With proponents of deregulation ascendant, both domestically and around the world, private regulation appears to be an attractive solution to a seemingly intractable problem-assuming it is or can be effective. This Article adds an important corrective to standard accounts of private legal...

By reference to a detailed analysis of recent major corruption scandals that have plagued the IOC and FIFA, this Article examines the ways in which large multi-national corporate sponsors sometimes exercise private regulatory authority in the international sports arena. Through their contract...

In groundbreaking and award-winning research, social scientists have documented the power of small groups to manage common pool resources (CPRs). That research concludes that collective or communal ownership of CPRs may be optimal in certain circumstances. While group- and community-level rights...