role of CHP in the liberalisation of the internal energy market and EU action on climate and sustainability. Finally, by delivering his notions of 'cogenatives', 'cogenmunities', or 'Micro-Collective-Flexible-Smart-High-Efficiency cogeneration', Sokołowski considers how the new EU energy package - 'Clean energy for all Europeans' - will shape future developments. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy law and regulation, combined heat and power and energy efficiency, as well as policy makers and energy experts working in the CHP sector"--

Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of social and legal components in developing self-regulationinstitution of construction activities. The article notes that self-regulating organizations in the field of construction perform a number of important functions that have a social orientation (regulatory, security, control and security, information). They, as well as other functions named in the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law "On Self-Regulatory Organizations", are subordinate to the main objectives of the activities of self-regulatory organizations in the construction field. At the same time, the goals of creating self-regulating organizations in the construction field specified in the legislation affect the legal assessment of functional purpose of these organizations. Based on a comparative legal analysis of domestic legislation and foreign countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, the authors draw conclusions about changing (reducing) the role of public authorities in performing social and public functions, and about tendency of involving the professional associations of entrepreneurs in this area. As a result of this study, the article authors reveal the positive dynamics of the development of social and legal components of the institute of self-regulation of construction activities in Russia. The article summarizes that self-regulating organizations should be considered as a legal model for the introduction and development of social entrepreneurship in the construction industry.Key words: social and legal component, self-regulation institute, self-regulating organization, constructionactivity.

Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of social and legal components in developing self-regulationinstitution of construction activities. The article notes that self-regulating organizations in the field of construction perform a number of important functions that have a social orientation (regulatory, security, control and security, information). They, as well as other functions named in the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law "On Self-Regulatory Organizations", are subordinate to the main objectives of the activities of self-regulatory organizations in the construction field. At the same time, the goals of creating self-regulating organizations in the construction field specified in the legislation affect the legal assessment of functional purpose of these organizations. Based on a comparative legal analysis of domestic legislation and foreign countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, the authors draw conclusions about changing (reducing) the role of public authorities in performing social and public functions, and about tendency of involving the professional associations of entrepreneurs in this area. As a result of this study, the article authors reveal the positive dynamics of the development of social and legal components of the institute of self-regulation of construction activities in Russia. The article summarizes that self-regulating organizations should be considered as a legal model for the introduction and development of social entrepreneurship in the construction industry.Key words: social and legal component, self-regulation institute, self-regulating organization, constructionactivity.

Widespread skepticism about the adequacy of existing law to achieve justice poses one of the most serious problems to the legal profession. The practicing lawyer knows that in most instances existing law is reasonably efficient in achieving sound, just results, but to the uninitiated the instance in which the efficiency is small or the result unjust appears to be the usual circumstance rather than the unusual. Even the informed layman is likely to be more concerned with the inadequacies of present law than with its adequacies, and admitting the extent of skepticism to be unwarranted, still asks, "Why don't the lawyers do something about these inadequacies?" This article conforms closely to the remarks of the writer to the Seattle Bar Association at its luncheon, February 20, 1952.