International law is not known for being quick or effective. Cases can drag on for years, have limited legal force, and are infamous for noncompliance. Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement process had served as a beacon of hope for being one of the fastest and...

Settlements among parties are usually regarded as an efficient solution to a judicial dispute. However, frequent settlements between the rich and the poor can also mean unequal access to justice. We develop a model of settlements that takes wealth disparity of the parties into account, as the...

The paper argues that doctrinal changes in the enforcement of FCPA actions have led to an ignoring of the corporate form and suggests that a more structured approach would lead to fairer outcomes and achieve the goals the FCPA was designed for

U.S. policy concerning international justice, particularly at the ICC, involves case-by-case support when such support is in U.S. national interests. This policy signals that the U.S. considers itself a supranational justice donor rather than a member of a global justice community committed to...

In this review, the author considers the collection by U.S.-based juvenile justice scholars on legal and policy frameworks across various international juvenile justice systems. The author analyses the conceptual discussion of the themes of each chapter. These include juvenile justice in Western...

Are federal prosecutors influenced by partisan political concerns? We examine this question by analyzing forty years of federal corruption convictions at the state and federal district levels. Our key finding is that state-level corruption convictions fall by 8% in years when a state’s...

Fines and damages are the principal sanctions of criminal, civil and regulatory law. Yet in law it does not matter who pays money sanctions. Damages overwhelmingly are paid by insurers and the cost of insurance premiums loaded into commodity prices and thus dispersed among consumers. Fines are...

Some see criminal law as essentially or predominately an exercise in retributive justice. And some see private law as essentially or predominantly an exercise in corrective justice. There is considerable discussion of the relation between retributive and distributive justice in criminal law...