Ratification of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements can reduce the transaction costs and uncertainties associated with the enforcement of legal rights and obligations in international trade and investment. The most important matter which will determine whether the Convention...

Apart from the loss of time and money, disputes between public authority and private partner in China’s public-private partnership (PPP) projects are destroying the government’s image of PPP support and the private partner’s investment confidence. This article aims to explore the main...

In my experience as an expert witness for a number of excellent litigators, I find that litigators know the Rules of Civil Procedure, the Local Rules, the Rules of Evidence, and the personalities of the judges extremely well. I find that in business issues, litigators tend to use terms like...

This paper focuses on the legal transaction costs which operate as a significant non-tariff barrier to mutually beneficial exchange in trade and investment between nations. It sets out the role, functions and advantages of the international regime for commercial arbitration, based on the...

Changes in the economy, in technology and in public policy, notably the easing of exchange controls, have transformed the ease and speed with which assets, particularly liquid assets and records, can be moved and hidden in fulfillment of acts of fraud and corruption. The development of freezing...