Discussion of the territorial scope of the New Zealand Wages Protection Act in Mehta v Elliot (Labour Inspector). The authors argue that the territorial scope of all New Zealand statutes should be addressed by Parliament as a matter of course. As Judge Colgan pointed out in Mehta, this issue...

Africa has an important role to play in a globalized world. However, as Africa moves into the playing field, most of its value systems and legal heritage are getting weather-beaten as African governments throw in the towel to forces of Western civilization and globalization. It is discernible...

This Essay contributed to a symposium hosted by the Texas A&M School of Law’s Journal of Property Law in fall 2020, on Kenneth Stahl’s new book Local Citizenship in a Global Age. Local Citizenship in a Global Age reports thoroughly and insightfully on some developments that have been...

Since the advent of state sovereignty with the Peace of Westphalia, powerful Western nations have determined and applied international law in a manner that advance their national interests. In short, the international legal process has been a mechanism of hegemony, and powerful Western nations...

This paper analyses what the decision in Bolagsupplysningen and Ilsjan (C-194/16) means for transborder intellectual property infringement disputes. In this case, the Court of Justice of the European Union extended “the centre of interests” basis of jurisdiction under Art. 7(2) of EU...

This paper discusses the importance of well-functioning judicial institutions for economic growth. Institutions that show a wide range of variation across countries, in their characteristics and quality. In a highly integrated world, these cross-country variations have relevant implications for...

This legal contribution reflects on the changing role of central banks in the global economy by observing three interconnected developments: globalization, regionalization and the global financial crisis. The hypothesis at the outset is that these developments which are to a considerable extent...

While only several decades ago, the idea of corporate social responsibility was not trivial, it seems that most scholars today understand that corporations owe special commitments to their stakeholders which go beyond common regulatory and conventional requirements in promoting the community in...

In a world where people have the same needs and aspirations to have their data protected, companies have the same need to have clear and homogeneous rules, governments have the same need to guarantee efficient data flows between countries and administrations, a global convergence on data...