The article considers initiatives to regulate disarmament focusing on an indirect component of peace. Taking chosen public international law conventions on disarmament into account, it explores ways to deal with and prevent the risk of adverse impact of business activities on human rights. It...

Socially Responsible Investment - in particular Environmental Social Governance issues (ESG) including human rights - is becoming a crucial issue. Although not a new concept, the integration of ESG and human rights factors into investment decisions remains a challenge. Given recent corporate...

This paper explores the role played by indicators in relation to the protection of the environment. It tries to seize the potential they offer to steer global environmental issues. Indeed, indicators are a salient mean to quantify, measure and assess all kind of developments. Designed by either...

The financial crisis is a challenge for global regulatory governance. Indeed the crisis is a very interesting case study to understand how regulation evolves and institutional transformation occurs. The issue is addressed taking legal, public policy, and international relations aspects into...

Currently, the regulation of hedge funds, private equity and sovereign wealth funds is lively debated. The activities developed by these investment vehicles on the financial markets are linked to the 2007-2009 financial crisis. While hedge funds are considered to have represented a cause of the...

During the G20-meeting of April 2009 it was agreed that all systemically important financial institutions, markets, and instruments should be subject to an appropriate degree of regulation and oversight. SWFs are important financial market participants. Economic studies assert that SWFs will...

The purpose of the book is to approach those forms of regulation that are different from state regulation or non-state regulatory regimes. To take the reader through the issues raised by these regimes, the study is cross-disciplinary encompassing various perspectives be they legal, political,...

The interest in decentralizing governance increases worldwide. In Europe too, a policy of decentralization is being applied. In economic law, in both the cases of competition and financial services law, new rules are in the process of being introduced. In competition law, the Regulation on the...

The interest in decentralizing governance is increasing worldwide. In Europe too, a policy of decentralization is being applied. In economic law, notably in both the cases of competition and financial services law, new rules are in the process of being introduced. In competition law, the...