After decades of debate, new global norms are emerging in the field of human rights that clearly define a company's social responsibility. The UN and the OECD have adopted these new standards which impose a due diligence duty on companies to avoid human rights abuses related to the corporate...

Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize...

Underlying several theories of European integration is the idea that countries' willingness to sign-up to supranational rules is dependent on the expectation and/or realisation of various benefits. In this paper, we explore whether such benefits also affect member states' implementation of these...

Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize...

The complex bananas litigation could serve as a course in international economic law, as it raises a rich set of issues that arise in a highly contentious circumstance and present difficult issues of legal policy. At the core of this litigation is the question of compliance with law. This...

People who receive a “compliance order” from the Environmental Protection Agency, directing them to alter their property to bring it in compliance with EPA regulations, face a Hobson's choice. The EPA claims the order does not have actual legal force, which means the EPA does not offer an...