The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the She oil company, through investment and crude oil exploration, benefits socio-economic growth in Nigeria in general and in the Niger Delta of Nigeria in particular. In 1998, the United Nations Special Rapporteur's report on Nigeria accused...

This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...

English Abstract: This article aims to describe and analyze Israel’s public procurement regime, including its system for judicial review, with a special emphasis on its international and comparative aspects. It discusses the history and origins of Israel’s public procurement law, while...

Press reports of military procurement fraud investigations, indictments, and suspensions are associated with significantly negative average abnormal returns in the stocks of affected firms. Abnormal stock returns are significantly less negative, however, for firms ranking among the Top 100...

While much has been written about how anti-money laundering laws might be used to prevent or uncover official corruption there has been little empirical analysis of actual cases. Such an examination suggests that there are a number of recurring patterns of corruption that do not involve cash....

This study contributes to the understanding of the causal relationship between gang culture, criminality and corruption in Nigeria universities where both criminality and corruption are very high complementary variables. Writers on gang culture in Nigeria universities have largely omitted the...

Through analysis of two recent cases, one Israeli and one British this paper advances a deliberative paradigm with which to understand emerging global, meta-constitutional norms, such as prohibition against torture, enforced through transitional adjudication. More specifically, this paper...

At the beginning of the second millennium, there was no separation of church and state, and kings ruled the church. Tyrannicide was considered sinful. By the end of the thirteenth century, however, everything had changed. The Little Renaissance that began in the eleventh century led to a...