China's transition from a planned to a market economy has been very successful, although the reforms have been quite different from those proposed by most Western observers. Despite the fact that property rights were not well defined or formally secured, and that one party dominated the...

In 2014, the constitutional law topic for the International Congress of Comparative Law was “Social and Economic Rights as Fundamental Rights.” This national report on the American system, which responds to the extensive questionnaire circulated to the national reporters, analyzes the...

From international law to national law : the opportunities and limits of contractual CSR supply chain governance / Kasey McCall-Smith and Andreas Rühmkorf -- Contractual enforcement of CSR clauses and the protection of weak parties in the supply chain / Vibe Ulfbeck, Ole Hansen, and Alexandra...