There is widespread agreement that law firms have embraced globalization, but what this means and why it matters are subjects still cloaked with uncertainty. Do law firms follow the models and processes of globalization characteristic of other businesses? Or are law firms forced to take a...

Anti-suit injunctions (ASIs) have recently emerged as a phenomenon significantly affecting the dynamics of standard essential patent (SEP) litigation. The enhanced role played by these patents in the Internet of Things scenario and the willingness of national courts to set themselves up as...

Courts apply a number of doctrines, including the conduct and effects test, in determining how far to extend jurisdiction in securities class actions involving transnational securities fraud. Courts often focus on whether foreign jurisdictions will recognize a U.S. class action judgment and the...

The notion of a transnational law has been under dispute for several decades. After Philip Jessup in his widely-known Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School had coined the phrase in 1956, it has been used in numerous contexts. One of the most influential narratives of...

This chapter, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law, situates corporations and corporate law theory within the nascent New Private Law movement. Most theorists allied to the New Private Law focus on fundamental private law and so, in turn, bodies of law addressed to singular...

Regelungen zur Hinzurechnungsbesteuerung finden sich gegenwärtig in mehr als 30 Staaten. Wenngleich die Regelungen länderübergreifend einem einheitlichen Grundmuster sowie einer einheitlichen legislatorischen Grundwertung folgen, zeigen sich im Detail mitunter entscheidende Unterschiede...

Regelungen zur Hinzurechnungsbesteuerung finden sich gegenwärtig in mehr als 30 Staaten. Wenngleich die Regelungen länderübergreifend einem einheitlichen Grundmuster sowie einer einheitlichen legislatorischen Grundwertung folgen, zeigen sich im Detail mitunter entscheidende Unterschiede...

Globalisation has reorganised the social and economic aspects of the present society through the integration of national economies due to technological innovation, freer trade and legal harmonisation. The process of economic globalisation has expanded the corporate power to almost every part of...