This project presents six years of hand-collected federal district court data to analyze the first representative sample of veil piercing litigation. Our method identifies veil piercing complaints through Westlaw's trial pleadings database and codes each case through a detailed examination of...

Tribunals in international arbitration are regularly asked by claimants to award prejudgment interest. Unless foreclosed by an agreement between the parties, there is widespread agreement prejudgment interest should put the claimant in the same position as it would have been had it not been...

According to the Monetary Gold principle, the the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will not exercise its jurisdiction where the legal interests of a third state ‘would form the very subject-matter of the decision'. This principle has been interpreted narrowly by the ICJ and therefore only...

Unanticipated consequences -- Bounded rationality and the spread of investment treaties -- A difficult beginning -- Promoting investment treaties -- A less then rational competition -- Narcissistic learning -- Letting down the guard : a case study -- Expanding the bounds of rationality in the...

Intellectual property rights--copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and related rights--have become increasingly important with the advent of increased international trade, global and knowledge-based economy and fast developing technology. A strong intellectual property rights regime...

Seit fast zehn Jahren ist die WTO mit dem Streit zwischen Airbus und Boeing beschäftigt. Jede Seite hält die Subventionspraktiken der jeweils anderen Seite für unlauter. Dieser nicht enden wollende Streit bindet nicht nur Ressourcen bei den beiden Flugzeugbauern und ist mit erheblichen Kosten...

The subject of this paper is Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the United States, a statute that for the past 35 years has allowed the U.S. to unilaterally handle its trade disputes. More specifically, the paper examines the constraining and supporting effects of the multilateral trading...