Biographical note: James P. Hawley, Shyam J. Kamath, and Andrew T. Williams are professors of economics and business at Saint Mary's College of California. Hawley is Director of the Elfenworks Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism. Kamath is Associate Dean and Director of Global,...

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have created a framework for environmental and social impacts, which many large institutional investors and an increasing number of corporations are using to guide their resource allocation decisions or highlight those already in place....

pt. 1, 1. Introduction to The Routledge handbook of responsible investment / Tessa Hebb. [et al.] ; 2. Setting the scene : the basics and basis of responsible investment / James P. Hawley ; 3. Is responsible investment proportionally under-researched? / Andreas G.F. Hoepner, David G. McMillan...

As a result of the current financial crisis, there have been many calls for strict new regulation of over-the-counter financial derivatives. This paper proposes, instead, that we return to the now-voided common law on derivatives and consider them non-legally enforceable gambling contracts...

When credit markets froze up in the fall of 2008, many economists pronounced the crisis both inexplicable and unforeseeable. That's because they were economists, not lawyers. Lawyers who specialize in financial regulation, and especially the small cadre who specialize in derivatives regulation,...