The contributions of Foster (2005) and Halgreen (2004) are the latest in a series of debates, discussions, conferences, and academic scholarship on the subject of United States (US) and (or versus) European Union (EU) sport policy. In the context of international relations and foreign policy,...

This chapter explores various arbitration issues from East-West and common law-civil law comparative viewpoints. The term “East” refers generally to certain prominent Asian jurisdictions (e.g., China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Korea); while the “West” represents some of the major...

This article conducts an empirical research of guiding cases in China. It purposively tracks guiding cases no. four and twelve regarding intentional murders and compares with the functions of relevant judicial interpretations. It has used several tools to capture the reactions of courts through...

This note considers the decision of the Irish High Court in Re Prendiville (1992) which dealt with the enforcement of half-secret trusts. It confirms, in a case where the point arose for decision, that Irish law rejects “the prior acceptance rule” favoured in the English cases. The judgment...

Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper develops indicators of the performance and the institutional characteristics of OECD judicial systems. It provides cross-country comparisons of measures of trial length, accessibility to justice services and predictability...

The paper aims to set grounds to analyse the correlation between Development and Rule of Law indicators in Brazil, comparing Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), which are perception indicators, and GDP per capita, homicides, and child mortality, in a comparative perspective between Brazil,...

This study investigates whether culture in general and religion in particular mitigate earnings management. Using a cross-country data set, empirical tests based on rank regressions indicate that earnings management is unrelated to both religious affiliation and the degree of religiosity. In...

Trusts are an important institution to be studied in law for various reasons. Both jurisprudentially as well as from a perspective of taxation, trusts affect the making of rules. From a practical perspective, trusts are also an essential attribute for people to make things work and charitable...

The debate surrounding the relationship between patents and medical procedures is a long-standing one. The growing controversy pertaining to individual claims on medical procedures has contributed to many countries prohibiting the patenting of medical procedures, including surgical, diagnostic,...