On September 9, 2008, in Joined Cases C-120/06 P and C-121/06 P FIAMM and Giorgio Fedon & Figli v Council and Commission, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed appeals by two Italian companies seeking compensation for damages caused after the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) authorized...

‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’ asked the Roman poet Juvenal - ‘who will watch the watchers, who will guard the guardians?’ As legislative and regulatory processes around the globe progressively put greater emphasis on impact assessment and accountability, we ask: who oversees the...

The aim of this independent report commissioned by the EU Commission is to inform the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment negotiations on enhanced regulatory coherence and cooperation. It provides negotiators, stakeholders and the public with a comparative overview of the US and EU...

This paper uses neo-institutional economics (I.E.) to examine why French film production firms have lost their competitive advantage to their American competitors from 1895 to 1998. I.E. posits that major institutional changes result in changes in firms' strategic assets and strategies as well...